I got insta-banned from Twitch.tv – for – (wait for it) – logging into my account using Tor!

I’m such a horrible person, aren’t I? Anonymizing my IP address…

I know this because I did so last night to check up on things and to get ready for the weekend. As soon as I logged in, there was a little banner pop-up saying that I’d been sent a verification e-mail. I go get the verification e-mail, click the link verify my account. All is well, right? Wrong. About a minute later my entire session is replaced with a little “You have been banned” message on an otherwise blank page. So, I guess I won’t be streaming using Twitch this weekend.

I’ve seen some (understandably) cautious behavior from sites like Facebook asking me security questions when I would appear to be logging in from another country. I’ve gotten the passive aggressive silent treatment from Youtube not playing any videos (which is really more of a technical problem of some videos not being encoded for tor-friendly streaming). I have never before gotten outright hostility such as this.

Leaving my tinfoil hat off with regard to this, but suffice to say, the site no longer adequately meets my requirements for security and privacy.

tl;dr – screw Twitch.tv.

I’ll use autoscreenshot or something to grab screenies every 10-15 seconds or so and make a video from that.