Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
Copernican@lemmy.world 20 hours agoLook at the article linked to it. It has a render of a pause ad being a banner that shrinks the video player somewhat, but the paused video is viewable.
Clasm@ttrpg.network 20 hours ago
That’s a lot of faith that the ads would be SFW, let alone not distracting.
Copernican@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
YouTube wants you to keep watching the videos. The more time you spend on the site the more ads you see. They care about finding the balance of acceptable ad load to maximize ad space, which requires a consistent user base.
Clasm@ttrpg.network 19 hours ago
It doesn’t need to be an animated visual to be distracting or NSFW…