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Big Streamers Bet on Increasingly Aggressive ‘Pause Ads’ to Stop Viewers in Their Tracks (variety.com)
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Big streamers are placing more focus on aggressive "pause ads" that pop on screen after a viewer calls for a halt in the action.

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[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah fuck channel 4 (UK) for doing this. I can no longer scan to where I want to be in a program because if it's not playing then they show a static ad, and if you go over and add break it will play 3 mins of ads, even if you just say through 3 mins by scanning over the last ad break.

Completely unusable cancer UX

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

ITV is pretty bad as well. The only redeeming feature is that they have absolutely no content that any normal human would ever want to watch anyway, so nobody has to interact with it.