Reviews for Alternate Player for Twitch.tv
Alternate Player for Twitch.tv by Alexander Choporov (CoolCmd)
Review by Firefox user 15047343
Rated 2 out of 5
by Firefox user 15047343, 7 years ago*** Second update to my review. I'm dropping my rating down to 2 stars. It feels like the dev has abandoned the extension. Haven't had an update in over a year and every day more and more of the streams I follow get hit with the mystical "stream is encrypted" error rendering the extension 100% useless. It is still a great extension for the streams it works for and i will continue using it until the day it stops working for the last streamer I follow but I REALLY hope the dev fixes the extension.***
**I've been using this addon for years now and I still hold it as one the best addons on Firefox. However! I'm dropping it down to 4 stars after all these years b/c it's crazy that we STILL cannot follow raids. That really needs to be added**
This extension is one of the most important plugins I run. The ability to resize the playing window is absolutely game changing. All the customization options are extremely helpful. I would LOVE something like this for Youtube... hint hint
**I've been using this addon for years now and I still hold it as one the best addons on Firefox. However! I'm dropping it down to 4 stars after all these years b/c it's crazy that we STILL cannot follow raids. That really needs to be added**
This extension is one of the most important plugins I run. The ability to resize the playing window is absolutely game changing. All the customization options are extremely helpful. I would LOVE something like this for Youtube... hint hint
881 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ivia Relle, 6 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Jupee, 7 days agoBeen using this for years, love the addon. Obviously how it hides the ads, but also many of the great quality of life stuff added.
That's why I'm sad I can't give more than 3 stars. Since more and more streamers broadcast in 2K, making their streams encrypted, and Alternate Player does not support encrypted broadcasts. - Rated 4 out of 5by vinnycordeiro, 12 days agoIt's a great add-on to remove ads from streams. Twitch isn't making it easy though: channel points aren't working anymore for a few months and with the increase of the adoption of encrypted streamings the add-on isn't working as it should. Here hoping all these small things are fixed.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19998177, 19 days agoThe GOAT of Twitch adblocking, that this isn't more popular is crazy. The new "1440p" streams on Twitch are not supported yet, would be amazing if you could add those (even if it downgrades quality to 1080p, I would love to watch those streams).
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17828528, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Leonard, a month agoBeautiful.
But please add a timer for how often the ads start and how long they last. It's stupid, but I want to understand how many ads the creator/Twitch puts on each live stream. 5 stars anyway. - Rated 5 out of 5by NemesisProject, 2 months agoTwitch continues to make the website unusable garbage. This fixes ALL of that. The people complaining about Dark Mode are silly, you have to click the settings bar to mess and CHECK the Dark Mode option.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19833780, 2 months agoBe nice if the dark chat mode saved, get flashbanged everytime I open it.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Alexaction, 2 months agoIts great, but I need the chatbox to remember that I set it to dark mode everytime I load up a stream. ALSO, need a loudness equalizer, half of all twitch streams are too quiet and I can't even use this if I have to boost the volume myself and get my ears blown out by anything else my browser plays.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Shalom Esparza, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18117194, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by AmerIes, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by sleep, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18461629, 3 months agoThis is very helpful if you have terrible internet connection.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Art, 3 months agoI have tried many adblockers, many twitch optimizing solutions, this one is the best I've ever seen for both in one. Phenomenal piece of work that makes twitch go from a sickly ad-drenched nightmare that used every bit of CPU it could steal like a damn bitcoin miner into a proper, fast, ad-free stream. Phenomenal work. Like a focusing lens. I think Google just kicked them off the play store for actually functioning.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Arthur, 3 months agoOne of the best extensions out there! Thank you for your hard work Sasha.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19824457, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19819889, 3 months agoЛучшее расширение для Твича! Вот только начисление баллов канала перестало работать, ждем новостей и обновления
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19817866, 3 months agoNo doubt twitch is intentionally disabling their features on third party extensions (bit rate/highres, loyalty points). If you request your data from twitch (Thank you european GDPR) you can see that they track all kinds of details about your settings on their home player.
Seems like only a matter of time until they move to cripple extensions like this one. So many efforts to create friction points, haven't seen any of the other tech companies do things like this. Soon our only agency will be to completely move off using the platform. - Rated 5 out of 5by Strabo, 3 months agoChannel points stopped working a few days ago. Otherwise, this addon is great and provides a much needed, and curiously missing, audio only player option.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18989373, 3 months agoAssuming it continues to work exactly as it's working now, it's much better than the default.