Watching YouTube on a Smart TV with Android TV can be a very frustrating experience if you don’t pay for YouTube Premium: it shows you ads when you start playing a video, while you’re watching it, and even at the end. Google also thought it was a good idea show ads when we pause the video.
As some users have been able to verify, who have reported it on Reddit, YouTube is trying to show ads while we pause a videotaking advantage of YouTube’s redesign in March that resized video so it wouldn’t be covered in comments or, in this case, ads.
Even more ads on YouTube
It’s impossible to avoid YouTube ads on your Android TV, as they can appear at any time, sometimes one after the other and often without you being able to ignore them. Google’s latest invention is perhaps less intrusive than the existing ones, although just as frustrating, ads when pausing a video.
Google tries to resize the video to make room a column to display ads. These ads appear to be static banners for now, although it wouldn’t be unreasonable to think that if the experiment goes well, they’ll move to other formats.
Photo from Reddit
So, You can’t escape YouTube ads not even pausing the video, which, as expected, is not too appreciated by those who receive these types of ads.
For now, it seems a limited test with a Dunkin Donuts ad. The move is reminiscent of the ads that appeared on some Google TV users’ home screens earlier this year and seems to clearly indicate Google’s intentions to monetize its Smart TV services.
The only way to get rid of this scourge is as follows: pay for youtube premiumIn Europe, the individual plan costs 11.99 dollars per month, while the student plan costs 6.99 dollars per month.
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Via | Android Authority
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