Twitch to Allow Streamers to Stop Some Users From Watching Their Streams

Twitch to Allow Streamers , to Stop Some Users From <br />Watching Their Streams.<br />Currently, streamers can ban users from their chats on Twitch but can't stop them from viewing streams.<br />Next month, an update will allow streamers to <br />keep banned users from also viewing their streams. .<br />The long-requested feature will kick <br />banned users "out of chat and live <br />streams in real time," The Verge reports. .<br />Once a user is banned, they will <br />automatically lose access to streams.<br />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.<br />However, The Verge points out that banned users have a workaround for continuing to watch streams.<br />This is because Twitch still lets <br />anyone without an account tune in.<br />So if a user gets banned and <br />still wants access to streams, .<br />all they have to do is log out of their account <br />"or use a browser incognito window," <br />The Verge reports. .<br />It remains to be seen whether future <br />updates will address this issue as well