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YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads (www.theverge.com)
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[–] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

I never understood, and never will understand this.

Even when I was a poor teenager and pirated essentially everything I always knew that this content only exists because someone is paying for it.

How do people go around feeling like the best VoD platform to ever exist, available on every device imaginable, optimized for years by best software engineers the world has, should be free, and without ads is beyond me.