Twitch to Allow Streamers , to Stop Some Users From
Watching Their Streams.
Currently, streamers can ban users from their chats on Twitch but can't stop them from viewing streams.
Next month, an update will allow streamers to
keep banned users from also viewing their streams. .
The long-requested feature will kick
banned users "out of chat and live
streams in real time," The Verge reports. .
Once a user is banned, they will
automatically lose access to streams.
At the time being it won’t stop them from viewing VODs or clips, but that is something we also want to include as part of this functionality... in a future update, Trevor Fisher, Twitch senior product manager, via Patch Notes stream.
However, The Verge points out that banned users have a workaround for continuing to watch streams.
This is because Twitch still lets
anyone without an account tune in.
So if a user gets banned and
still wants access to streams, .
all they have to do is log out of their account
"or use a browser incognito window,"
The Verge reports. .
It remains to be seen whether future
updates will address this issue as well