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YouTube on TVs Now Shows Ads When You Pause
It looks like Google has started experimenting with showing advertisements whenever the video is paused. For the time being, this only affects owners of smart TVs. We haven’t spotted any ads using YouTube on set-top boxes like the Apple TV and gaming consoles like the PlayStation. In 2023, YouTube on TVs brought unskippable 30-second ads. Then in April 2024, the…
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Snapchat to put ads next to chats with friends
Snapchat will soon start “experimenting” with placing sponsored messages next to chat threads from friends, according to CEO Evan Spiegel. These “Sponsored Snaps” from brands will appear as unread messages in Snapchat’s main Chat tab, implying that they’ll sit above messages from a person’s contacts until they’re acted on. This is the first time Snap will show ads in the…
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Lucky Removes Ads and Tracking From Google Search
Google Search has steadily worsened over the past few years. The number of scummy sponsored results, AI-generated garbage, and misleading, low-quality webpages is rising, and it’s becoming harder to find useful things on the internet. The good news is, it doesn’t have to be this way. If you’re pining for the Google of yore, when a search results page returned…
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