We escape the internet from TV days to watch things, if you are like me you also hate TV commercials and how the plague us with various ads from Pharmaceuticals to Political ads.
Here is my work around for blocking ads on twitch and other intrusive services such as “youtube” etc..
I followed the rabbit hole from a reddit post.
That led me to this post on github.
Tools:
Chrome(edge, brave, chromium etc…) / Firefox – uBlock Origin, Twitch AdBlock, and now apply some advanced settings:
- Navigate to the uBlock Origin Dashboard (the extension options)
- Under the
My filterstab addtwitch.tv##+js(twitch-videoad). - Under the
Settingstab, enableI am an advanced user, then click the cog that appears. Modify the value ofuserResourcesLocationfromunsetto the full url of the solution you wish to use (if a url is already in use, add a space after the existing url). e.g.userResourcesLocation https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions/raw/master/notify-strip/notify-strip-ublock-origin.js - To ensure uBlock Origin loads the script I recommend that you disable/enable the uBlock Origin extension (or restart your browser)..