Another Twitch Anti Adblock Plus measure

[lewisje]

What about building our own ad server, redirecting the requests to it, and serving a blank, zero second ad?

Just FYI, ABP is able to block "object subrequests"; also, at least on Chrome, it is able to use the webRequest API to redirect instead of cancelling requests, and an idea I was toying around with for a while was redirection to "null" content (like minimal valid .mp4 and .avi and even .swf files), building on what the experimental webRequest builds once did (redirecting blocked images to a 1x1-pixel transparent GIF, and blocked HTML content to about:blank, which Gundlach's AdBlock still does).

There are probably limits to how well this would work, considering that a year ago or so, Michael Gundlach tested it on Hulu and found he needed to make the replacement MP4 file several seconds long before the Hulu player would think it was an ad: http://support.getadblock.com/discussio ... t_29189697

[anon4644004]

I noticed an issue I've been having with blocking ads on Twitch.

If I have ABP enabled, I can only view a few videos on the channel list for a game. If I disable it, the scroll to load more works. It really is a bit of a pain, as you have to disable it to find the channel you want, then enable it once you reach the stream.
example

[lewisje]

First, you should get BetterTTV, which makes TwitchTV better

On a more serious note, I don't notice this happening; what subscriptions and custom filters do you use?

[mapx]

google buys twitch
http://venturebeat.com/2014/07/24/googl ... eo-empire/

[guest]

Amazon bought it after all: http://blog.twitch.tv/2014/08/a-letter- ... t-25-2014/