Reviews for Alternate Player for Twitch.tv
Alternate Player for Twitch.tv by Alexander Choporov (CoolCmd)
49 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Miliexy, 23 days agoIt's better than twitch player when that stops buffering the streams with my 100mb/s fiber internet. But the alternate player adds a 10 second delay which is sometimes annoying when watching and reading chat. I hope this gets addressed along with other concerns that people have.
- Rated 3 out of 5by scooterbaga, 5 months agoDoesn't switch the video when streamer raids. Only the chat.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Zev, 6 months agoРаботало более-менее нормально, но с недавнего времени перестало находить трансляции твича
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16369964, 6 months agoWas good while it worked twitch pushed out an update which required an autorization ID to allow streams to play so all ad-blockers will need to be updated to work (if a bypass can be found) and i doubt alternate player will be updated as the last update was in 2022
- Rated 3 out of 5by Randy, 7 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Bryan Montiel, 8 months agoNeeds an urgent update to be compatible with 7TV v3.0+ and be compatible to follow the streamer inside the extension, without the need to load twitch
- Rated 3 out of 5by PrincessOfTheDeadSheep, 8 months agoIt's a good program, a little confusing to use but fairly easily learned. I am grateful for it and thank you for making it free!
Currently, raids are not working. The chat will switch channels but the visuals don't show anything but the ended broadcast screen no matter what I've tried.
Also, it refuses to allow me to follow anyone! The follow button disappears and a red box with a sad emoji pops up briefly. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14816717, 10 months agoIt's pretty great, but for some reason there is no option to see the followed streamers left sidebar. I use that a LOT so it unfortunately prevents me from being able to use this.
- Rated 3 out of 5by furydeath, 10 months agoIt use to work but not when it's "hiding ads" it just pause the stream might as well just watch the ad.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Omnivore, 10 months agoTwitch API changes have broken this extension, for most users. You can view video but, login is failing (so no chat or user presence.) Until it's updated, you'll need to find another method. This is by far the best Twitch viewing experience, when it works. I'd donate in a heartbeat if the creator relocated and started taking other currencies ...
Developer response
posted 10 months agoIf you have browser extension DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials (or similar privacy extensions) installed, try to disable/remove it. Also read the built-in help in the player. - Rated 3 out of 5by Roman, a year agoI still don't understand which of my extensions stop this one from working, but some of them do. Disclaimer: by "stops this one from working" I mean that I can't log into Twitch and use chat with this extension's player. Sometimes, I turn off an extension, then this player starts working for a while, but then when I refresh the page this player stops working again. So, in the end, the choice is thus: you either use this extension and this extension only, OR you use anything and everything else. It's not for me. Twitch is just one of the websites I use, and I need my extensions for others.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Misha, a year agoNot work with a very bad connect. And can't work with other extensions.
It's not for me. - Rated 3 out of 5by SasamiRari, a year agoWorking great EXCEPT for the follow button...when you attempt to follow a streamer, it makes the button disappear and then shows a :( face in a red box.
Is this going to be fixed? - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17641161, a year agoThe chat add-on doesn't seem to recognize that you're logged in anymore.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17517349, a year agoI think the player has less lag than the twitch player.
Problems:
The addon doesn't work sometimes wtf?
You can't follow raids
Can't use stuff like soundalerts because you can't see the about page - Rated 3 out of 5by Jersey77, a year agoEither Twitch did something or the latest Firefox update did, but only about half the channels I look at now switch to the Alternate Player. The other half do not. Seems to be random which ones do and do not.
- Rated 3 out of 5by wesam, 2 years agoplease make the hiding ads optional in the settings menu thank you
- Rated 3 out of 5by Ry, 3 years agoThis has not blocked ads for months. All it does is black screen to not show the ad. May as well just uninstall the extension and mute the ad. For me its useless if it doesn't block ads.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16446069, 3 years agoWorked amazing for a month or so, and now every time I go to initialize it, it tells me that the streamer I'm trying to watch has ended their stream. I was hoping that this would be a solid work around. Guess I'm back to not watching Twitch anymore.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12809733, 3 years agoCould use a way to only replace the player, not the whole tab's content.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Oranges, 3 years agoseems to be blocking ads 12/22 again
(better than nothing but still letting some through)