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No third party ads like you might be thinking, but a lot of in-app upsells for discord nitro (their pro tier), server boosts, custom emotes and stuff like that.

No third party ads like you might be thinking, but a lot of in-app upsells for discord nitro (their pro tier), server boosts, custom emotes and stuff like that. Their monetization scheme is very twitch-like, I’d not be surprised if they don’t like you using third party clients that don’t shove all of that in your face.

idle_zealot 2y ago
And yet Twitch seems to allow BTT, which adds custom emotes and such that a user would normally need to pay for.
- tart-lemonade 2y ago
  I haven't seen any streamers who officially put their sub emotes on BTTV/FFZ/7TV and enable them in their channel, so if anything they end up supplementing the sub emotes rather than providing a reason to avoid subscribing. Twitch could increase sub emote limits, but I'm not sure they would want to. Many emotes on FFZ et al are memes used in hundreds of channels and could not be used on Twitch even if copyright was not a concern due to violating many of the other sub emote guidelines: https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/emote-guidelines?language=en_US https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/emote-guidelines?language=e... So Twitch has no real reason to try and compete on this front. They just don't officially support it, which means anyone using the official Twitch app or not using any browser extensions will only see them as weird text in the chat. If Twitch updates the layout and breaks the extensions, the extensions will adapt, so power users get a ton of extra features at no cost to Twitch. While these services make money riding Twitch's coattails, anyone willing to pay for the premium tiers of these services is likely either a streamer who wants to load up more meme emotes for their chat to use (increases engagement) or is the kind of power user who subscribes to multiple streamers at tier 2 or 3, so I doubt they hurt Twitch's bottom line. If anything, going to war with these extensions would likely hurt their bottom line since features like FFZ's audio compressor make many streamers' terrible audio settings listenable.
cudder 2y ago
Their official client also collects a disturbing amount of telemetry that they'll miss out on.
- giancarlostoro 2y ago
  Reminds me of the time a friend on Discord mentioned a very specific brand of ramen I didnt google, only to see an ad for this very niche brand of ramen on Facebook when I opened Facebook two minutes later. I use Facebook and Instagram drastically less every time this happens. Cant make a cent off me if I am not on your platform.

idle_zealot 2y ago

And yet Twitch seems to allow BTT, which adds custom emotes and such that a user would normally need to pay for.

tart-lemonade 2y ago
I haven't seen any streamers who officially put their sub emotes on BTTV/FFZ/7TV and enable them in their channel, so if anything they end up supplementing the sub emotes rather than providing a reason to avoid subscribing. Twitch could increase sub emote limits, but I'm not sure they would want to. Many emotes on FFZ et al are memes used in hundreds of channels and could not be used on Twitch even if copyright was not a concern due to violating many of the other sub emote guidelines: https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/emote-guidelines?language=en_US https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/emote-guidelines?language=e... So Twitch has no real reason to try and compete on this front. They just don't officially support it, which means anyone using the official Twitch app or not using any browser extensions will only see them as weird text in the chat. If Twitch updates the layout and breaks the extensions, the extensions will adapt, so power users get a ton of extra features at no cost to Twitch. While these services make money riding Twitch's coattails, anyone willing to pay for the premium tiers of these services is likely either a streamer who wants to load up more meme emotes for their chat to use (increases engagement) or is the kind of power user who subscribes to multiple streamers at tier 2 or 3, so I doubt they hurt Twitch's bottom line. If anything, going to war with these extensions would likely hurt their bottom line since features like FFZ's audio compressor make many streamers' terrible audio settings listenable.

cudder 2y ago

Their official client also collects a disturbing amount of telemetry that they'll miss out on.

giancarlostoro 2y ago
Reminds me of the time a friend on Discord mentioned a very specific brand of ramen I didnt google, only to see an ad for this very niche brand of ramen on Facebook when I opened Facebook two minutes later. I use Facebook and Instagram drastically less every time this happens. Cant make a cent off me if I am not on your platform.