>>49448925nta but even that is a gamble. It relies on proxying the request for the stream manifest to countries that Twitch currently doesn't serve ads in.
That list is not static, they gradually manage start serving ads to more countries. There might be only a few that it never happens in, but currently the proxies set up are not restricted to those ones, it's any of the countries that they believe do not get ads.
Just the other day 4 or 5 people I know that use it complained about a 5 ad long break while watching some fag play the holo fightan fan game. This was likely because the country for the proxy they were sent through started showing ads.
Not sure how long it takes for them to remove proxies from the list when this happens, but my point is just that it's not a 100% effective solution. Mostly effective, sure, but not perfect. I personally just don't bother taking the gamble, since I don't care enough about Twitch anyway and have disliked it for various reasons since 2011.
As a side note, there's also a chance Twitch eventually adds proper verification of the IP requesting a manifest and the IP requesting segments listed in the manifest, at which point you'd have to do a full proxy and no addon is going to give you that. But no sense worrying about that until it happens.
>>49448238Youtube doesn't count people with adblock or watching from embeds. As someone else said, it's possible people that don't have the tab focused are also not counted since it relies on a heartbeat request (blocked by most ad blockers, is not included in embeds, and most browsers won't run a lot of JS when a tab is not focused). I do not know if having the video in picture-in-picture mode prevents JS from stalling when the tab is not focused.
I don't have numbers for how many people are estimated to use adblock, but as an example, if it were 40% of people, and all of the same watched a Youtube stream and then a Twitch stream for someone, then if they had 10k viewers on Youtube, they would get 14k viewers on Twitch.
