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Livestream Viewing resolved with hash?
12 years ago
Sorry if this is too rarified but I'm wondering if there's any information about this, since a lot of furries watch streamed artwork using Livestream.
I don't like ads so I always redirect a ton of hostnames using my hosts file. When I do this, if I go to a livestream URL (http://www.livestream.com/redsilver for example) I can see the chat and I can see an image, but it updates only once per minute and keeps the spinning circle metaphor in the middle. I figured this was Livestream being an ass and blocking me from normal viewing because they couldn't air ads to me.
I recently discovered that if I add a hash at the end of the URL (http://www.livestream.com/redsilver#) then the livestream session loads and acts normally. I'm not into web development but I am guessing that livestream is using ajax and that I am telling it to do something weird by passing it a hash with no anchor. Does anyone have a better guess or know what's going on?
I don't like ads so I always redirect a ton of hostnames using my hosts file. When I do this, if I go to a livestream URL (http://www.livestream.com/redsilver for example) I can see the chat and I can see an image, but it updates only once per minute and keeps the spinning circle metaphor in the middle. I figured this was Livestream being an ass and blocking me from normal viewing because they couldn't air ads to me.
I recently discovered that if I add a hash at the end of the URL (http://www.livestream.com/redsilver#) then the livestream session loads and acts normally. I'm not into web development but I am guessing that livestream is using ajax and that I am telling it to do something weird by passing it a hash with no anchor. Does anyone have a better guess or know what's going on?
Just saiyan.
I'll try to hash it too and see what happens, that's an easy fix.
I'm not averse to an occasional ad. It's a small bit of annoyance that nonetheless makes the whole system possible, so I'm fine.
But sometimes livestream goes -crazy- and the ads never go away, *click*click*click* *lower* *remove* and it pops back almost immediately. It gets crazy sometimes. That could be useful, because I -do- block ads once they reach an annoyance threshold.