YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads

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YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
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What if you paused so you could see something? You're not allowed to read that text in the background because ads

Great point. I already find this to be a problem with the recommendations that pop up when paused, and the end-video elements they throw over everything despite having that turned off everywhere I can find it. It's all so dumb. Just so damn dumb.

They’ll likely do what other platforms have done and let you X out the ad til you unpause