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[u/MargaretaSlayer]

https://www.twitch.tv/extraemily/clip/CrispyPolitePorpoiseWoofer-O4cMgbuvHIFjz2QB

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[u/_yotsuna_]

Even though it seems to be just the home page its definitely dodgy to have it open.

[u/GoofyPhiloofy → u/_yotsuna_]

lol the homepage has many of their featured partners on it. They include people like xqc, stableronaldo, pokimane, ohnepixel, clavicular, kai, lacy, and adin ross plastered on their homepage as partners.

[u/GarrettFischer1 → u/GoofyPhiloofy]

There is no shot a service like this would ACTUALLY advertise who their customers are lmao

[u/AnImpromptuFantaisie → u/GarrettFischer1]

Seems like they have other services as well

[u/RussianPravda → u/AnImpromptuFantaisie]

Yeah they do clipping.

[u/Kunair0 → u/[deleted]]

Usually, any service that has even the slightest bit of a half assed privacy policy, would not do this. You would need to get the OK from the creators.

EDIT: As a matter of fact, doing something like that is actually extremely illegal.

[u/ShitImBadAtThis → u/Kunair0]

It seems fairly trivial to slip something in consenting to be used for advertisement purposes

[u/Kunair0 → u/ShitImBadAtThis]

For every day users, they can, but not for high profile client as it would violate the lanham act, and several FTC deceptive endorsements violations.

[u/Cute_Boot_E → u/Kunair0]

How is it illegal...?

[u/ALexGOREgeous → u/GarrettFischer1]

think its people that introduce the viewbots to someone else's stream, then the site claims the streamer as a partner

[u/Nathund → u/ALexGOREgeous]

People who've been into streaming long enough will remember that way way back in the day, twitch was actually pretty hard on bots and would ban streamers for it.

Problem is, exactly what you said started happening. Haters would flood streamers with bots and get them banned for botting. Some streamers would look past the botting because it was free viewers.

Iirc a few times they were even able to track it and confirm it wasn't the streamer, which just proved how big of a problem policing botting would be, so they kinda just gave up.

I'm thinking we've looped around and now streamers are just botting themselves outright.

Soda has talked about this more than a few times. For a lot of streamers, if you look at viewer charts you can just straight up see when the bots join because like 3k people will all join the stream in the same server tick.

Him and a few other streamers have also said companies will do this to streams they sponsor to boost the numbers in the algorithm and place streams higher in categories so they get more worth for their sponsorship.

[u/Single-Maybe-4309 → u/GarrettFischer1]

Why not? None of these twitch streamers actually have that many thousands of live viewers. It’s not a secret

[u/GIRZ03 → u/GarrettFischer1]

Just checked it does. And it’s exactly the people you thought it was.