And because the livestreaming platforms [obviously referring to Twitch] take an egregious chunk of the money people tip streamers, even after they've ground their way to "partnered" status.
The application has lots of external dependencies. In particular, you need:
> Twitch - a Twitch account with an application registered on their developer console.
I'd be really interested to see what happened if a popular streamer used a platform like this to completely bypass how Twitch supports itself, while still using Twitch's bandwidth / services / etc. Presumably Twitch would ignore it until it became a problem, and then change their TOS to disallow it.
Back when Twitch was Justin.tv, we put in a lot of effort to make sure we only sent video to a copy of our player that was successfully showing our ad placements. I imagine that similar protections are still in place, but it's been almost a decade since I worked there.
There exist open source clients which can play Twitch livestreams, so I’m not sure how much effort is being concentrated there anymore: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink
Not so much work anymore. It seemed there was a decent push when the html5 client was released, but nowadays you can just use streamlink or many other programs that are similar. I just sub to streamers that I want to support.
I don't understand though, most streamers get their donations via third-party platforms already (streamlabs etc). Are they bypassing as well? As a matter of fact, Twitch just recently added a native ways to accept donations (bits).
Bits are a way of donating where Twitch gets a cut.
They can’t get rid of 3rd party donations because they’ve been there forever, but they can continue to incentivise every other kind of revenue except them.
Anecdotally 3rd party donations have dropped a lot over the last couple of years in relation to other forms
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I'd be really interested to see what happened if a popular streamer used a platform like this to completely bypass how Twitch supports itself, while still using Twitch's bandwidth / services / etc. Presumably Twitch would ignore it until it became a problem, and then change their TOS to disallow it.
Back when Twitch was Justin.tv, we put in a lot of effort to make sure we only sent video to a copy of our player that was successfully showing our ad placements. I imagine that similar protections are still in place, but it's been almost a decade since I worked there.
There exist open source clients which can play Twitch livestreams, so I’m not sure how much effort is being concentrated there anymore: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink
I use adblockers and I've never seen ads on Twitch
Not so much work anymore. It seemed there was a decent push when the html5 client was released, but nowadays you can just use streamlink or many other programs that are similar. I just sub to streamers that I want to support.
We've seen this story play out before, exactly as how you describe.
However, if it gets kids to docker compose, well that's a net positive.
I don't understand though, most streamers get their donations via third-party platforms already (streamlabs etc). Are they bypassing as well? As a matter of fact, Twitch just recently added a native ways to accept donations (bits).
Bits are a way of donating where Twitch gets a cut.
They can’t get rid of 3rd party donations because they’ve been there forever, but they can continue to incentivise every other kind of revenue except them.
Anecdotally 3rd party donations have dropped a lot over the last couple of years in relation to other forms