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The Verge reports that YouTube is rolling out advertisements that show up when you pause videos, continuing experiments that the company started a year ago. A YouTube representative confirmed that the practice will now become commonplace “as we’ve seen both strong advertiser and strong viewer response.”

The representative said that advertising on paused videos is designed to create a “less interruptive” experience. But as The Verge notes, that doesn’t necessarily mean we’re going to see a drop in the increasing load of obnoxious and often unskippable advertising on YouTube. And since I’m seeing more and more creators pack their videos with sponsorships, I somehow doubt that the people making YouTube’s content are going to get a bigger slice of the advertising pie.

“We estimate we can sell up to 80 percent of an individual’s visual field before inducing seizures,” said the fictional CEO (of a company that bears more than a passing resemblance to Google) in Ready Player One.

Apropos of nothing, it’s possible to block every single ad on YouTube — even the sponsorships that are baked into the videos themselves — on both desktop and mobile.

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[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 47 points 14 hours ago

There was a Black Mirror episode where if you close your eyes, the ad stops playing and continues only when you open your eyes again.

This is next.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 points 11 hours ago

You're not doing that scene justice. It blares a loud siren and bright lights until you open your eyes again.

[-] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 4 points 11 hours ago

blares a loud siren

IIRC, it was a high-pitched sound, like a screeching cicada.

[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 2 points 10 hours ago

That's true.

I glossed over the worst parts.

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