YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
www.theverge.com YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
“We’ve since widely rolled out Pause ads to all advertisers.”
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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.
205 0 ReplyAnd 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!
72 2 ReplyThat's fine, the ad co struck a deal with speaker co to not bill for those sound-seconds.
25 0 ReplyThere is also a tax on when the speakers are not in use.
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Imagine if they pulled that on the idle timeout pause screen too...
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