Some affected users took to the r/youtube subreddit to complain about the new feature. One Redditor claimed they received 90 ...

YouTube and YouTube Music add-free and in the background Price ... but I'm not sure that brutally long unskippable ads and suggesting users swipe their credit cards is the way to go.

Of course, other forms of unskippable ads on YouTube aren’t going anywhere. On the contrary, Google is simply getting more creative and experimental about how it chooses to implement them.

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 ...