this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
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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:

  1. Mute the main stream.
  2. Hover your mouse over to the tiny window and click the PiP button.
  3. 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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[–] slazer2au 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You can also use unlock origin to skip those too.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Ublock Origin*

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

uBlock origin does not block twitch ads, in my experience

[–] shotgun_crab 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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