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

TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I wonder what made their leadership continue to escalate into increasingly bullshit decisions. What happens if I need to pause because I need my PC to be quiet so I can address something and still an ad suddenly starts playing? I’ll tell you what happens, I’ll either find some way to disable that from happening, switch to a service that doesn’t do it if I can, or just begin avoiding it all together. Brilliant planing, YouTube. Whoever has been left as its leadership is a dumbass.

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Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Whoever has been left as its leadership is a dumbass.

Not in the slightest. More likely their annual bonus depends on boosting revenue right now. So they’re incentivised to generate short term increases in revenue but not for longer term. Plus, also, if/when Youtube goes tits up they’ll just get a different CEOing job (with “increased revenue by 25% in 2024 on their resume”) rinse and repeat.

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Rider@eviltoast.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Not to mention it’ll push more people towards using Adblockers. And since chrome is cracking down on Adblockers as well, people start using another browser altogether. It seems like Google is self-sabotaging with these kind of decisions.

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- Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Hilarious isn’t it? I stopped using Google search because they fucked it up too bad. I stopped watching YouTube years ago too because they already fucked it up.
  
  I guess they just don’t want users anymore.
  
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ColonelPanic@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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- TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.
  
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