instance01 / Twitch-HLS-AdBlock

Block advertisements that are inserted in Twitch streams directly.
MIT License
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Extension causes request flood to Twitch #9

Closed notr1ch closed 4 years ago

notr1ch commented 5 years ago

When the extension is waiting for the non-ad playlist, it floods playlist requests to Twitch at a rate which could be considered a DoS attack. While waiting 30 seconds for an ad, I saw over 3400 requests and almost 100MB of playlist files downloaded.

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