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, 4 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!"
719 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Solvent, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14090334, 3 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Homage, 5 days agoVery good extension, only gripe is that dark mode doesn't stay enabled when the viewer is reloaded other than that 4.5 out of 5!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kase, 7 days agoWorks to block ads when other solutions are broken. I just wish chat opened in dark mode by default! Really enjoy the customizable themes. Will update my review if any ads get through
- Rated 5 out of 5by Network 47, 11 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13758038, 20 days agoIt's a nice extension, but I get this momentary black flickers and cuts in audio. I know its blocking ads, but it doing that every 5 to 10 seconds or so.
EDIT:
I have found out that the DuckDuckGo & Decentraleyes extensions was causing is ext to flicker and cut up the audio. Everything is now fine. 👍 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13243261, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14004975, 21 days agoPlease, make it possible to disable "c" hotkey for chat.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Ellesadil, 22 days agoWork's fine for the most part, Channel points are no longer being collected for some reason anymore, was working great 2 weeks ago and then just stopped.
nvm, for some weird reason I just had to disable and then re-enable the extension and now it works again. - Rated 5 out of 5by Romain, 23 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18565417, a month ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by maedas, a month agoChat does not remember dark mode (needs to be reapplied every time you open it). Kind of critical functionality that's broken.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Mr. Mojo, 2 months agoAwesome extension! But for some reason I don't have the Instant replay button. Anyone who can help with that is welcome.
- Rated 5 out of 5by entomologo, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18524349, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18032376, 2 months agoI tried several ways to get rid of ads on Twitch, and so far this extension is the best solution out there. I hope it keeps up in the long run. But so far so good.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18533172, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by NecDW4, 2 months agoRefuses to save chat settings for some reason. I have to toggle dark mode manually every time, even when i just refresh the page.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mitru, 2 months agoThere's a mod for Slay the Spire called Slay the Relics, that allows you to hover over parts of the stream to see more information (like what potions or relics do, or the status of the player and enemies), and click the deck icon to show all the cards. But it doesn't work with this enabled.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15560381, 2 months agoWorks most of the time, thank you very much.
One thing, however. Recently it seems to have begun clearing the twitch cache, forgetting settings (specifically dark mode for chat). Fixable? :)