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Do alternative frontends for twitch exist (like pstube/freetube/piped for YT)?

Do you recommend some or know how to find out? To be more privacy-friendly ofc

EDIT: -possibly working with addons like ublock (vern cc has ad breaks) and emote support (so chat isnt a cryptic jungle)

-Primarily on desktop, but additional app welcome

-Possibly not even communicating with Amazon (like for YT for example only psTube does to my understanding)

QUESTION: Could it possibly work to still participate in the chats (like i imagine a throwaway account for example) or does that break the whole concept of privacy? How does that work exactly.

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You can watch live streams or recorded streams with mpv coupled with the yt-dlp program right from the command line! This is only for watching though, I am not sure about chatting, but as far as I know, Twitch uses IRC, so theoretically, you could join with an IRC client, but you might need an account for it. This last part might be less about privacy but more moving away from the website.

https://ttv.vern.cc/
- possibly working with addons like ublock (vern cc has ad breaks) and emote support (so chat isnt a cryptic jungle)
  EDIT: added more description to my interest in the EDIT of the post
  
  I honestly dont know, I never use twitch. I use the add-on Libredirect to auto use alternative frontends.

https://codeberg.org/SafeTwitch/safetwitch
- Could it possibly work to still participate in the chats (like i imagine a build in throwaway account for example) or does that break the whole concept of privacy? How does that work exactly.
  also: anyone got emotes and other browser plug-ins to work on the player/site?
  Thank you for your contribution all!
  
  twitch chat is just a (lightly modified) irc server
  you can use most irc clients to chat, though it's a few more steps to connect than using it in browser

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.andreyasadchy.xtra/
- I use this, it's pretty good
- doesnt mention privacy, it even lists telemetry as an anti-feature
  In what way is the app more privacy-friendly?
  
  No ads, open-source code

I tend to use GrayJay. But i've never used it for twitch. I do however see there is a beta version for twitch on the app ^^ (it's a all in one app so it does support YouTube, oddysey, kick and basically anything you can think of)

GrayJay

I use grayjay to watch twitch as i already use it to watch youtube. It works fine. Their privacy policy.

For android TV check out S0undTV
- Seconding this, I also get a lot less ads with S0undtv and to get rid of the rest I just VPN to an ad free country and it works flawlessly.

Stream link twitch GUI is by far the best I have seen. Has chat plugin too (or uses chatterino)
- Could it possibly work to still participate in the chats (like i imagine a throwaway account for example) or does that break the whole concept of privacy? How does that work exactly.
  Thank you for your contribution!
  
  Not positive I mean an account will always be less private but I imagine you could use a burner

They definitely exist, i use PurpleTV,but I can't say how privacy friendly or actually good is it (I barely use it)

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