Most companies don't actually have a problem with streamers as it's free advertising for their games. Although if it's negative they may use this angle to try to censor. Which can lead to the Streisand effect.

ContentID sometimes still triggers on the background music in some games.

It's like spectator sports, but the audience may also be a player of the game.

I never got the appeal of spectator sports but I do like to watch someone skilled play a game, so that I can learn from it and become better myself.

Although frankly, I prefer watching stuff that's pre-recorded so I can skip through boring and mundane bits. At the cost of not being able to interact with the broadcaster. But let's face it, that never really happens in the really popular channels anyway, you just get drowned in the flood of chat, and the chat ends up being ignored by the player, and there is only conversation between spectators.

Yet we keep coming back here.

AdNauseam is all about this poisoning of the well: https://dhowe.github.io/AdNaus...

http://uk.businessinsider.com/...

Public prosecutor got fired over it.

What other verb would you use? English is not my first language.

Feature or not, that's a matter of perspective.

http://www.thelocal.de/2015073...

Fact checking? Nah. Hype sells!

Software, and copying machines too, detect something like this and refuse to continue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Of course, this is not fool-proof at all and can be circumvented by simply using older versions, or self-compiled versions lacking this "feature".

Eh, sometimes it's all you have because you know how much developers like writing documentation.

Block ads if you find them obnoxious. Force content providers.

Something animating in the corner of my vision is annoying enough, let alone something that produces sound.

Not html5 video and audio, like Youtube.

You don't even need a plugin or addon for it, it's part of your browser!

It's called "Ask to activate" in Firefox, not sure about Chrome.

That reminds me, you can actually mute the flash process separately too, at least in Windows.

This is true, I tend to watch sports for the fit bodies.

Same reason I watch porn.

Set flash to 'click to play'. This solves almost all instances of it, and also solves supercookies etc.