Imagine… “I just love sitting through annoying unskippable ads so much! And I simply can’t wait to see more ads still when I pause!”
Comment on YouTube will shove ads in your face even when you pause videos
billiam0202@lemmy.world 1 week ago
A YouTube representative confirmed that the practice will now become commonplace “as we’ve seen both strong advertiser and strong viewer response.”
Anyone else get the idea that these two “responses” were vastly different?
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What they mean to say is, “Surprisingly, this didn’t annoy people nearly as much as we had assumed. Score!”
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 week ago
More like “we forced an ad while the video was paused and only 30% of viewers immediately closed the window”
billiam0202@lemmy.world 1 week ago
“Did that pause screen ad make you want to quit using YouTube?”
“Yes, but what alternative is there?”
“Success!”
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Invidious
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