SafeTwitch is a privacy respecting frontend for twitch.tv
The main advantages of SafeTwitch are:
- Private: Every request is proxied through the server, and no logs are kept.
- Lightweight: Compared to twitch, SafeTwitch is optimized for speed and usability.
You can find an instance to use here!
It is impossible to use Twitch without being bombarded with tons of ads, multiple trackers, and enourmous page sizes and loading times. This project aims to fix these issues, by removing all trackers, have much smaller page sizes, and very fast loading times.
- No connection to twitch/amazon
- Lightweight on server and client
- No Ads or tracking
- No outside connections, only connection is the instance
- Uses Vue for a speedy experience
- No logs
- Much smaller pages compared to Twitch (<1.6mb with images compared to >8.2mb)
- Follow streamers locally to have a more personalized feel
- Infinite scrolling
- Proxied WebSocket IRC
- Public API
- No official APIs are used
- No rate limiting
- Uses a custom Twitch webscraper
It's not all sunshine and rainbows though, and still has various cons, including
- SafeTwitch was a learning project
- Uses Vue, which relies on Javascript
You aren't forced to use SafeTwitch, so use whatever suits you the most! Heres some other notable twitch projects
- Xtra, a Twitch client focused on providing the best viewing and chatting experience on mobile devices
- Twire, an ad free Twitch browser and stream player for Android.
- Streamlink Twitch Gui, A multi platform Twitch.tv browser for Streamlink
- Twineo, A alternative twitch frontend
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