YouTube on TVs is cramming ads down your throat even when pausing videos

YouTube has been testing a Pause ads format for over a year now, and it's starting to show up for some users.

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I wouldn't mind them if they didn't BREAK MY REMOTE'S PLAY BUTTON.
- I was casting a video to my shield from my phone and ended up needing to pause for a phone call during an ad roll. Pausing worked fine but the play button on my phone was completely unresponsive after. Thankfully the shield remote still worked, but clearly play/pause during ads is handled differently than during normal videos and something is broken.

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