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YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

like on porn sites

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

If only YouTube ads were as unobtrusive as PornHub's.. one five-second-skippable ad before each video is all I've ever seen

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

and some piracy sites too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Except the ads on porn sites are easier to block than YouTube's intrusive garbage. A simple DNS filter should be enough for most porn ads, whereas YouTube requires more complex blocking techniques.