Ad-ocalypse Now: YouTube's Quest for Cash Over Content with New 'Pause Ads' (+5 Ad Workarounds)
YouTube now shows ads even when the video is paused. Here’s how this change came about and how to bypass YouTube ads.
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Oksana Zele
Writing about music, marketing, artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms since 2016.
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