moe90@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoYouTube on TVs is cramming ads down your throat even when pausing videoswww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square185fedilinkarrow-up1611arrow-down115
arrow-up1596arrow-down1external-linkYouTube on TVs is cramming ads down your throat even when pausing videoswww.androidauthority.commoe90@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square185fedilink
minus-squareStrider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down2·edit-22 months agoTo me this is way too much like extortion. The more they do this the less I want to give them money. Also I need to be logged on everywhere, which I don’t want to (have to), mostly for privacy and data harvesting reasons. It also does not help that when I want to see something and jump around in a video, I get the same ad 30 times. No exaggeration.
minus-squareOnno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radiolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoIt absolutely is. It’s possibly also how they’ll get broken up by the DoJ.
To me this is way too much like extortion. The more they do this the less I want to give them money.
Also I need to be logged on everywhere, which I don’t want to (have to), mostly for privacy and data harvesting reasons.
It also does not help that when I want to see something and jump around in a video, I get the same ad 30 times. No exaggeration.
It absolutely is.
It’s possibly also how they’ll get broken up by the DoJ.