misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoYouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for adswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square214fedilinkarrow-up1313arrow-down15
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minus-squareschnurrito@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agothat’s right: into their UI; with free software, you could use a different UI with no ads
minus-squarepathief@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoSerious question: how can YouTube pay the bills with zero ads? I’m not talking about making a profit, just breaking even.
minus-squareraspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·2 months agowhich is basically what we do using ublock origin - and then they inject ads directly into the video stream, and a custom UI wouldn’t help.
that’s right: into their UI; with free software, you could use a different UI with no ads
Serious question: how can YouTube pay the bills with zero ads? I’m not talking about making a profit, just breaking even.
which is basically what we do using ublock origin - and then they inject ads directly into the video stream, and a custom UI wouldn’t help.