Black loading screen for about a minute on streams

[brendan-timmons]

I seem to be getting a black loading screen for around a minute on streams when the ads would normally load.

Chrome version: 78.0.3904.97

Let me know if I can provide anything else to help.

[Straighten-Your-Back]

Getting the same thing on both Firefox and Waterfox, and I'm going to be honest, I don't care. I'd rather see a black screen for a minute rather than an ad.

[Eldakhan]

Same issue, I'm on Firefox :)

[ToxiClay]

Getting this issue as well. When it happens, I note the following error in the Extensions page:

Synchronous XMLHttpRequest on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to the end user's experience. For more help, check https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/.

}

function getWasmBinaryVersion (twitchBlobUrl) {
    var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
    req.open('GET', twitchBlobUrl, false); //This line is highlighted in Chrome's error display menu
    req.send();
    return req.responseText.match(/wasmworker\.min\-(.*)\.js/)[1];
}

~~Is this potentially related? It only appears to affect one stream, and not all the time.~~

Nope, it happens across multiple streams.