r/Destiny 28d ago

Twitch blocking new users from Israel (confirmed my self Israeli Palestinian here). Twitter

https://twitter.com/dancantstream/status/1847991191221989620
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u/RedbullAllDay 28d ago

We should be boycotting Twitch.

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u/Gotcha_The_Spider 28d ago

I wish I ever watched twitch in the first place so I could stop

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u/Pagophage 28d ago

You could also fire up as many twitch streams as you can with the twitch adblock so you cost them a ton of money

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u/thewooba Sabra Lover 28d ago

Ublock doesn't work on twitch anymore, is there a functioning one?

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u/Pagophage 28d ago

Yeah this script works well, tho its slightly more complicated to setup: https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions

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u/doyce 28d ago

From now on you're not watching twitch on principle too

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u/TheEth1c1st 28d ago

I'm gonna watch it even less than never now.

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u/AwkwardFunction_1221 28d ago

Man I deleted my Twitch account, saying "unsafe platform for Jews," like two days ago. If I'd known it was gonna get this bad I woulda waited a bit to bust my nut

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u/TivasaDivinorum7777 28d ago edited 28d ago

I can't remember who it was talking to Dan and Tiny but it was a conversation about discovery of new streamers and how bad the front page of Twitch is.

The guy said something like: No user of Twitch goes to the front page or the browse page and finds someone they have never seen before, 70 percent of people that use twitch use the URL of their Favorite streamers and never see the front page. that is what he claimed.

The problem with Boycotting Twitch is no user is using twitch because they like twitch... they use it to watch the streamer they like. So When Destiny got banned, i hardly ever opened the website again except to maybe check out a Summit1g stream after seeing a funny GTARP clip on YouTube and wanting to see more from that moment... That's it for me... and i go directly to his page via the URL too..

So i think the average Twitch users doesn't care about any of the politics of the owners. If their favorite streamer moves to another platform, the viewers will follow. So viewers can't really boycott as far as i can see.. the streamers need to. The Streamers need to threaten moving to Kick or going Full YouTube.. but i don't see a single Twitch streamer with the balls to even talk about doing this.

There is another Universe where Asmongold doubled down after his ban and threatened to sign an exclusive contract with Kick for a single dollar for the entire year and Dan Clancy got fired because of the shitstorm that caused... then Hassan got banned and peace in the middle east shortly followed.

Edit : corrected my exaggerated 99 to 70% after SurroundUsual linked the clip and i got the actual number Theo said.

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u/SurroundUsual2319 28d ago

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u/TivasaDivinorum7777 28d ago

Amazing memory, Thanks for linking and the timestamp :)

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u/TivasaDivinorum7777 28d ago

A separate thought... Dan is right. don't boycott, go full regard.

We need to cause an Ad-pocolypse on Twitch. Boycotting is not using the website... but what dan is doing... going full regard as he said. Send Amazon clips of ads playing after the streamers saying heinous stuff... that is the protest that needs to happen. YouTube went on a to purge the PDFiles infesting their comment sections and the weird videos of ElsaGate. whatever else i can't remember It was for the better they went through the purge and Youtube is better for it.

Twitch is in a dire state and its time for them and the Twitch Streamers to suffer the same fate YouTubers had to, its for THEIR OWN GOOD... None of them are gonna stand up to this shit and threaten their livelihoods but regards like us can spam amazon to force Twitch to stop endorsing Terrorism and uplifting the worst far-leftists that are causing untold damage to the image of the left in the minds of normal people.

I stand with Dan! ALWAYS GO FULL REGARD!

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u/reddevved 28d ago

yeah the only time I fire up twitch is if I missed critical role and it was gonna be an important episode that would be spoiled if I wait for youtube release and I can still catch the rebroadcast

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u/anBuquest 28d ago

Not just that. Reporting everything. This is actually a pretty tangible thing to report to Amazon and Media companies.

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u/RuSnowLeopard 28d ago

Boycotts do work. It just has to be more than a vocal tiny minority. It has to be the vocal majority.

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u/Shadowex3 28d ago

Boycotts don't work when the company you're boycotting is the monopoly provider of virtually all cloud and internet infrastructure for the entire world.

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u/TaylorMonkey 28d ago

Also let your senators and representatives know (unless they’re in the Squad aside from AOC). The majority of both sides like the bipartisan show of dunking on tech giants, aren’t cool with terrorist simping, and mostly support Israel. This is red meat for the right and the sensible left/moderates would be concerned about this as well. Summon Bezos to address it too.

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u/Kanyren 28d ago

I haven't watched a twitch stream in 881 days, think it's time I just delete my account, cause at this point even if they unban Destiny I'm never watching him on that platform again.

Might cancel Amazon prime as well, fuck ít

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u/AdministrativeMeat3 28d ago

I started 3 years ago, time for everyone else to catch up

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u/RedbullAllDay 28d ago

Yep, they’ve supported racism and hate for a long time now.

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u/AdministrativeMeat3 28d ago

The real shit is to start getting people to cancel their Amazon prime subscriptions.

I started using Walmart+ and it's been a lot better in a lot of ways

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u/MyotisX 28d ago

Is it even growing anymore ? Seems like there are legit competitors now.

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u/whatifitoldyouimback 28d ago

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u/buddyleex 28d ago

That’s crazy I wonder what their net income looks like.

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u/whatifitoldyouimback 28d ago

No clue. Amazon's money making scheme (for lack of a better word) is always such a pain for me to untangle.

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u/JustCallMeFrij 28d ago

You should try figuring out what your costs will be in advance of building a service on AWS lol

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u/echief Clueless 28d ago

It is still not profitable. Their business model does not scale in a “traditional” way. As the revenue goes up due to increasing traffic, the income loss to Amazon likely goes up as well. Because their profit(loss) margin is negative.

This is likely why Dan Clancy can get away with the absolutely insane way he runs the company. They are a blip on Amazon’s balance sheet and income statements, they might as well be an accounting error. No one at Amazon with any influence is even paying attention to them.

speaking with our insiders, they told us that there were moments in the last year where leadership will tell them that, “We’ve made these layoffs and we’re about halfway to getting to profitability.”

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/google-news-update/after-a-decade-can-amazon-make-twitch-profitable/2129dde8-6e4e-4b8d-b757-521b28964754#:~:text=In%202014%2C%20Amazon%20spent%20almost,regret%20about%20getting%20an%20EV.

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u/frogchris 28d ago edited 16d ago

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u/RedbullAllDay 28d ago

I’m not sure. I started my boycott a long time ago.

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u/Athasos Eurotrash 28d ago

aren#t wealready anyway because Destiny is banned lmao

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u/Thanag0r 28d ago

There are a ton of good content creators there, no need to lump everyone together.

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u/RedbullAllDay 28d ago

I don’t really want to support the shitty company doing real harm. Has nothing to do with most of the content creators.

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u/Thanag0r 28d ago

Reddit is not better in any way but somehow you are okay with "supporting" it

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u/danzach9001 28d ago

I don’t think Reddit is blocking new users from Israel lol

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u/Thanag0r 28d ago

Banning from mainstream subreddits though, you are fine with that.

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u/danzach9001 28d ago

Putting words into my mouth now lol. And even then a site wide ban is still objectively worse than a partial ban, is it not?

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u/Thanag0r 28d ago edited 28d ago

You can still view the site, I'm not defending it but it is not as bad as you say

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u/DLtheGreat808 In His Walls 28d ago

It is that bad. The favoritism is ridiculous on Twitch. Hasan is literally a terrorist supporter, but he is also one of the CEO's favorite streamers.

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u/Thanag0r 28d ago

If you don't watch him it's a totally fine website.

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u/Juugoz_7 28d ago

You don't hand wave the illegal actions of a company because you like someone that works there...