Android Authority's survey shows a clear discrepancy between Google's claims about unskippable ads on YouTube and what users ...

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

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 users are experiencing extremely long, unskippable ads, sometimes up to an hour long. There’s a good chance that ad blockers might be contributing to the issue. Google maintains that it ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A few strange instances of YouTube users witnessing hour-long, unskippable advertisements were recently covered by Android ...

YouTube is facing backlash over an aggressive tactic targeting free-tier users who use ad blockers. Despite offering a free, ...

Some users are seeing hour-long unskippable ads on YouTube. No, seriously… an hour. I wouldn’t blame anyone if they resorted to ad blockers after dealing with that sort of nightmare.

YouTube reveals its numbers for 2024, revealing that the service made a tremendous amount of money by showing ads to its ...