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YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads (www.theverge.com)
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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

that's right: into their UI; with free software, you could use a different UI with no ads

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Serious question: how can YouTube pay the bills with zero ads? I'm not talking about making a profit, just breaking even.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

which is basically what we do using ublock origin - and then they inject ads directly into the video stream, and a custom UI wouldn't help.