History of twitch ad arms race?

• ttv-ublock

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  Discontinued Blocking ads on that certain streaming website

Looking back at r/Twitch, this post from September 2020 seems to have been the first solution that got popular, and it revolved around injecting a script into uBlock Origin. That solution was iterated upon by another user in r/Twitch in October 2020, and eventually evolved into a browser extension (Chrome, Firefox, Source Code). This solution relied on the fact that Twitch didn't run ads in embed Twitch players, and would trick Twitch into thinking you were watching from an embed.

• TwitchAdSolutions

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From then on, Twitch adblocking has been the Wild West. Some users discovered that Twitch doesn't (didn't?) serve ads in some geographic regions, so VPNs and fetching Twitch streams through a proxy became a relatively popular solution. Reloading the webpage until you didn't have a ad. https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions was a Github repository started soon after the purple screen of death was implemented, and compiles a ton of the solutions people have found to circumvent twitch ads. Most of the solutions have their c

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