YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads

“We’ve since widely rolled out Pause ads to all advertisers.”

“We’ve since widely rolled out Pause ads to all advertisers.”

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Good thing I rip most of the videos I watch first then watch them offline.
Do YouTube creators get a cut from the paused video ads? If so can I say pause the video on each frame to get thousands of ads served to me?
🎵Enshittification 🎶
Then I'll never pause and waste more bandwidth. Cool beans