In fact, one might say the best thing NHL players can be in that situation: Tricky. A new ad from the League, the latest in "The Next Golden Era is Now" series, has some of the world's best hockey ...

“It’s not a mistake,” John Voss, a product designer and the co-founder of Queer Design Club, said in an interview. “Having ...

Valve has created a dedicated page describing that in-game ads or ad-based revenue models are not allowed in Steam games. ...

A Steamworks documentation change explicitly states that games can't force players to watch ads, nor especially reward players for doing so.

Valve is taking action against a growing issue in the gaming world: forced advertisements. This practice, often seen in ...

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 ...

While Google cracked down on freeloaders last year, YouTube is stepping up its efforts in 2025, making viewers with adblockers sit through hours of unskippable ads. Even though ads are annoying ...

In response, Google has intensified its crackdown on such freeloaders, particularly in 2025, by introducing extreme deterrents like unskippable ads lasting several hours. In 2024, YouTube had ...

YouTube ads are now unskippable and can last for several hours, just to deter users with adblockers. Google is cracking down on freeloaders by showing excessively long ads to promote premium ...

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

even more ad revenue from users. On Reddit, one user on the r/youtube subreddit showed a screenshot of a 58-minute unskippable ad, which then prompted commenters to share their own experiences of ...

Users with ad blockers are reporting seeing hourslong unskippable ads. Users with ad blockers are reporting seeing hourslong unskippable ads. Dominic Preston is a news editor with over a ...