Wow, this is awful. Some people reported that these ads are also very petty and not necessarily related to the game, like apparently Elden Ring shows an ad for a licensed mousepad when you hover over the game now...

Edit: Playstation Product Manager says this is actually a new bug. I really doubt it but they do seem to be "fixing it".

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[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

On other news, welcome to my blog adshittification. The blog that uncovers the sinister truth about the ads being shown in your throat! This week's highlights:

Youtube still hasn't stopped ruining my week by filling up those precious few seconds between opening a video and going fullscreenwith intrusive ads that cover a quarter of your screen, and still even then you can't stop the wall of ads that show up after the video finishes:
I opened up steam to play some factorio to calm my nerves, but I got greeted by an illegal ad telling me to kill myself:
So instead I opened library home to play something alse, only to be assaulted by more ads at the top!
I decided to give up trying to play. Normally I would open reddit next but I haven't been using it since they put promotions in the post screen:
Thankfully lemmy is immune to such corporate bs

No lemmy-chan not you too!