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Unwanted Twitch by kwaschny.net

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  • by jamvaru, 3 years ago
    Yeah, i found the button. Why it can't be with the other buttons, idk.
    Too bad the carousel is not supported for blocking, but there's an addon for that, no doubt. I enjoyed customizing twitch with ublock, but it's tricky.
    Thanks, i'll try to figure out the manual blocking options.
    I'd like to see a right click menu option for adding something to the block list, perhaps several options.
  • by Firefox user 13298932, 3 years ago
  • by Firefox user 15022373, 3 years ago
    Works amazingly well, instantly intuitive, easy reccomendation.

    Platforms are growing insufferable with their content curation aimed directly at morons and genre creep based on that so I greatly appreciate any tool that I can get to carve that shit out of what I watch.
  • by NF, 3 years ago
    The dev has been pretty clear regarding how occasionally the add-on will bork if twitch changes things up (which lets be honest, they do it quite frequently). Thanks for having this tool, this has really helped me do a better job of sifting thru the crap pile that is twitch
  • by Firefox user 14629992, 3 years ago
    Awesome. It works as expected.
  • by mark, 3 years ago
    It's not very clear that you have to press an X button on things you want filtered out until you actually know to see it and look for it. I can't find out how to change settings or see where the block list is. More documentation would be good.
    Edit: The icon for the settings menu is in the address bar for some reason. I spent too long looking all over the browser for it. Seriously - more documentation please.
    Edit in response to dev reply: 1) Not everyone is able to see pictures, or can see them clearly - text description is very helpful. 2) Snarkily replying to someone asking for help and giving feedback with "Considering that you seem to have missed them, I doubt a text explanation would have helped here. =)" ... really sucks. 3) The screenshots did not match what I found in my browser. In the screenshots, it looks like the icon is in the "extension area" to the right of the address bar. My icon was IN the address bar. Firefox alone, itself, does not decide where to place icons.

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    How extensions are presented (where the icons are and how users access them) is up to the browser. Firefox surely has a unique unobtrusive way.

    Regarding documentation: Did you look at the screenshots? Considering that you seem to have missed them, I doubt a text explanation would have helped here. I'm sure you will figure it out. =)

    Edit:
    1) Understood. I might add a brief explanation where the controls are to be found and what they do in the future.
    2) You didn't ask for help, you left a 2/5 review without ever contacting me. I have received lots of negative comments over the past years, especially when twitch.tv changes up something and thus breaks this extension. Your criticism certainly isn't unjustified, but I prefer to have an opportunity to fix an issue before the user leaves a low rating - just like I mention in the description.
    3) Firefox changed that last year. There has been a lot of confusion around this topic. (Site specific add-ons appear in the address bar while non-specific add-ons are part of the toolbar). There is a workaround on this extension's GitHub repository available. And this is, in deed, unique to Firefox. If you know better, feel free to contribute to the extension via GitHub by either pointing to the corresponding docs, explaining how to alter the manifest or, even better, solve it and create a pull request. This is a free open source project, any help is welcome.
  • by Firefox user 12810905, 3 years ago
    How to use it? Any instructions or even decent hints? Any notions of this extension's interface, activity, or even presence?

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    Pretty self explanatory once you visit twitch.tv. What exactly do you need help with?
  • by Firefox user 15099013, 3 years ago
    Didn't block all items in list; did block some.

    Another edit: dirt rally 2 isn't being blocked. It's also blacklisted on "titles" and "tags"

    Edit to reply to dev: Yes; blocked some games, but not others. Two I remember it didn't block: v rising and another game that began with a "c" (I know, not much help there.) I had both the games in the 'block game' and the 'block tag' (which I tried when the block game didn't work,) but they weren't reacting.

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    Can you elaborate?
  • by Firefox user 17416436, 3 years ago
    I used it to block XqCow, 10/10 good add-on.
  • by General Delphox, 3 years ago
  • by ZherkedJuicer, 3 years ago
  • by myfirstname, 3 years ago
  • by Firefox user 17000236, 4 years ago
    works great, thank you c:
  • by Firefox user 15677063, 4 years ago
    Unwanted Twitch:
    The storage service encountered an unexpected error.
    Please wait a few minutes, restart your browser and try again.

    Blacklisted channels (303)
    Cannot continue to add


    >new
    disabled "Syncronize Blacklist via Cloud
    Solved - thank you

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    Try it with disabled "Syncronize Blacklist via Cloud" option in the extension's blacklist view. This will switch to the local storage engine, which does not rely on network/service availability.
  • by QuantumDrone, 4 years ago
    Used to work perfectly, but everything stopped working for me yesterday. Categories and channels are clearly on blacklist but when viewing by Live Channels I still see them. Perhaps Twitch updated their site?

    *Edit* Thanks for the headsup. Man... Figures.

    *Further Edit 20 days later* It's back to working now!

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    There seems to be a partial/experimental rollout for some users. It still works perfectly fine on my end. Nothing I can do right now. :(
  • by ChillaxJustDoIt, 4 years ago
  • by NeXttime, 4 years ago
    I like this add-on but in FF 89.0 the icon in the URL bar can no longer be hidden. I hope the option to hide this will return.

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    That's an official change by the Firefox team, I do not have any saying in this. There is a workaround available through userChrome.css, if you care.
  • by forsenE, 4 years ago
  • by Dinir, 4 years ago
    I was using it for half an year.

    I just found out clicking the X button often hides some other accounts as well, and there could be still some pages where the contents supposed to be filtered will still appear (eg go to `directory/game/GAME_NAME/videos/all` then change the Sort By to Recently Published).

    Since the filter items are all shown in a letter order, there's no way I could find and revert hiding on those I didn't meant to. But even if it can show the chronological order, it's gonna be so much burden at this point with several hundreds of items for each hiding options.

    It was good to have a "SEEMINGLY" solid way to completely hide not just categories but also channels on twitch, but now I can't trust the extension anymore. Even if I swallow the bitter pill and decide it's okay to ignore those innocent but wrongly hidden channels, I'd still gonna see some accounts and other things I actually wanted to never see ever again.

    I liked this extension. I am going back to FFZ with only category-wise filtering.
  • by Bullete, 4 years ago
    A must have extension for every Twitch user, this works like a charm and developer is always updating it when Twitch change something and extension doesn't work. Thank you so much for this.
  • by ds, 4 years ago
    Unfortunately tag filtering stopped working in the "live channels" tab, even the "X" are gone from the tags.

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    Twitch changed some views on Monday and that broke it. I released a new version on Friday, but it is still in review by the Firefox Add-ons team and will probably take a few more days.
  • by NSEW, 4 years ago
    Disabled all other extensions, refreshed page, restarted browser a few times, refreshed page a few more time, etc... It didn't load a single time.

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    How do you know it "didn't load"? Did you check if the extension appears in the address bar addons? Can you check the browser console for any errors when on twitch.tv?
  • by Firefox user 16711652, 4 years ago
    There are so many streams that are just irrelevant to me. This addon removes them easily so I can focus on the good stuff. Recently, however, when clicking the 'x' to hide a stream, I've been getting error: "The storage service encountered an unexpected error.
    Please wait a few minutes, restart your browser and try again.".
    What could cause this? Is there a limit to the number of streams I can hide?
  • by Elian, 4 years ago
  • by zhooe, 4 years ago