Can't miss what you never used

I'm so old I think of this

https://youtu.be/5haMVR5my-s?t=43

Owncast is the self hosted stream thing. It has some rudimentary federation capibilities, but nowhere near the ease discovery of twitch.

I know some streamers that have an owncast, expired_popsicle uses debian Linux and has one. (It's tech/linux streamers because of course).

Fifteen million merits.

If we want to avoid this shit, we need to come up with a free, open source, ad free alternative, for everything you see doing this. The problem is, once it becomes big enough, you'll need at least some money invested to keep it running (server, maintenance, services, etc.). And then guess what generates enough money that scales with usage. I hate this, and I reaaaaally hope there's some other way.

Why

Because money

there are many ways of detecting minimized/inactive or not. You can do setInterval throttle detection when browsers slow down JS in inactive tabs for performance reasons.

I need everyone to look at what you can do with HTML5 "game engines". You want mouse poisiton? You want to know if the mouse is in on the page or not? Internet speed? Audio card codec?

If a 13 years old using the free version of construct3 can do it, capitalism can do it.

Firefox has plugins to spoof specific tabs as always active.

You must be using one of those browsers from an ad company.

Core memory unlocked

Them bitches let ya know if you were getting a text. Loved that shit.

that doesn't work for twitch unfortunately :(

there used to be a different Firefox extension for just twitch which worked but idk what happened to it.
The way it worked was by taking the tiny steam of the creator that shows up when an ad plays and just scaled it up to cover the ad while muting it.

I'm sure there is a way to prevent this screen in particular, but IIRC Twitch simply doesn't stream to you when there's ads playing, or it's hardcoded into the stream itself or something, so you'd be looking at a small audio-less preview if anything ... & correct me if I'm wrong. I stopped using Twitch entirely because of this, though.

Please drink verification can.