Twitch accused of being greedy by adding \u2018Purple Screen of Death\u2019 to embeds TwitchTwitch has been accused of being greedy by streamers and a former staff member after they implemented an unskippable \u201cPurple Screen of Death\u201d in embeds, telling viewers to go onto the actual Twitch site. Twitch has experienced more traffic than it ever has before in the past year. With 1 trillion minutes watched on the site, 26.5 average daily viewers, and over 6 million unique creators streaming each month, 2020 was certainly a successful period. With this increase in traffic, the company has also been making changes to their terms of service, and the general operation of the site. But not everyone has been a fan of some of the changes that have been introduced. The so-called \u2018Purple Screen of Death\u2019 refers to a notice that pops up when watching a Twitch embed on an external website, which says: \u201cif you\u2019re seeing this and you\u2019re not already on twitch.tv, click here to get the best Twitch experience.\u201d They also explain that users with ad-block may find the message appears even if they are watching on the actual site, and encourage those people to turn off ad blocker because \u201cthese third-party tools can affect Twitch\u2019s performance.\u201d The pop-up is 30 seconds long and cannot be skipped, which naturally poses huge problems for many viewers, as significant parts of streams and events can be totally obstructed. It\u2019s not just viewers who are getting frustrated. Member of the founding team of Twitch from 2011-2018, Ben Goldhaber, posted a thread on Twitter speaking out about the issue, tweeting: \u201cI\u2019ve hesitated to be the one to make a public statement about this, but I feel like I have to say something.\u201d He explained that the pop-up, \u201ccompletely ruins the experience and makes embeds a vastly inferior way to engage with streams.\u201d Ben also reminded readers that embeds are mutually beneficial for creators, viewers, and Twitch themselves. The #TwitchPSoD would be disruptive if it only showed up for the first 30 seconds. But it pops up every 15 minutes\u2026 and can override a big team fight or hype moment. This *completely* ruins the experience and makes embeds a vastly inferior way to engage with streams. \ud83d\ude26 \u2014 Ben Goldhaber (@FishStix) January 29, 2021 \u201cViews count towards their metric, embeds allow for users to subscribe and follow a channel directly. Developers are creating new experiences around the Twitch player, and facilitating discovery for new communities,\u201d he explained. Views count towards their metric, embeds allow for users to subscribe and follow a channel directly. Developers are creating new experiences around the Twitch player, and facilitating discovery for new communities. \u2014 Ben Goldhaber (@FishStix) January 29, 2021 Esports insider Rod \u2018Slasher\u2019 Breslau also had some choice words for the company, saying: \u201cTwitch has added a purple screen of death and popups to embed streams not to combat viewership inflation or fake views, but purely for greed.\u201d He went on to say: \u201cin turn all Twitch has done is hurt legitimate platforms and communities such Juked, TeamLiquid, and HLTV \u201d Twitch has added a purple screen of death and popups to embed streams not to combat viewership inflation or fake views, but purely for greed. and in turn all Twitch has done is hurt legitimate platforms and communities such Juked, TeamLiquid, and HLTV https:\/\/t.co\/jxmjPrXf4k pic.twitter.com\/G9CnjFiAWM \u2014 Rod Breslau (@Slasher) January 30, 2021 This issue regarding the interruption of Twitch embeds is undoubtedly a hugely frustrating one for many, and the fact that former employees are speaking out on the issue takes the backlash against Twitch to a new level. Whether the feature will be adjusted or scrapped altogether as a result of the backlash is yet unclear, but it\u2019s unlikely that viewers and creators alike will be willing to let it go any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch accused of being greedy by adding \u2018Purple Screen of Death\u2019 to embeds TwitchTwitch has been accused of being greedy by streamers and a former staff member after they implemented an unskippable \u201cPurple Screen of Death\u201d in embeds, telling viewers to go onto the actual Twitch site. Twitch has experienced more traffic than it ever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}