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

In response, Google has intensified its crackdown on such freeloaders, particularly in 2025, by introducing extreme deterrents like unskippable ads lasting several hours.

Listen to Story Jio bundles YouTube Premium free for 2 years with select broadband plans Enjoy ... However, the platform’s frequent ads, many of which are unskippable and can last between 15 and 20 ...

Some users report that YouTube is showing unskippable ads that are hours ... Another user posted a picture with a whopping 2-hour 52-minute ad. To put that in perspective, The Lord Of The Ring ...

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

Out of the $36.2 billion, YouTube reported that it earned $10.473 billion ... In the last few days, some YouTube users have complained that they are seeing unskippable hour-long ads, forcing many to ...

This time, it’s over unrealistically long ads that are also unskippable. Some users have ... with one user showing a photo of a YouTube ad being 57:57 in length, and another displaying a 2:52:16-long ...

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 ...