I tried to make a discussion about this over r/Twitch but as you can suspect, it was deleted shortly afterwards and nobody seemed to suspect anything.
Before I get to it, I use different filters and adblocks and some plugins to block out most if not all ads on Twitch. However, I noticed a small change recently with the release of FF16. Now, I watch a lot of streams and have been watching for quite a while. I noticed when I watched FF16 streams I got substantially more ads than I used to. People commented that it is up to streamer to manually run ads and such, however, I was even confronted by some streamers as they showed their ad scheduler. They were set as auto and not manual, which means 3 minutes of ads tops each hour.
The issue is I was getting roughly 6-7 minutes of ads almost on every stream that was streaming in FF16 category (almost 2-3 ads each 7-8 minutes). What's more weird was that I got no ads (adblock filters) in any other categories be it Just Chatting or other gaming categories. Perhaps a big coincidence but this phenomenon also started at the exact date of FF16 release.
Due to the filters I am not exactly getting ads but stream distruptions. It shows up as blocked ads followed by stream pause or buffering and sometimes purple screen. However, it only happens in FF16 category streams. I watched over 12 hours of Just Chatting in the past couple days and got 0 ads (due to adblock filters etc.).
Anyone else also experiencing this?
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