misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agoYouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for adswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square197fedilinkarrow-up1758arrow-down17
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minus-squareMax-P@lemmy.max-p.melinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up190·22 hours agoSoon: when you pause a video, it starts playing a video ad with audio, to make sure no silence time gets wasted from your speakers.
minus-square18-24-61-B-17-17-4@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up65arrow-down2·21 hours agoAnd 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!
minus-squareMax-P@lemmy.max-p.melinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·21 hours agoThat’s fine, the ad co struck a deal with speaker co to not bill for those sound-seconds.
minus-squaremurmelade@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-214 hours agoBut now you have to watch and listen to the whole thing before you can resume the original video which was an ad to begin with.
minus-squareEmpatheticTeddyBear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·20 hours agoThere is also a tax on when the speakers are not in use.
minus-squareRentlar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·20 hours agoImagine if they pulled that on the idle timeout pause screen too…
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.
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!
That’s fine, the ad co struck a deal with speaker co to not bill for those sound-seconds.
But now you have to watch and listen to the whole thing before you can resume the original video which was an ad to begin with.
There is also a tax on when the speakers are not in use.
Imagine if they pulled that on the idle timeout pause screen too…