Valve makes clear companies can still advertise in games. Those awkward billboards and real-world brand cosmetics are still ...

Google maintains that it restricts unskippable ads to a maximum of ... If you look at the image closely, you’ll notice a ‘skipping ads’ button on the bottom left, which gives us clues ...

YouTube users have recently raised concerns about encountering unusually long ads—and when we say long ads, we’re talking about some lasting three hours or ...

YouTube users have recently raised concerns about encountering unusually long ads—and when we say long ads, we’re talking about some lasting three hours or ...

YouTube users have reported encountering excessively long, un-skippable ads, with some lasting between 57 minutes to 3 hours. Screenshots shared on Reddit even show ads longer than the actual video ...

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

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

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 ...

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