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[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 356 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Anyone else remember when new technology used to be fun and exciting instead of miserable?

[–] lemmeout@lemm.ee 117 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Long gone are the days when I used be excited to read update notes for new features... Now I just hope they don't god damn force an update on me.

[–] PhreakyByNature@feddit.uk 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I went back to an old APK of Twitch and refuse to update to the current dumpster fire.

[–] anton2492@lemmy.nz 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I use PurpleTV and it's been great. It's a Twitch fork modified to block ads, reduce bloat, and include customisation for chat, player and other components.

Don't know if we can share links here but the APK can be easily found online, still being updated semi-regularly. I won't come back to the official app as long as I'm able. :)

[–] PhreakyByNature@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago

Cheers for that. I had other third party apps way back in the day but they lacked some features. Will check it out.

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] moonleay 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They also leak your User ID and IP to a 3rd party.

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] moonleay 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Twire is a great alternative though.

https://github.com/twireapp/Twire

And it only connects to Twitch! :) (Plus betterttv or alternatives in case support for them are activated iirc)

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

is there a way to watch stuff without using a Twitch account with it? I've tried just skipping the login process, but search returns no results when I search for streamers or games.

[–] msage@programming.dev 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just use Free and Open Source Software!

It can always fuck up with updates, but usually you just get more free stuff and it's awesome.

[–] asbestos@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And always donate if you find the project useful!

[–] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 63 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Somewhere along the line, maybe the early to mid 2000's they stopped making products "for" the end-user and flipped it around so the end-user (their data) is now the product, and the customers are governments, corporations, and share holders.

[–] omarfw@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago

Because those shareholders (billionaires) and corporations drained the consumers of all of their money and now they're the most profitable demographic to market to.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

shareholders

If 0.000…01% shareholders count:

Guessing a lotta us have a few bucks in index funds… suppose that ain’t cool, gotta find a principled fund.

The most principled funds must only invest in like three companies cuz every corp has some problem.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 months ago

That's part of the reason why new community oriented projects are way more interesting to me now than most software. There are some outliers in the space who still have dedicated people in their craft rather than for money but it is fewer and farther between.

[–] loam@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely. Although, this is just making old technology worse because web 3.0 and AI aren't performing to corpo expectations.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

That's what happens when you aren't the (sole) paying customer.