codl (problems) @codl@chitter.xyz

f in the chat for those who never get the chance
they show up to the stream but they're never asked to dance

i thought very hard about taking this vine instead https://vine.co/v/OYUApAdV3W2

absolute classic

i have decided. i will be taking not so fast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFdE__2OKc8

oh.. i can't decide. i thought this would be easy but it is not

if you had to go live on a desert island and you could only take one funny video with you which one would it be

pyramid of needs but it's just

Funny video
Lunch

I swear I did not spend two and a half hours looking at captured traffic I just get distracted easily by things like "lunch" or "funny video"

and they can do this quietly. they could keep the public numbers unchanged, including muted players, but take the muted status into account when deciding which streams bubble up to the front page

in the end i think the worry is that they *can* do this. i am fairly confident that they're not doing this, to me and my browser at least, but nothing stops them from flipping a switch one day to make a muted player add a new flag in hls traffic (which i suspect is where they are doing their beancounting) so that it is ignored in counting

youd think the scorecardresearch beacons would be the most obvious culprit but if they were then twitch wouldn't count any viewers using some form of tracker blocker. also i doubt they'd get near real time numbers like they do

anyway the only thing in there that seems to change ever after the page is done loading, regardless of muting status, are a bunch of monotonically increasing timers, i assume counting time on page

i don't like that i cant definitely say "they are not doing this" because there are half a dozen ways they could obfuscate it, but the only things going out after initial load are
1) beacons to scorecardresearch
2) gql queries refreshing presence, stream id, stream tags, stream access token
3) pings (and chat) on the chat websocket
4) pings on the pubsub websocket
5) HLS requests

none of them have anything that changes when muting or unmuting

Chuck E3 Cheese

pk tout le monde klaxonne

keskispass

before you ask yes this is going out to gql.twitch.tv, no as far as i can tell there is no request interception in ffz turning it into a query to somewhere else

there's also a FFZ_GetClipInfo and a FFZ_GetVideoInfo

what i did uncover however is that twitch has private APIs just for FFZ

well 20 minutes of investigation did not uncover a tracker flag that changes when a stream is muted (which honestly surprises me) so unless it's obfuscated somewhere in requests to video-edge-* or video-weaver-*, i dont think they care

i still remember when you could "bot" people on twitch to add a few hundred thousand viewers to their counter

though i wonder if more complicated viewer count heuristics kick in once you get out of the sub-10 viewer count zone. which i do not

actually! i know this isn't true because when you stream to zero viewers, your little preview on the dashboard counts as one viewer, and it's muted by default