Alternate Player for Twitch.tv

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Alternate player of live broadcasts for Twitch.tv website.

Latest reviews

• (2025-04-27) david b: At this point, it's time to move on unless someone decides to update the extension. It's been great overall, but now that the update broke it, and there seems to be no update in site, I think it's time to move to other extensions that give you any functionality you're looking for from this one. 2025 update: Seems to be working quite well again. Running on Brave since chrome wants to break everything. Only issues I have is that every time I run a stream in the alt player, it defaults the chat to light mode instead of dark like I'd like to have it. Not sure what is getting reset to keep that from remember my preferences.
• (2025-03-04) Nazar Vynnyk: когда заработает?
• (2025-02-21) Patrick Stratton: Ads have been fixed. Thank you developer. Also, did you remove the option to close chat yet keep that resizable chat area open? It was helpful when watching on a lower resolution. Thanks. Also Google, I'm not a mindless drone I can actually make rational decisions free from outside influence, so if YOU make this extension unable to work because YOU think I shouldn't use it? I WILL move to a different browser that's free of your BS. You're only hurting yourself.
• (2025-02-10) Michael Cornell: Update 3: Same issue as before but now the extension frequently crashes if you open chat. 2/5 Update 2: Extension opens chat in light mode and won't save dark mode. Constant flash bang. 4/5 Update 1: Extension works well, no complaints. 5/5 Doesn't work, says stream has ended. Will update review if extension is fixed.
• (2024-09-02) Aaron M.: Love this extension. It makes Twitch broadcast layout look so much cleaner
• (2024-06-05) Jose Alberto Dzib Chuc: 05/06/2024 - Con la actualización reciente parece ser que se arreglaron varios detalles, de nuevo ya se puede ganar puntos del canal, los comerciales ya se ocultan sin que se pause el stream o al menos la mayoría. 26/11/2023 - Actualizo después de un tiempo (se me pasó hacerlo antes) Funciona bien la extensión actualmente; el único detalle aun es lo de los puntos del canal, que no permite ganarlos, por ese detalle ya casi no lo uso. 31/05/2023 - La extensión ha muerto, ya no permite ver los streams, sale el mensaje "Broadcast ended", espero la actualicen pronto. 31/08/2022 - Ya hay una nueva actualización (version: 105.0.5195.54), ya funciona bien con varias pestañas abiertas. 06/08/2022 - Con la nueva actualización de Chrome, ya no deja ver 2 streams simultaneaos. Sale este mensaje: Código de error: RESULT_CODE_KILLED_BAD_MESSAGE 21/02/2021 - Nuevamente esta presentando problemas con el mensaje "Hiding Ads", se pausa el stream unos segundos y luego vuelve a carga, aunque no muestra los comerciales. 19/01/2021 - Que bueno que ya la arreglaron, apenas hoy la cheque de nuevo y ya funciona.
• (2024-06-02) Gaming_Bigfoot: •June 2024: My life has been rough on me but the update to this means there's one less thing bringing me down; UI was cleaned up a bit, ads are gone again though the display resolution doesn't stay consistent during ads being hidden Oh and Google's started a silent war with trying to stop the extension from being used, I guess? According to one of the extensions notifications anyway •Dec 2022: Going a while without this made me realize just how annoying the default player is but it's still not handling ads well so that's a shame •August 2022: So... yeah, this particular extension seems to have been left to rot at this point. Cannot recommend in its current state. •August 2021: Still doesn't stop the initial tune-in advert interruptions, and forced-roll advert interruptions now also stop playback too. Doesn't show ads at least but it still hurts to see my go-to player for Twitch fall off the wayside. •July 2021: So, this still has the issue of "have to wait on the initial tune-in advert" but doesn't ever seem to get interruption ads, thankfully. Hoping that gets fixed one day, as it's still a superior player to the default, but with other anti-Twitch-advert options out there, it leaves me torn between the choice of "superior player" or "no advert experience". •June 2021: Button was fixed and it works again. And I got no idea why that Youssef guy just assumes I'd know anything about that lol but good luck on that buddy •May 2021: So the extension still works but the button to access it isn't accessible. My personal solution is to just use Browser History to open the extension, then just replace "channel=" part manually with the channel I want to watch. Hope this gets fixed as default Twitch sucks, otherwise my 5-rating will remain at its new 3-rating. •Jan 2020: They fixed what Twitch broke •2019 Initial review: This seems to block what advertisements got past uBlock Origin. Only complaint is the lack of a "block" option in the integrated chat.
• (2024-06-02) Izumo Hiiragi: Thank you for the fix! Have 5 Stars again!
• (2024-01-18) G Kont: CLAIMING POINTS DON'T WORK. 7TV DON'T APPEAR. Fix your issues....
• (2023-11-02) Don't Me: Как отключить автозапуск этого плеера? Так и не нашёл
• (2023-11-01) Steve Tysl: So for those of you complaining about the buffering their is a reason its just a placeholder really if you watch on a new window without this extension turned on and one with you'll see the buffer on this addon yes but if you're watching the same stream with the window without its the add playing and tha addon stops the buffering as soon as the ads stop so it's not really blocking the ads its just stickling a buffering ad logo emplace of another ad... Not really blocking ads if you ask me....
• (2023-10-27) Wesley: follow button and clip button are not working
• (2023-10-22) Ryan Delehanty: Doing gods work. I love this extension even if it isn't supported anymore.
• (2023-10-05) Shaun C: Stopped working, used to work great but now won't even buffer and play anything.
• (2023-09-28) Ortiz: THANKS for updating!!
• (2023-09-23) Riky X: does not work. stream go to very low quality and then freezes forever. useless
• (2023-09-21) Erquinzon Pacheco: funciona perfecto, ayuda mucho cuando la señal de internet no es estable, pero no le doy 5 estrellas porque no te deja ganar puntos del canal que estés viendo
• (2023-09-20) Tyler T: Twitch fails to buffer when this extension is disabled or removed. Forced to reinstall and continue using the alternative player (which doesn't even stop ads).
• (2023-09-19) Kylie: my twitch could constantly buffer and when it would play, i'd be so delayed which would never let me watch anything and this gets rid of that + ads so whoever made this is a god send
• (2023-09-13) Luke “Aardvark” H: Blocked twitch ads and kept stream on 1080p during midrolls.
• (2023-09-11) Blue Wallpaper: does not work i see ads and it's only black out the ads not Block it and i see a box in the top left corner said hiding ads than the stream Stop working for 4 min
• (2023-09-09) 002 (‪Riand‬): Баллы не работают! Сундуки даже не появляются! Единственное это работает просмотр в реальном времени.
• (2023-08-27) James Fullard: This extension does not stop ads, all it does is when an ad begins the stream just sits and buffers till the ads finish. total waste of time to sue this.
• (2023-08-23) Bryce Pirie: current bugs / broken features list: - clip function. - follow button from within the extension. - ad blocking feature. - bug preventing send feedback to report bugs to the developer option from working. - bug preventing channel points from being gained. ( although channel points gained from raids / predictions / and chat bot rewards are still obtainable. ). - bug preventing drops from working / appearing. ( watchtime within the extension player no longer counts toward their completion. ) - bug preventing channel watch streaks from working / getting claimed. - bug causing stream delay to keep bouncing / spiking between low and high amounts. ( anywhere from around 3 seconds to upwards of 13 seconds. ). - bug causing stream bit rate to decrease at random. - even at low stream delay. - bug / broken feature causing the polling interval to go above 4 seconds, rendering it near impossible to get even remotely low stream delay. ( even if the buffer size is set to 1.5 seconds, the stream delay is still forced larger than 7 seconds at lowest. ). - even the workaround stream delay fix i mentioned in the replies can't counter this. - bug causing stream delay to average 3.8 seconds to 6 seconds despite having the buffer size set to 1.5 seconds. ( average should be 2.5 seconds to 4 seconds of stream delay at most. ). - bug causing the stream delay to be persistently forced above 4 seconds across most channels, even when buffer-size and start playback are set to 1.5 seconds, the buffer overflow set to 9 seconds, and having it set to 3 simultaneous downloads to reduce the loadage. ( rarely goes below 4 seconds of stream delay even with everything set as low as it can go, and even then the low delay doesn't last long. ). - bug causing queues of 0.6 and downwards to cause the stream to buffer, then stream delay spikes to upwards of 6 seconds even while on the lowest delay settings. - bug causing the error screen " the channel with the specified name does not exist " message to appear across channels frequently, despite no change to their names being made. ( luckily fixable by tab refresh, for now. ). - new bug as of the google chrome update on ( 23 / 07 / 23 - DD / MM / YY ) upon refreshing the tab, the twitch chat will often fail to connect ( shows error message " twitch tv refused to connect " ), it occurs on raid outs too. ( for now it can be fixed by refreshing the tab until it loads the chat, luckily. ). the bug occurs either on every 2nd refresh, or for upwards of 6 refreshes in an row. - bug with using the extension after disabling an adblocker. ( i turned off ublock origin to see if it would restore the bttv emote panel icon ( bug fixed as of 15 / 08 / 2023 ), however upon refreshing the tab it stopped the extension from working altogether. ). - turning ublock origin back on and going back via browser history has seemed to restore the extension player tab, however it is still concerning that it just stopped working like that. - bug rendering most of the play / pause button to be unclickable. ( can still be clicked on from the upper right corner of the button, but the rest cannot be clicked on. ). this bug seems to be fixed after the latest google chrome update ( 16 / 08 / 23 - DD / MM / YY ), however as i still don't know the initial cause of the bug, i'll keep it listed just in case it were to ever return. - rare bug causing an red error screen, the same one that occured back when i set the browser cache size to its maximum, except this time it happened all on its own. ( though i couldn't send the error log to the dev since that function is still broken. ). refreshing fixed it though, but still concerning it happened, probably due to twitch using more cpu and RAM than it used to, since as of recent i've had to install an automatic RAM cleaner to run in the background just to have the same amount of streams going as i used to. ( without the automatic RAM cleaner, every stream tab ends up showing the purple error screen upon clicking on it. ). there are potentially more things needing to be fixed, but other than these, the extension works perfectly fine. - although still missing a few features / functions ( VOD support / fully functional raid system " currently only the chat swaps over " / whisper function / influenceable video overlay " basically allowing other extensions to apply filters and effects over the video to make it look better " for example the " Video Image Control ( new gamma ) " browser extension / and support for stream addons " or extensions as the twitch page calls them, they're the things that allow for greater interactivity with the stream ( like the crowd control and the cult of the lamb character creator ). an " auto-optimise " option would also be nice, since having to manually refresh the tab and player a few hundred times to get the stream delay down is rather tedious. - still better than having to deal with the base twitch site though. - please, if any more bugs and broken features occur, list them below so the dev can fix them.
• (2023-08-18) ZiCo: Très utile, l'extension m'aide beaucoup pour visionner les streams sur Twitch sans laguer. Je recommande très fortement. Je lui met 5 étoiles malgré quelques beugues que j'ai relevé : - Je ne gagne plus de points de chaînes quand je regarde un live lorsque j'utilise l'extension. - Le bouton de l'interface pour créer un clip ne fonctionne pas. - L'option pour suivre et arrêter de suivre dans le panel d'information de la chaîne ne fonctionne pas. Merci beaucoup d'avoir créer cette extension. 😁
• (2023-08-12) Dave galiana sotillo: Amazing extension!
• (2023-08-05) FatDidz: I want to like this extension, but the lag is just so unbearable....
• (2023-08-05) Scene: Still doesn't support 7tv emotes. To the idiot that told me to install FFZ/7tv, they're installed and work on the regular player but not the alternate player.
• (2023-08-03) Chad Hermann: This does not work well at all. It is constantly pausing and a little icon on top left says "hiding ads" there is no stream that plays ads every 15 seconds. I want to give this a good rating but it just does not work properly. I would rather sit through ads then have to refresh my browser every 15 seconds because this player pauses all the time.
• (2023-07-10) タメル: 15秒ほどローディングが入って配信が表示される チャンネルポイントが増えない dropsも進行しない
• (2023-06-21) Jose Rodriguez: Thanks gos it's back
• (2023-06-19) Joao Vitor Cidaco Silva: nao funciona
• (2023-06-18) bilet domoy: Функция скрывать чат не работает чат все равно подгружается, можно ли добавить функцию полного отключения чата. Цену вопроса можем обсудить по почте.
• (2023-06-14) Evgeniy: Nice ext. +1 for the fox on the preview image.
• (2023-06-12) Steve McCarthy: I never write these but thanks for the fix devs!
• (2023-06-10) Johnny Wei: Outdated, doesn't support 7TV emotes, doesn't automatically claim channel point drops. Is this extension still being worked on?
• (2023-06-07) Anders JPG: Works great. But it does not lately work towards drops.
• (2023-06-06) Pancake Pancake: totally outdated, and no github source so no possibility to fork it
• (2023-06-05) Matias Silva: Excelente extensión, lo mejor para Twitch, me gustaría que también tengan para YouTube en vivo, se los agradecería, gracias
• (2023-06-04) Ampact Prime: put this thing on github, someone needs to maintain this thing, it died for me 4-6 days ago, great extension though for twitch, cheers.
• (2023-06-04) Michael Gawlowski: Great extension, not watching twitch without it
• (2023-06-03) Dylan Lind: i have been using for a long time now and love it especially the fact that when twitch did some axing to this extension and it stopped working within a couples days you guys got it back up and working. GREAT WORK
• (2023-06-03) вчlєѕѕ: This extension is the best in it's category. Thanks for making it. It does lacks some modernity in it's UI but it's not a big deal for me. If you improve UI, then this is the one that twitch.tv needs.
• (2023-06-03) Антон Карпов: хорош
• (2023-06-02) Perry: thx
• (2023-06-02) Matheus Nunes: Não funciona mais.
• (2023-06-02) Roman Kolesnikov: Спасибо за починку. Почините еще кнопку поддержать разработчика.
• (2023-06-02) dylonji: since today it only shows "Broadcast ended" edit. working again
• (2023-06-02) vyzarion ryon: La aplicacion dejo de funcionar el 31 de mayo, sospechosamente al mismo tiempo que otras aplicaciones de bloqueo para twitch dejaron de funcionar, y no hay comentarios del desarrollador, estara abandonado? alguna noticia? saludos
• (2023-06-01) Eric Whang: Blocking these dog water ads.