[Rankin] ... Kevin Durant continuing to address #NBA viewership being down. "I take this serious. I'm locked in as to why people don't want to watch us play."

https://x.com/DuaneRankin/status/1872176949801504956?t=sOlhzun3lYo5ImePn8Xpwg&s=19

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u/JustADutchRudder Timberwolves 1d ago

Last 3 years I've been getting my nephew into the Wolves. Going to games, getting him cards to learn the team and all that. His biggest complaint is that he never gets to watch games since his parents don't have cable, just rabbit ears and Netflix. He's only 13, so I don't wanna show him illegal streams since they always have porn pop ups or things he'd click and ruin his mom's computer. So he watches YouTube clips.

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u/TheDustyRob 1d ago edited 1d ago

This is why I've never believed that the majority of fans have switched to pirate streams despite reddits insistence otherwise. No half decent parent is gonna sit down with their kids and stream from a site where all of the ads are about horny milfs and anime titties.

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u/_Puff_Puff_Pass 1d ago

Been pirating sports for years. Have never seen an anime titty, porn or horny milf ads. What streams are you using?! 😂

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u/2ABB Vancouver Grizzlies 1d ago

I agree that a decent Adblock will avoid all the images.

However even when you’re blocking the ads, there are still chatrooms that show up next to the stream with some unhinged slur spammers.

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u/jda404 NBA 1d ago

However even when you’re blocking the ads, there are still chatrooms that show up next to the stream with some unhinged slur spammers.

That's fair. I plug my laptop into my TV and watch the streams at full screen, for one watching it at full screen is way better of a viewing experience, but also when it's full screen you can't see the annoying chat going on, at least for the stream sites I use to watch sports.

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u/2ABB Vancouver Grizzlies 1d ago

Yeah if it’s full screen you don’t see it. But when you first open the page you can, or if there’s an issue with it and you need to refresh etc.

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u/Lunien 1d ago

You can block the chat elements too, it's one or two more steps, but it gives you basically the best experience (no ads, no chat)

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u/2ABB Vancouver Grizzlies 1d ago

I’ve blocked the chat elements on some sites at times but after a few weeks they reappear

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u/Lunien 1d ago

What is your block script for the element?

I've done "www.youtube.com###chat" and you could probably do "www.twitch.tv/embed/XXXXX/$subdocument" (or /chat instead of $subdocument) where XXX is the channel the chat is connected to.

I also have "www.youtube.com###panels-full-bleed-container" but I forget why lol

If not yeah sometimes it's a bit "whack-a-mole" where they change things up and you just gotta update it.