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Tip: You can bypass Twitch ads on Firefox thanks to Picture-in-Picture (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Happened to discover this a while ago.

If an ad starts playing in the main window that moves the livestream to a small window in the top right corner, do the following:

Mute the main stream.
Hover your mouse over to the tiny window and click the PiP button.
Unmute the PiP stream

You can now continue to watch the livestream uninterrupted. Once the ad concludes, the PiP pop-up window automatically closes and the main stream continues.

I usually enlarge the PiP window and move it over the ad to cover it.

This is basically a manual method of what add-ons like Alternate Player for Twitch.tv do.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (4 children)

You can also use unlock origin to skip those too.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

Ublock Origin*

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

uBlock origin does not block twitch ads, in my experience

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's a regional thing. From time to time, ublock origin fails but it'll work again after the filter lists are updated. Even if it works, the stream will stop and you have to reload the page.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To me Twitch continues to display ads despite hard Firefox settings, UBlock Origin, ClearURL, Privacy Badger and Decentraleyes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

there's some custom rules u need in uBo for twitch iirc

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Whattttt!? I mean I guess that makes sense. I will have to try this. Usually I watch twitch via Chromecast on my tv. For whatever reason no ads play when doing that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Sounds like a bug, I hope it never gets fixed. :)