Google is getting sick and tired of YouTube watchers who use ad blockers, and — no surprise — the company is stepping it up in an effort to extract (reclaim?) even more ad revenue from users. On ...

YouTube ads are getting more frustrating, with some users reporting unskippable ads that are nearly an hour long. Are ad blockers to blame?

With its new unskippable ad feature, YouTube might end up killing ad blockers once and for all. Currently, the video platform is experimenting with server-side ad injection, which means the ads ...

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 ...

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.

Users with ad blockers are reporting seeing hourslong unskippable ads. Users with ad blockers are reporting seeing hourslong unskippable ads. Google has denied reports that it’s serving ...

A user on Reddit has recently encountered an hour-long unskippable ad on YouTube. The issue could be attributed to an ad blocker, which Google is proactively cracking down on. Google issued a ...

Ads are a part of life now, and they permeate our internet experience. This is especially true for people who use YouTube for free. Users are subject to the obligatory 15-second unskippable ads ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...