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

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 205 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Soon: when you pause a video, it starts playing a video ad with audio, to make sure no silence time gets wasted from your speakers.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And your speakers are on subscription plans that charge you for every second that they play noise. Better upgrade to the next tier if you want to listen to anything else!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's fine, the ad co struck a deal with speaker co to not bill for those sound-seconds.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

There is also a tax on when the speakers are not in use.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Imagine if they pulled that on the idle timeout pause screen too...