Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads

altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Copernican@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I doubt they are video ads. On other streaming services they are just static images with transparent backgrounds displayed on one third of the screen. Pause ads aren’t new and I’m guessing YouTube is following other streaming services.

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