YouTube is starting to show ads on TVs whenever you pause a video, as first announced earlier this year by Google.

  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip
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    12 days ago

    I'm not too familiar with different TV OS, but even just DNS blocking would still work for that. DNS blacklists are not enough to block ads on native clients, as they are being served from the same domain.

    If they start embedding ads into the stream, then it will have to move to SponsorBlock style community blocking, but technically still viable.