YouTube users are now seeing 90-second unskippable ads (Updated: Official statement)
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Users on Reddit are reporting that they're now seeing 90-second unskippable ads on YouTube's TV app, even as policy restricts them to 30 seconds.
  • ji59@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    Ads via HDMI shouldn’t work if the TV doesn’t have internet connection, by my understanding. So I do not see any problems there.

    • felbane@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 month ago

      oh don’t worry, they’ll start participating in mesh networks with your neighbors’ smart devices and getting internet access that way

      • leoj@piefed.zipEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        or using like 4g/5g network for ads for free, sucking up all the data bandwidth from smartphone users so they can make sure we got our daily ad dosage!

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      I seem to recall reafing that smart TVs have a list of default passwords they use to try and connect to the to wifi networks they find…