Google is getting sick and tired of YouTube watchers who use ad blockers, and — no surprise — the company is stepping it up ...

As such, it may only affect people who are using YouTube with an ad blocker. It's likely that whatever the ad blocker is doing to skip the ad isn't firing properly and instead lea ...

YouTube ads are now unskippable and can last for several hours, just to deter users with adblockers. Google is cracking down ...

which is possibly why some viewers are experiencing extremely long unskippable ads. It pointed us towards YouTube’s ad format rules, which clearly state that in-stream unskippable ads on mobile ...

Google has been taking its crusade against adblockers to a whole new level lately, and users are speculating that unskippable multi-hour ads are its latest weapon. Over the past week, Redditors ...

Google has denied reports that it’s serving unskippable ads that last for minutes or even hours to some YouTube users who ...

Ads that are 60, or even 120 minutes long on YouTube: and the best part is that they can't be skipped. I guess we've reached the lower circles of hell now.

Google has responded after a YouTube viewer went viral on Reddit showing a 60-minute unskippable ad on a video.

Since around January 2025, there have been a series of reports of YouTube displaying unskippable ads that last for several hours. Since these ads are being displayed to users of 'ad blockers' that ...

Google started a big fight against ad blocker use on YouTube ... unskippable ads. It’s probably a mistake from Google that we’re witnessing here. Ads like that should always be skippable. Why ...

even more ad revenue from users. On Reddit, one user on the r/youtube subreddit showed a screenshot of a 58-minute unskippable ad ... That’s why the use of ad blockers violate YouTube’s ...