Get out of here with you facts. We want to make shit up and then get enraged at the shit we just made up!
Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads''
Joelk111@lemmy.world 6 months agoAccording to the example, it just shoves your video to the side and shows a static ad, not a video. If it played a video with audio that would be fucked. If it’s just silent stuff, honestly not even that intrusive or crazy imo. Smart TV boxes have been doing similar shit for a while, right?
Also, at least with YouTube you can pay to avoid it, if you’d like.
Tja@programming.dev 6 months ago
atrielienz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I don’t know my smart TV hasn’t been hooked up to the Internet and my streaming stick doesn’t show me those kinds of ads. I do pay to avoid it. I have Google premium. In fact I was grandfathered into the $7.99 rate from having Google play music back in the day and my rates only just increased. The point I was trying to make is that this isn’t going to just stay as the static ad. It will absolutely change with time because Google’s losing money on the ad revenue business (it’s just not as lucrative as they need it to be to keep investors happy). The static ads probably will go to full blown video ads at some point (and extensions will counter that by muting tabs and auto stopping playing popup videos until the end user clicks the play button etc because people will try to get around this). This is just the newest progression in a long line of progressions of terrible ad implementation. I
don’t want billboards in my living room though. It’s reasonable to not want billboards in your living room.
BangCrash@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Lol. You’re getting downvoted for actually reading the original post
atrielienz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Not as far as I can see.
BangCrash@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Was at -5 when I commented
atrielienz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That explains that then. I made my comment before bed and didn’t see the replies til the next morning.