Reviews for Alternate Player for Twitch.tv
Alternate Player for Twitch.tv by Alexander Choporov (CoolCmd)
Review by Zaffira
Rated 5 out of 5
by Zaffira, 5 years agoI copy and paste the news about problem ads. You can find down on any video, with extension active, click to bell to read: "In September, Twitch started to fight ad blockers, including my extension. The extension uses special tricks to block ads. In turn, Twitch blocks every trick it seen. After that, I need a few days to find a new trick. Plus, you need to wait until the new version of the extension will be published in the store. Google and Microsoft require up to 7 days, Mozilla 1 day. All this time, you see ads in the expansion player.
The number of tricks is limited and at the moment Twitch has blocked almost everything. Therefore, in the next version of the extension, I will add a more reliable, but less effective way to hide ads. During the ads, playback may pause for a few seconds and you will see the message “Skipping ads”.
Unfortunately, Twitch rarely shows ads in my region, so I cannot test the ad hiding feature myself. I need volunteers to test the beta versions of the extension. They should: be able to think logically, often see ads in the extension, install extensions not from the store (I will give instructions), describe the test results in detail. If you want to help me with this tedious but important job, then in the player menu click “Send Feedback” and let me know. Thank you!"
The number of tricks is limited and at the moment Twitch has blocked almost everything. Therefore, in the next version of the extension, I will add a more reliable, but less effective way to hide ads. During the ads, playback may pause for a few seconds and you will see the message “Skipping ads”.
Unfortunately, Twitch rarely shows ads in my region, so I cannot test the ad hiding feature myself. I need volunteers to test the beta versions of the extension. They should: be able to think logically, often see ads in the extension, install extensions not from the store (I will give instructions), describe the test results in detail. If you want to help me with this tedious but important job, then in the player menu click “Send Feedback” and let me know. Thank you!"
799 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19105526, 5 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Vadim, 11 days agoАлександр, добавьте пожалуйста возможность смотреть зашифрованные трансляции, их становится все больше и больше. Спасибо.
- Rated 1 out of 5by AL, 11 days ago"This broadcast is encrypted. The Alternate Player for Twitch.tv extension does not support encrypted broadcasts." 50% of streams are broken for this reason.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nicky, 12 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by dlax, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by maka, 17 days agoI love this extension, it makes watching twitch a much better and smoother experience. There are some drawbacks but the upsides are so great. I hope the developer keeps updating it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by xKostiKx, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12770481, 18 days agoGreat player that blocks pefectly annoying ads on twitch. Thank you Dev !
Edit: Now, that some channels on twitch broadcast in 2K, these streams no longer can be ad-blocked.
Message: "This broadcast is encrypted. The Alternate Player for Twitch.tv extension does not support encrypted broadcasts. Click the “Back” button to return to the previous page."
Hopefully the dev will have a look at it. - Rated 4 out of 5by AJ, 19 days agoDoesn't save chat dark mode when using BTTV, otherwise works great
- Rated 3 out of 5by th, 21 days agoApp was 5/5, but now it no longer works with broadcast that stream in 1440p60 (will update rating if that changes)
- Rated 4 out of 5by Hitesh, 23 days agoInstead of resolution decreasing, the screen is going black when an ad plays. Please have a look
- Rated 2 out of 5by Swisslipz, a month agoNo longer works on encrypted lives that broadcast in 2K / 4K
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12814982, a month agoEines der wichtigen AddOns, wenn man viel Twitch guckt.
Nicht nur ist der Player schön Ressourcenschonend, sondern blockt am zuverlässigsten die Werbung und entfernt den Müll drum herum.
Es gibt nur ein Nachteil: Der Puffer ist etwas größer als beim direkten Twitch-Player.
1-2sec Verzögerung gibts dadurch ontop. - Rated 5 out of 5by Rev, a month agoMUST HAVE extension for twitch. The only issue currently is it doesn't work with the new resolution settings
- Rated 4 out of 5by Melor, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by waynechriss, a month agoSeems decent but not usable because of a 15-20 second delay in the stream so you'll often see chatters reacting or commenting on something that hasn't happened on stream yet. Also needing to have a new tab just for the home page because there's no way to see the side bar (followed channels, live channels, etc.) is really annoying.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aengine, 2 months agoOne of the better solutions to make Twitch viewable, the delay is not ideal but all considered this is a great extension.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nyrhalahotep, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Ran, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Wiz Skywalker, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by cesco, 2 months ago