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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] 107 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What if you paused so you could see something? You're not allowed to read that text in the background because ads

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Great point. I already find this to be a problem with the recommendations that pop up when paused, and the end-video elements they throw over everything despite having that turned off everywhere I can find it. It's all so dumb. Just so damn dumb.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

They’ll likely do what other platforms have done and let you X out the ad til you unpause