Overall, 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`);
```

Please update for 1440P streams. Also, I don't think this works anymore for twitch drops.

I 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.

Once 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.

Still doesn't work on streams that are higher than 1080p and it's been like 3 months now.

Could have been great, but inexplicably changes the entire UI while watching a stream. Dark mode is only remembered with less chat features, and it recommends changing to Dark Mode via Twitch.Tv which appears to just not exist. Navigation is completely removed and is changed to an options list to click through, completely useless change. It removes all of the panels below the stream, another needless change. If this kept something at least moderately similar to the base UI of Twitch, or options to customize it, this would be great. It ruining the UI makes this nearly unusable for me unfortunately. Lastly, it didn't really even help with the stream delay. The base delay with this player was longer than when default is just buffering.

"This broadcast is encrypted. The Alternate Player for Twitch.tv extension does not support encrypted broadcasts." 50% of streams are broken for this reason.

Seems decent but not usable because of a 15-20 second delay in the stream so you'll often see chatters reacting or commenting on something that hasn't happened on stream yet. Also needing to have a new tab just for the home page because there's no way to see the side bar (followed channels, live channels, etc.) is really annoying.

НЕ СОХРАНЯЕТ ТЕМНЫЙ РЕЖИМ!!!!

Doesnt work with 7tv

The player is in need of an update. Hiding ads causes the stream to shrink and the stream frequently skips ahead a few seconds which I know isn't on my end because it never did that before.

Doesn't work with two tabs

useless garbage, the only reason to use this is to hide ads, but when it hides the ads it changes viedo quality to like 240p, wtf is this

Addon simply doesn't work in any capacity. I removed Ublock and Ghostery nothing I do will make the player function. With it set to auto it never opens and when I left click nothing occurs. Tried it on chrome and works perfectly so it's not user error.

since over 3 months chat theme keeps resetting back to light one, swithing light and dark themes in twitch browser setting doesn't solve the problem anymore

Refuses to save chat settings for some reason. I have to toggle dark mode manually every time, even when i just refresh the page.

The extension mostly works. I'd love to rate 5 stars. But I have a very annoying issue where the playback keeps flickering a brief black screen every 10 or 15 seconds throughout the stream. Please advise a workaround or implement a fix for this.

edit: downgraded to 1 star because the consistent black flashing is TOO ANNOYING to use this extension. also, after hiding ads in low-res it doesn't go back to high-res unless I manually make it do so.

It will randomly not play certain streams, claiming they're "encrypted". Thankfully this is free or I'd ask for money back.

Just buffering when hiding ads. So same/same.

Doesn't block ads, you just get a loading screen till the ad is finished playing