PSA: Close PoELab if you are lagging, it is being used to "viewbot" streamers

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If you like me have been experiencing FPS lag this league after using PoELab for the layouts, the issue may be from this:



If you look VERY closely in the bottom right you may barely make out the "featured streamer" I didn't noticed this and I have used PoELab for leagues now but if you scroll down there is a tiny window that starts unpaused and unmuted that plays a twitch stream.



right now it's dropaduski but I don't know if there are multiples even, and earlier when I was labbing it was ghazzy. They are using this to manipulate their views which you can check with this website:

http://www.tidyxgamer.com/realviewers.asp

but here's a screenshot if you don't want to:

- dropaduski

- ghazzy

every one who has PoELab open is giving them a viewer without even hearing or seeing their stream and it is using your bandwidth and cpu power, in my case I had all my lab pages open so I had FOUR streams open of theirs all playing. I don't know if this breaks twitch ToS but it made me lag really bad and might be making you lag too.

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Svegurok wrote:

That is not viewbotting and in my opinion is completely ok.
But it should be more visible so people will know instantly upon entering the site.

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Xystre wrote:

wait so if poelab is viewbotting like this..

then this official website is doing the same? there's "live streamers" section..

if so would explain alot..

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LeetbakaDX wrote:

Why not just use the overlay-app...?