But for people using YouTube to follow textile patterns, photoshop tutorials, repairs, etc. needing to pause frequently while still seeing the full screen is a big deal 😬
I use Ublock Origin and Firefox/DDG’s “view here”, so I think I’m safe…
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azenyr@lemmy.world 6 months ago
To be fair, if they are like the example (static silent ads) they would be the least intrusive ads that YouTube ever had. To the point that I don’t even mind them. All of YouTube ads should be like this, not annoying, silent, and easily ignored.
nepenthes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Syrc@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The screenshot does have a “dismiss” button, so I suppose if you click there you’ll still be able to see the fullscreen video.
But yeah, those are definitely cumulative with existing ads, greedy fucks.
mac@infosec.pub 6 months ago
If they switched over to this method instead of the current I would argue an adblocker wouldn’t even improve the experience, the problem is that it interrupts my actual content in the middle of the video.