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Twitch forces users to watch ads they can't click away from
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this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2026
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I appreciate you mentioning this.
The point miner specifically was of little use to me, but it had never occurred to me that an application could authenticate and then just pretend to watch things. This lead me to the twitch drop miner, which seems to be exactly what I’m looking for.