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YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago

Is anyone even remotely surprised by this?

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (5 children)

They've started serving ads when you skip backwards. Drives me fucking nuts.

I was willing to use the mobile app with ads because the interface is slightly less buggy.

Ad blocking on mobile web it is for me now 👍

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Stallman was right.

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[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hate it when I go to full screen and one of my (100s of) tabs has a youtube short that thinks "Oh, time to start playing again!"

Now I'll have paused tabs start making noise and I won't be able to find it until the ad is over.

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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 14 points 2 months ago

Hmmm, so what you are saying is that I am just one ad blocker failing away from being productive in life?

[–] RadicallyBland@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

lol, ads

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[–] Dju@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And next... after opening the app you will have to watch ad before you can do anything

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Come on, this is Google we're talking about. The ads come before opening the app.

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[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

What ads? 😏

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Having a hard enough time just trying to fucking skip back 20 seconds without accidentally tapping on the creators' page.

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[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

YouTube is unwatchable. No way I can make it through those ads.

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[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago (5 children)

God, they better not be unskippable

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[–] ViscloReader@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

🤮

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