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, 5 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!"
843 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by AustralianAlex, 9 days agoWas working quite well until recently, it will now infinitlely buffer while ads are playing instead of hiding them like usual. I would suggest finding an alternative, as the last update was some time ago.
- Rated 4 out of 5by iSWB, 10 days agoStarting about a week ago, now when ads play, it freezes instead of lowering the quality until the ad is over.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19584902, 11 days agoThis broadcast is encrypted. The Alternate Player for Twitch.tv extension does not support encrypted broadcasts. Click the “Back” button to return to the previous page.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Алексей, 14 days agoА есть варик запиндюрить прокси от ReYohoho или типа, чтобы 1080 и 1440 рублей работали?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13594925, 15 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Adam S. Messinger, 24 days agoIt works well at blocking ads but the typing area in the chat window will no longer work as of last week. It was perfect before that.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Gorzag, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18112385, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pedro Gomes, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by enjoyer, 2 months agoOverall, a shady addon.
1. Addon has BSD license without source code linked.
2. It sends telemetry, unique persistent device fingerprint, device, screen, date and time, time zone, CPU, GPU, languages information when you try to send a report.
3. Contrary to its policy (coolcmd.github.io/privacy.html#tw5-en), you cannot refuse to include the data, only refuse to send the report altogether.
4. The server URL is not disclosed: r90354g8.beget.tech/tw5/report3.php
5. Chat in the extension page doesn't save theme across browser sessions.
EDIT: you can still see the extension's code in the browser, it's not minified. IT'S IN RUSSIAN (yes, the whole code, not just the comments).
```
if (!лБыстро) {
м_Преобразователь.Остановить();
м_Проигрыватель.Остановить();
м_Помойка.Сжечь();
}
м_Журнал.Окак('[Запускалка] Работа завершена');
Проверить(!г_лРаботаЗавершена);
м_Журнал.Вот(`[Запускалка] Начало работы ${performance.now().toFixed()}мс`);
``` - Rated 2 out of 5by TomTrustworthy, 2 months agoJust found that this extension is causing me to be unable to watch Amazon Prime videos. Each video would show some message like "That shouldn't have happened." I tried a few troubleshooting steps but nothing helped. Disabling this addon made it so i can watch amazon stuff again.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17607442, 2 months agoWorks perfectly, BUT you can't see the streamer panel, and for me the transparency setting in the colors tab is hidden. Still a 4 star since the actual functionality is perfect. Got this for the adblocking and the latency fixing and it seems to do both as good as possible.
Edit: Adblocking is broken currently, just buffers. - Rated 5 out of 5by abubua, 2 months agoCan't receive twitch drops via extension. Fix pls, otherwise great extension.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Patento56, 2 months agoMore and more bugs, now the chat doesn’t work anymore, please do an update
- Rated 1 out of 5by Cy_NaNa, 2 months agoPlease update for 1440P streams. Also, I don't think this works anymore for twitch drops.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19466651, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Ash Nakano, 3 months agoI decided after having issues with Twitch again today to give this addon a try. Now I remember that I've tried this addon before for Firefox and I wish I could say that I could give this more than a 1-star but it doesn't work. I've tried figuring it out to be sure it wasn't me and I checked the other reviews here, but other folks seem to have problems getting this addon to function and play a live Twitch stream. To the author of the addon, if this addon worked once before, it sadly did not work for me more than a year ago and doesn't work now.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Energetic Rain, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19444534, 3 months agoOnce good, now terrible. Can't make a simple update to view 1440p streams. Trying to open more than 1 player at the same time takes ages. God forbid you try to load a few streams at once, you might as well go read "war and peace" before they load.
- Rated 5 out of 5by lac29, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ultraguy24, 3 months agoWorks great overall! solved some buffering issues with some of my streamers. For a feature request, I was wondering if it would be possible to add 7TV support as currently I need to use Chatterino seperately to be able to see 7TV emotes in chat. Thanks for all the hard work!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19429071, 3 months agoStill doesn't work on streams that are higher than 1080p and it's been like 3 months now.
- Rated 5 out of 5by kauã, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by femoto, 3 months ago