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Russian streamers, in order to avoid copyright strikes and broadcast movies on Twitch as if it were a pirate site, use mirror streaming. Mirror streaming is a technique in which the original video feed is flipped horizontally and then delivered to viewers. This modification serves to bypass automatic systems that detect protected copyrighted content (for example, YouTube Content ID or Twitch DMCA).
It’s unclear why Twitch allows its platform to be used to advertise scam sites offering casino games and CS and Dota skins, and to stream movies as if on a pirate website. It gives the impression that if a streamer broadcasts in Russian, they can violate any of the platform’s rules.
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Another Russian streamer MIRWANA ( https://www.twitch.tv/mirwana ), advertises the LEON gambling and betting site, link to the casino section on the LEON site ( https://leon.ru/quick-bets ). He uses an external LEON ad widget on his stream and a LEON ad banner in his channel description, which leads to a LEON promotional page from which you can proceed to the LEON site itself and register. Yet another example of a Russian-speaking streamer who couldn’t care less about Twitch’s rules. Violations were recorded on the stream of July 20, 2025.
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Russian streamers promoting all these betting and gambling websites will continue trying to deceive Twitch by using, for example, targeted redirects. When a user clicks on their promotional links, they are taken to a promotional version of the website where the gambling section is either absent or disguised under another name. However, the main versions of these websites, which users access not via promotional links or streamers’ promotional pages, contain fully featured gambling sections. Here are examples of the most popular websites promoted by Russian streamers, whose main versions include gambling sections:BetBoom (link to the gambling section https://betboom.ru/express ), Winline (link to the gambling section https://winline.ru/games ), Fonbet (link to the gambling section https://fon.bet/quick-games ), PARI (link to the gambling section https://pari.ru/quick-games ), Olimpbet (link to the gambling section https://www.olimp.bet/lobby ).
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Betting and gambling websites, which are promoted by Russian streamers, use various methods to hide from Twitch employees the true content of their service. For example, they may use a targeted redirect: when following an advertising link, the user lands on a version of the website where, allegedly, the gambling section is absent, which allows hiding from Twitch employees the fact that gambling is actually present on the site. Such a technique is already used, for example, by the company Winline (I wrote about this in my previous comment; here is the link to the gambling section https://winline.ru/games ).
Even without considering gambling, betting itself also leads to gambling addiction—especially when such aggressive advertising as that by Russian streamers, on every stream, offers users a supposedly free bet that ultimately must still be wagered with real money.
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Twitch should not ignore the advertisement for Winline, as it is literally a betting casino — for example, here is a direct link to the gambling section, designed almost like a real casino on the site https://winline.ru/games .
For instance, streamer bratishkinoff ( https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff/about ) continues to advertise the Winline website. He uses an external promotional widget on his stream featuring the Winline logo (with "Win" written on it), as well as an external promotional banner in his channel description with the same logo, which is disguised as part of the channel’s design. This banner leads to the Winline advertising page, which is specifically designed in a neutral style to mislead Twitch employees, in the hope that they will not realize that Winline is a betting and gambling website. However, from this advertising page one can directly navigate to the Winline website by clicking on the Winline name, on the animated part of the page, or on the inscription rendered in white on an orange background.
Winline and Russian streamers continue to try to deceive Twitch. Apparently, they are deliberately concealing the presence of a full-fledged casino section. In order for this section, mentioned below, to appear on the Winline website, a user must first navigate to the gambling page, and then icons will appear on the homepage, among which one leads to the casino section. Possibly, this is done deliberately so that users coming from outside of Russia do not immediately see that the site has a casino section—this approach may be used to deceive Twitch employees.
At the time of writing, to enter the gambling section when navigating from the streamer's advertising page to the homepage of the Winline website, one had to click on an icon with an image of two dice among a row of small square icons, on which was written in Russian "Игры 24/7" (which, when translated into English, appears as "24/7 Games"); however, when using a browser’s automatic translation, the text on these icons remains in Russian. Previously, this website had a separate section with that name and with exactly the same gambling games, but now it is disguised. Russian-speaking viewers, for whom this advertisement is intended, will have no trouble understanding where to go to access the casino section of the site.
In my opinion, all of this is done deliberately to continue advertising this betting casino website and to further deceive Twitch.
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Another example of how Russian streamers are trying to fool Twitch and circumvent the platform’s rules in order to advertise betting and gambling websites. Streamer Dmitry_Lixxx (https://www.twitch.tv/dmitry_lixxx/about) advertises the betting and gambling website Winline, an external promotional widget on the broadcast featuring the Winline logo, on which the inscription “Win” is displayed, and the inscription on the widget periodically changes to something else. An external promotional banner in the channel description, which also features the Winline logo with the inscription “Win”, leads to the Winline advertising page; this advertising page is specially designed in a neutral style to mislead Twitch employees, in the hope that they do not realize that Winline is a betting and gambling website. However, if on this advertising page one clicks on the name Winline or on an animated part of the page, or on the inscription on an orange background, it will redirect you directly to the Winline website.
During the stream, a moderator pinned a promotional message in chat with an advertising link for Winline that leads to the Winline advertising page ("Pinned by
Moderator
MaxiDear
https://3000.win/c/Dmitry_Lixxx - лутай 3000 для всех новых пользователей на WinlineModerator2-Year SubscriberVerifiedMaxiDear sent at 04:32 PM"); in my opinion, this is done deliberately so that this advertising link does not appear on the stream recording. In the stream title there was also a supposed chat command “!winline”, which is yet another way to circumvent the platform’s rules by disguising the name of the betting and gambling website as a chat command in the stream title.
The stream in which these violations were recorded was held on 23.05.2025, when the stream time was 2:06:21.
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Russian streamers continue trying to deceive Twitch and bypass the platform's rules in order to advertise betting and gambling websites. Further examples of how they do this. Streamer buster (https://www.twitch.tv/buster/about) advertises the betting and gambling website Winline. He uses 2 external advertising widgets for Winline on his stream, a Winline advertising banner in the channel description that leads to the advertising page for Winline, which has been specially designed in a neutral style to mislead, but if you click on the inscription on an orange background on that page, it will take you directly to the Winline website. In chat, a moderator pinned an advertising message that looked as follows: "Pinned by foorrsberghttps://media.winairline.ru/ - Смотри PGL Астана вместе с Winline foorrsberg sent at 10:41 AM" This message also contained an advertising link for Winline. In my opinion, this is done deliberately so that the stream recording does not include this message with the link. Additionally, in the stream title, the name of the betting and gambling website Winline was also present. This was all recorded on the stream that was held on 17.05.2025, when the stream time was 7:04:26.
Streamer leva2k (https://www.twitch.tv/leva2k/about) advertises the betting and gambling website PARI. He uses an external advertising widget for PARI on his stream, and a PARI advertising banner in the channel description that leads to an advertising post on Telegram, in which direct advertising links for PARI are masked as hyperlinks—that is, they are words in the post that are underlined and written in blue; when you click on them, you are taken to the PARI website. In this advertising post, there were 3 such hyperlinks, 2 of which led to the registration page on the PARI website, with the registration page being designed in a neutral style so that a person who does not know that PARI is a betting and gambling website might not realize it; presumably, they expect that in this way they can deceive Twitch staff; the third hyperlink in this post leads directly to the PARI website. All these hyperlinks are made specifically to disguise the advertisement for the betting and gambling website. These violations were recorded on the stream that was held on 17.05.2025, when the stream time was 3:20:05.
Streamer Recrent (https://www.twitch.tv/recrent/about) advertises the betting and gambling website PARI. He uses an external advertising widget with the PARI logo on the stream, and a banner with the PARI logo in the channel description that leads to an advertising post on Telegram, in which 3 hyperlinks are used to mislead; these 3 hyperlinks lead to the registration page on the PARI website, with the registration page designed in a neutral style, so that if one does not know that PARI is a betting and gambling website, one might not realize that this is advertising gambling. By the way, in his channel description, there are 7(!) external advertising banners—simply an advertising mess in the channel description. These violations were recorded on the stream that was held on 17.05.2025, when the stream time was 3:58:51.
Streamer korya_mc (https://www.twitch.tv/korya_mc/about) advertises the betting and gambling website Winline. This streamer uses an external advertising widget with the Winline logo during his broadcast, and a banner in the channel description, disguised as part of the channel design to deceive Twitch, that leads to the advertising page for Winline, which has been specially designed in a neutral style to mislead, but if on that advertising page you click on the name Winline, or on an animated part of the site, or on the inscription on an orange background, it will take you directly to the Winline website. In the stream title, there is also a so-called chat command named !winline, and in chat a moderator pinned an advertising message that looked as follows "Pinned by kara_molodoiБонус 3000 за регистрацию - 3000.win/c/korya_mc делаем разницу | Реклама · 18+ · Играйте ответственно Fossabot sent at 01:55 PM"; the message contained an advertising link for Winline. These violations were recorded on the stream that was held on 17.05.2025, when the broadcast time was 4:17:04.An error occurred while saving the comment isrlviva2
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Another Russian streamer who advertises the betting and gambling website Winline and tries to mask his advertisement in order to bypass Twitch's rules — bratishkinoff ( https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff/about ) — uses an external advertising widget on his stream featuring the Winline website logo (which has the inscription "Win"). In his channel description, there is an advertising banner for the Winline website, which also displays the Winline website logo with the inscription "Win", and this banner leads via an advertising link directly to the Winline website. This is yet another example of how Russian streamers try to mask their advertisements for betting and gambling websites in order to bypass Twitch. I captured these violations on his stream, which took place on 12.05.2025, when the broadcast time was exactly 2:32:02.
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Streamer Dunduk ( https://www.twitch.tv/dunduk/about ) also attempts to bypass Twitch rules by advertising the betting and gambling website Winline. On his streams, an external Winline advertising widget is used, and in his channel description there are two advertising banners. One of these advertising banners promotes the Winline website itself and contains the Winline logo with the inscription "Win". Moreover, in the chat there is a pinned advertising message from a moderator which looks as follows:
"Pinned by ModeratorB1ack_JOEZZDDDD – https://winline.tv/4d2TcM8 – фрибет 3000 рублей всем новым игрокам! Регистрируйся по моему промокоду DUNDUK . Winline делает разницу. ModeratorSuperUltraCombo 2023B1ack_JOEZZDDDD sent at 11:07 PM"
This stream took place on 11.05.2025, and I captured the pinned message precisely at the moment of the broadcast, when the time was 2:18:00. Such a situation is yet another example of bypassing platform rules.
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Another example of how Russian streamers attempt to deceive Twitch: streamer anarabdullaev ( https://www.twitch.tv/anarabdullaev/about ) is promoting the betting and gambling website FONBET. He uses an external widget on his stream for advertising purposes, which displays his promo code "SHTAMP" for FONBET along with the message "click the banner, go to TG." Furthermore, his channel description includes a promotional banner that also displays his promo code "SHTAMP" and the same message "click the banner, go to TG." This banner leads to Telegram, where he openly promotes FONBET and encourages the use of his promo code "SHTAMP."
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Another example of how Russian streamers attempt to deceive Twitch: streamer deepins02 ( https://www.twitch.tv/deepins02/about ) is promoting the betting and gambling website Winline. In his channel description, there is a promotional banner for Winline, on which the Winline logo is displayed with the inscription "Win". Moreover, his stream title includes the chat command !winline, which is also a direct reference to the website for advertising purposes.
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Another Russian streamer who is trying to deceive Twitch and mask the advertisement of betting and gambling websites as part of his overall channel design—sasavot (https://www.twitch.tv/sasavot/about) is advertising the betting and gambling website winline. On his stream, an external advertisement widget for winline appears, and in his channel description there is an advertisement banner with his promo code for this website (his promo code on this site is the same as his username, i.e., "sasavot"; this can be verified by clicking the banner and going to his Telegram channel, where he openly advertises winline).
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Streamer k4t4n4 (https://www.twitch.tv/k4t4n4) is advertising a casino website and playing on that casino live on his stream, while deliberately setting his stream category to Casino Simulator 2024 to mislead Twitch. In his broadcast, he both plays on and promotes a casino website that has nothing to do with the category he has chosen for his stream.
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In general, why does Twitch allow them to run such aggressive advertising on their streams? All this advertising that plays throughout the entire stream, the tons of ads in the channel description, and ad bots spamming links in the chat—Twitch doesn't earn anything from it; as has already been mentioned, they are simply overloading your servers for free to turn your platform into an advertising dump. Another example of how Russian streamers will try to cheat Twitch and bypass its rules is streamer T2x2 (https://www.twitch.tv/t2x2/about) — now, during his stream, there is simply an external widget/banner with his promo code for the betting and gambling website FONBET (which says "T2X2, click the banner, go to tg"), and he also uses merchandise from this website, for example, a pillow with the name FONBET, in his webcam to bypass the platform's rules. In the channel description, he has an advertisement banner (which contains the promo code T2X2 for the betting and gambling website FONBET) leading to a Telegram channel where the FONBET website is openly advertised, and his promo code T2X2 is offered for registration and for receiving bonuses on that site.
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Why does Twitch ignore direct reports on Russian streamers’ broadcasts for advertising these betting and gambling websites and for streaming movies like on a pirate site? Of course, they will advertise all this scam and stream movies like on a pirate site if Twitch ignores the reports on their streams—they will continue trying to deceive Twitch and circumvent the platform's rules in order to advertise all this scam and stream movies like on a pirate site if direct reports on their streams with these violations continue to be ignored.
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Russian streamers try to mask the promotion of betting and gambling websites as part of their overall channel design. For example, Nix (https://www.twitch.tv/nix) – an advertisement for the betting and gambling website BetBoom, a third-party ad banner/widget on the stream promoting the BetBoom website, a BetBoom ad banner in the channel description—in the channel description, as with many other Russian streamers, there's an advertising mess filled with third-party ad banners. By the way, why does Twitch so often ignore reports on Russian streamers' broadcasts for advertising all this scam and streaming pirated content?
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Twitch should ban the promotion of Telegram channels and links to Telegram, firstly because Telegram lacks content moderation, and Russian military propaganda about the war in Ukraine is spread there, and secondly, because Russian streamers use Telegram to advertise casinos and any other scams. They constantly promote their Telegram channels during streams, spam links in the chat, and insert them into channel descriptions and stream titles—they can advertise literally anything in their Telegram channels, promoting them through Twitch.
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I think it's a problem that Twitch very often ignores reports about Russian streamers who advertise scams, betting casino websites, and broadcast pirated content
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Another problem is that Twitch very often simply ignores complaints against Russian streamers for advertising betting casino websites, streaming films like on a pirate site to a large audience, and all other similar violations on their part.
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Advertising Telegram channels is a clear loophole in Twitch's rules, as many Russian streamers use their stream descriptions and banners to place links leading to Telegram, where dubious content such as scam projects, casinos, the distribution of pirated content, and other illegal initiatives is promoted. This circumvention of advertising restrictions allows them to avoid strict platform moderation. As long as this loophole in Twitch's rules remains practically unpunished, it only contributes to the further spread of fraudulent schemes on the platform.
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Hi, I know that this is a very late response, but we’re hoping to find time to address this issue later this year. There are a few steps we’ll have to take to solve this problem in a way that will work for all streamers, but we understand the severity of the issue.
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Russian-speaking streamers continue to advertise anything — scams, betting and gambling sites (casinos), casino sites with Dota 2 and Counter-Strike skins, platforms for selling Steam accounts. They still deceive Twitch by disguising this advertising as channel branding and using all other methods of deception and misleading Twitch staff that have already been described here in the comments and in the post itself.