A Ruffle anecdote: I know websites ship Ruffle, but I've also had the Firefox extension installed for some old sites that do not. I recently had to disable it because it made Twitch claim that my browser is too old to use their website. I'm assuming they check for Flash support, and somehow that trumps everything else they use to identify the browser version. Pretty pathetic, honestly.
Also pretty funny if true
I agree, hilarious check. Someone realized that the set of browsers you probably don’t want to support today, and the Flash supporting browsers … the Venn diagram is actually a circle
Amazing. Literally the opposite of what you're supposed to do, which is detect individual feature support and upgrade the experience when possible, while gracefully degrading as much as possible when features aren't present.
Twitch is a big category in the enshittification category. They're endlessly user hostile. I want to force management to use their own products
The money people probably just told them "more ads. I don't care how you do it - more ads"
I have a Twitch account that I can't log into due. They'll send me an e-mail with my username in it but won't send me the password reset e-mail. Their support will acknowledge that I clearly have access to the inbox and will refuse to help or do anything for me to recover my account. They are beyond worthless.
At least you can still use the chat from an IRC client and view streams in mpv. If they ruin those aspects I'll probably quit going there. I did also stream on there a bit in the past, but didn't get too attached or locked in, so mostly I care about the viewer experience still.
>you can still use the chat from an IRC client and view streams in mpv
I bet it's only because they forgot they had such a feature. Like RSS feeds on Reddit.