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SafeTwitch

SafeTwitch is a privacy respecting frontend for twitch.tv.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Platforms

  • Online
  • Self-Hosted
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Features

Properties

  1.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  No Tracking

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SafeTwitch information

  • Developed by

    dragongoose

  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.

  • Alternatives

    4 alternatives listed

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Spanish
    • Polish
    • Italian
    • French
    • Portuguese
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What is SafeTwitch?

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.

But why? It is impossible to use Twitch without being bombarded with tons of ads, multiple trackers, and enormous 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.

Features

User features

  • [x] No connection to twitch/amazon
  • [x] Lightweight on server and client
  • [x] No Ads or tracking
  • [x] No outside connections, only connection is the instance
  • [x] Uses Vue for a speedy experience
  • [x] No logs
  • [x] Much smaller pages compared to Twitch (<1.6mb with images compared to >8.2mb)
  • [x] Follow streamers locally to have a more personalized feel
  • [x] Infinite scrolling
  • [x] Proxied WebSocket IRC

Technical features

  • [x] Public API
  • [x] No official APIs are used
  • [x] No rate limiting
  • [x] Uses a custom Twitch webscraper

It's not all sunshine and rainbows though, and still has various cons, including

  • SafeTwitch was a learning project
  • dragongoose is silly (can't even drive yet 😔)
  • Uses Vue, which relies on JavaScript