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YouTube on TVs is cramming ads down your throat even when pausing videos (www.androidauthority.com)
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[โ€“] Strider 42 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

It absolutely is.

It's possibly also how they'll get broken up by the DoJ.