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  1. This has been posted before and will likely fall on deaf ears again because there's money involved. But here I go trying anyway.

    Stop requiring users to hand over their phone numbers just to chat. I know bot problems are a convenient excuse to force this on people, but I still don't agree with it.

    I'm a paying customer. Have been for years now. Why do I still need to prove my authenticity by giving Twitch my phone number? Oh I know. Because data-brokers pay well.

    Let me put it this way: If I'm paying money for a service and…

    10 votes

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  2. Allot of different websites offer this feature, but, how about making it so that if you somehow in someway can't login to your account after reporting missing credentials, it will offer you the chance to send the email about (e.g resetting your password) to an email that you can access.

    9 votes

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  3. As everyone knows, Twitch is rolling out with AI features and is trying to train itself using content that their own creators to enhance it. There is already an opt-out option for some of it under "Security and Privacy Settings" in the creator dashboard. It's automatically on by default, and many Twitch creators has already disabled it. However, looking further into the Twitch Privacy Notice and the FAQs, this opt-out does NOT mean that creators are already out of this abrasive policy.

    According to the FAQ (https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/twitch-account-settings#FAQ); the opt-out does not cover everything AI. It does allow for…

    8 votes

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  4. Twitch.tv, recently implemented an automatic 'opt-in' feature where all user-generated content on the platform is used to train Amazon's AI models. This includes live streams, clips, chat messages, and voice data.

    Users are required to manually 'opt-out' of this feature; otherwise, it remains enabled by default. I strongly believe this practice violates the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its core principles. Under GDPR, processing personal data, which includes biometric data like voices and faces, as well as identifiable chat logs, requires explicit, informed, and unambiguous consent. An automatic opt-in default fails to meet the legal standard for consent.…

    8 votes

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  5. Why, after ten years of chatting on Twitch with a verified email address, is Twitch blocking me from every single Twitch chat unless I give my phone number? I've been on great behavior for my entire time on Twitch, so why did Twitch impose this on my account a few months ago? Twitch has not given any reason, and I don't want to provide both my email address and phone number to Twitch.

    I've contacted the owners of certain channels who I know on other websites and they've confirmed that they didn't turn on the phone verification setting, so this…

    8 votes

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  6. Not entirely sure what category this falls under, but, I'll describe the issue I am currently facing.

    I can't verify my account:

    My new-ish phone number is tied to an account with a bogus username and email that doesn't belong to me. I'm stuck in a position where I can't disassociate the phone number with the fraudulent account.

    In order to do so, I need access to the account and this is where things get tricky.

    You can log in with your phone number via the app. If you don't know the username, you can have a text sent to…

    8 votes

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  7. When you sign up for a new account you are asked to input a one time code through email.

    Please implement the One Time Code for ALL, EXISITING & NEW accounts when logging in.

    Context: I do not have an active cell phone, I live in an area that does not receive SMS Text for the login code, therefore I can't use Authy either. I've been trying to log back into my account for about 3 weeks at this point with help from friends, but to no avail it didn't work.

    Conclusion: Please implement this into the login system, it…

    8 votes

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  8. I @hylitiz have over 10y of active email-verified account history with Twitch and recently started seeing "Verified Accounts Only Chat" in every streamer, regardless of what the streamer's stream setting was. (I have confirmed with 4 streams on their chat verification settings).

    Please unblock my account. I do not feel there is a need to provide my phone number to Twitch to "verify" me.

    6 votes

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  9. I have been struggling to verify my account because twitch is asking me for my phone number and whenever I ask a 6-digit code to be sent in my sms, I get LITERALLY nothing. And this has been a problem for me for months. Is there a way for Twitch to fix this issue? pls i am begging hhh

    6 votes

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  10. Dear Twitch Team,

    First of all, thank you for continuously working to improve the security and user experience on your platform. However, I’d like to bring attention to a significant issue with the phone number verification system that has been affecting many users, including myself.

    For the past two weeks, I have been unable to verify my account because the verification code is not being sent to my registered phone number. This has left me locked out of certain features and has caused unnecessary frustration.

    While I understand the importance of account verification for security, the current system can be…

    6 votes

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  11. NO ME LLEGA EL MENSAJE SMS PARA CONFIGURAR MI 2FA Y NO PUEDO CONFIGURAR MI AFILIADO

    6 votes

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  12. i cant use my phone number on this account even tho i deleted the number from the second account. any ideas why i cant use my phone number. it says that its been used on other account even tho its deleted.

    6 votes

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  13. Recently a 19 year old got susspended on Twitch indefinitley for being under age, this is not ok. Twitch should be absolutley sure about ages and not have an auto bot ban users falsly.
    This idea is all about having an ID registered into the accounts when creating them, using the candidate number, date of birth, ect. Basically a debit card for paying for bits, but with an ID registering the person behind the account and also verifying their age. If the ID is renewed then Twitch should ask the user to update their details with the new ID.

    6 votes

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  14. Recently, existing Twitch accounts in the United Kingdom have had access to what Twitch deems mature content such as horror games blocked. However there is currently no method provided to verify a UK users age. Please provide an age verification method for UK users as soon as possible to minimise disruption to those users and allow them to restore their full access to Twitch streaming services.

    5 votes

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  15. I believe that not everyone from only those countries that are able to add their phone number to their twitch account with no issues of sms verification code, cos I'm unable to add mine and unable to receive the sent sms verification code from twitch.
    the twitch team, please fix this issue so that everyone from every country worldwide (where twitch is available) will be able to add his/her own phone number to his/her own twitch account respectively.

    5 votes

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  16. Please give us a manual option to enable a 2FA app (by entering or copying the secret, without using a QR code). Almost every website with 2FA has this option. Some people might have broken phone cameras, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be able to activate 2FA on Twitch, as 2FA is a core part of account security.

    5 votes

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  17. Are you serious? I've had a twitch account for years and have dmed people no problem. Now you require my phone number? This is thinly veiled predatory practice. You could ask for a myriad of other methods if you were "concerned about bots" (which you aren't). Seriously, F off with the phone number BS

    5 votes

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  18. Hello! I welcome the new Twitch guidelines and support people doing their own content, as long as it's labelled properly.

    Having said that, where I can see Twitch improve upon in terms of safety is something that Sony did a long time ago for PSN accounts: If you're under 18, your Twitch account has to be a mandatory supervised account by another Twitch account that's over 18. That way, anything M-rated and labelled with suggestive/sexual content could be forcefully filtered out for those supervised accounts and when the user turns 18, they get an option to remove said restrictions. It's…

    5 votes

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  19. Allowing users to complete the Affiliate Application by using their Paypal or another method that doesn't include sharing their SSN would be a major step privacy wise.

    If someone's SSN gets stolen, it can ruin them financially for years to come or even for life. This is why we are told never to share that number. Having a work around where we can file the taxes ourselves without having to give out our SSN to Twitch or Amazon would be beneficial to all involved and would help reduce the chances of people getting their SSN stolen.

    5 votes

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  20. Please make a way to recover a phone number, or a way to disconect every account off a phone number because in Brazil the phone numbers that you get can already have been used by another person before you purchase your chip and for now i have a phone number that i canot use because we don't have a option like this (sorry for my bad english)

    5 votes

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