Doesn’t this take up quite a lot of bandwidth if you have a lot of viewers?

I'm trying to open your link but I get a Lemmy page saying this link does not exist. Is it a voyager app thing?

Advertising, yes but in this case I'll allow it

This is Kumail Nanjiani's best work.

Doesn't work on Twitch for me (using Firefox). I've had some success using 'Purple Adblock', but it works by connecting to a public proxy in an ad-free country for the duration of the ad - so it has issues during peak and can get you stuck in a loop

That doesn't work on Twitch for most people, unfortunately.

TTV LOL PRO however is an open source extension for Chrome and Firefox that does work.

There is a FOSS ad-free twitch client for Android https://github.com/twireapp/Twire

It's sad that this has basically become a standard. Subscribe to a service, but then you have to pay extra on top of that to not see ads. Are we now supposed to be grateful that products and services we already pay for aren't trying to bleed us for every cent they can get?

That's why with modern payment systems they give you a code and you send them the money. Credit cards made more sense before cell phones.

On the one hand I completely understand and agree with businesses that do this. CC fees take a huge chunk out of your bottom line.

On the other hand, I'm less likely to go there a second time unless I really, really, really like your business.

For my barber, I will gladly pay in cash.

There's a convenience store that charged me the 3% at check out. I left everything on the counter and went the extra mile or so and went to a normal grocery store.

I think a law passed allowing businesses to do this now. Before they were bound by their agreements with pay processors. Typically they allowed a discount for cash, but not an extra charge for credit. The whole "$10 minimum for credit cards" wasn't supposed to happen, either.

Now the payment processors aren't allowed to enforce that type of rule.

Source: I read a similar comment elsewhere on the internet a couple of years ago, and that's what I remember from it.

This is normal though. I get 25% vat added whenever i shop online outside my country. Other countries have less or more vat. They can't tell for sure, before you checkout because you may be ordering while not at your home country.

Nitro users count towards ad views and show as regular users.. basically to count as a viewer you have to have the video running, doesn’t matter if the player or tab is muted.

Yes, they still count as viewers of ads and the streamer gets a small cut of the twitch turbo subscription money.

yea, but at the top of the email it says "go ad-free for free"