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YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 205 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Soon: when you pause a video, it starts playing a video ad with audio, to make sure no silence time gets wasted from your speakers.

[–] 18_24_61_b_17_17_4@lemmy.world 70 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And your speakers are on subscription plans that charge you for every second that they play noise. Better upgrade to the next tier if you want to listen to anything else!

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's fine, the ad co struck a deal with speaker co to not bill for those sound-seconds.

[–] EmpatheticTeddyBear@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

There is also a tax on when the speakers are not in use.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

Imagine if they pulled that on the idle timeout pause screen too...