YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads - eviltoast
  • ColonelPanic@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Money.

    Also I imagine the ads will be silent but animated, like a regular website ad but full screen, essentially turning whatever you’re watching it on into a giant billboard.

    It’s just another thing to block I guess.

    • TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      I should have opened the article, that’s a lot less intrusive than what I thought. If this is the extent of it, and frankly considering that Google let’s you opt out of personalized tracking when many sites have begun forcing them onto users and forcing me to constantly clear their cookies, that makes me a lot less mad with them.