I got insta-banned from Twitch.tv – for – (wait for it) – logging into my account using Tor!<\/p>\n
I’m such a horrible person, aren’t I? Anonymizing my IP address…<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
tl;dr<\/strong> – screw Twitch.tv.<\/p>\n I’ll use autoscreenshot or something to grab screenies every 10-15 seconds or so and make a video from that.<\/p>\n <\/p>","time":"August 23rd, 2013 8:09 am","title":"will not be livestreaming this weekend"}