• nicerdicer@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Ads in, before, and after videos suck.

    But wouldn’t be an ad, which is displayed during a paused video one of the least annoying? Because, when I pause a video, I’m usually doing something else (bathroom break for instance, or, when staying at the computer, doing something in another browser tab or in a different program) and I’m absent from the video. Also, I can mute sound easily (one push of a key on the keyboard - which is a workflow that has to be executed then in addition to simply pausing the video and therefore would be annoying).

    Or did I miss anything else crucial? Do you pause videos and stare at the paused video without doing anything else?

    Anyway, this probably won’t be a problem if you use an ad blocker. Or if you download the video.