Ben Affleck is reppin’ the DunKings with a whole new crew for Dunkin’s 2025 Super Bowl commercial. The Oscar-winning actor, ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the ...

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 ...

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 ...