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I have recently been wondering how it is possible that they can make features like that, and provide closed captions, but that they continue to insert ads halfway a speaker’s sentence.

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As someone who runs a startup in the video market (and most of our users use our software for marketing purposes), I think it's pretty likely they might actually use the transcript... to insert ads halfway the speaker's sentence on purpose.

The best calls to action inside a video take advantage of the Zeigarnik effect : once they're invested in the content, people really want to find out the

Any company that takes financial advantage of that should just fu

When I caught a movie after not watching them on German TV for a few years, I noticed a terrible new thing: ads in the middle of scenes. In one very memorable one, 2 guys are waiting for a girl at the airport. One of them says "There she is!" Cut to: not the girl going through the arrivals door, but a beer ad!

I turned the TV off and walked away...

One of the metrics I'm sure they want to avoid is a user clicking away. If they inserted ads only when a speaker has finished a thought, it would probably result in more click aways than ads where a user wants to hear how a sentence/thought ends.

Maybe it's meant to be annoying so you get Premium

It's literally more expensive than literally every other streaming service. Get a pihole/adblocker, it's less expensive.

Well if that doesn't demonstrate their priorities I don't know what would.

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