I've been enjoying the Alternate player for years & it works well than the default site, sadly it's getting destroyed by 1440p encryption. Hopefully it gets updated to deal with 1440p streams.

Was working quite well until recently, it will now infinitlely buffer while ads are playing instead of hiding them like usual. I would suggest finding an alternative, as the last update was some time ago.

Still a great extension. I moved over to Firefox just to be able to still use it. Only downside is more people started steaming in 2k, so a lot of streams I cant watch because of the encryption.

This broadcast is encrypted. The Alternate Player for Twitch.tv extension does not support encrypted broadcasts. Click the “Back” button to return to the previous page.

It works well at blocking ads but the typing area in the chat window will no longer work as of last week. It was perfect before that.

Update: As of 11-30-25 its working for me with no problems.

Overall, a shady addon.

1. Addon has BSD license without source code linked.
2. It sends telemetry, unique persistent device fingerprint, device, screen, date and time, time zone, CPU, GPU, languages information when you try to send a report.
3. Contrary to its policy (coolcmd.github.io/privacy.html#tw5-en), you cannot refuse to include the data, only refuse to send the report altogether.
4. The server URL is not disclosed: r90354g8.beget.tech/tw5/report3.php
5. Chat in the extension page doesn't save theme across browser sessions.

EDIT: you can still see the extension's code in the browser, it's not minified. IT'S IN RUSSIAN (yes, the whole code, not just the comments).

```
if (!лБыстро) {
м_Преобразователь.Остановить();
м_Проигрыватель.Остановить();
м_Помойка.Сжечь();
}
м_Журнал.Окак('[Запускалка] Работа завершена');

Проверить(!г_лРаботаЗавершена);
м_Журнал.Вот(`[Запускалка] Начало работы ${performance.now().toFixed()}мс`);
```

Just found that this extension is causing me to be unable to watch Amazon Prime videos. Each video would show some message like "That shouldn't have happened." I tried a few troubleshooting steps but nothing helped. Disabling this addon made it so i can watch amazon stuff again.

Everything works flawlessly now. (as of jan 27, 2026) Only issue I have is that it auto-opens the player and doesn't revert with ?twitch5=0 when it notices that there's already one open. Oh, yeah, also pls add middle clicking support on the upper bar cuz it currently makes the UI disappear.
edit: watch streaks are no longer functional when watching through the html5 player

Can't receive twitch drops via extension. Fix pls, otherwise great extension.

More and more bugs, now the chat doesn’t work anymore, please do an update

Please update for 1440P streams. Also, I don't think this works anymore for twitch drops.

I decided after having issues with Twitch again today to give this addon a try. Now I remember that I've tried this addon before for Firefox and I wish I could say that I could give this more than a 1-star but it doesn't work. I've tried figuring it out to be sure it wasn't me and I checked the other reviews here, but other folks seem to have problems getting this addon to function and play a live Twitch stream. To the author of the addon, if this addon worked once before, it sadly did not work for me more than a year ago and doesn't work now.

Really nice but PLEASE UPDATE so 1440p works

Once good, now terrible. Can't make a simple update to view 1440p streams. Trying to open more than 1 player at the same time takes ages. God forbid you try to load a few streams at once, you might as well go read "war and peace" before they load.