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Twitch forces users to watch ads they can't click away from
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Yeah a website should not be able to tell where I am looking at or if my audio is muted or not.
But Bezos needs more money right, because he doesn't have enough yet.
Blame the browsers for creating the APIs.
You mean Google.
No, I mean they all decide to adopt this shit.
These tools can be used for good applications though. Why punish good developers when bad actors are the problem?
There is no valid need for this API.
This API can be used to suggest users take breaks if they've been using a site for a long time.
The exact same API exists in desktop environments; it's just part of the progressive OS-ification of the web.
yah but the problem is that other streaming platforms exist, and a fair few streamers multi stream so...
jeff might not have thought this through.