“Did that pause screen ad make you want to quit using YouTube?”
“Yes, but what alternative is there?”
“Success!”
Comment on YouTube will shove ads in your face even when you pause videos
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months agoWhat they mean to say is, “Surprisingly, this didn’t annoy people nearly as much as we had assumed. Score!”
“Did that pause screen ad make you want to quit using YouTube?”
“Yes, but what alternative is there?”
“Success!”
Invidious
Peertube
Yt-dlp script + jellyfin
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 months ago
More like “we forced an ad while the video was paused and only 30% of viewers immediately closed the window”