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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

That's nothing. How about a 60-minutes long ad? And such that can't be skipped? Reports come up that point in that direction. One notable example came from a Reddit user who shared their experience of ...

We recently reported about a few bizarre cases of YouTube viewers seeing hour-long unskippable ads. This particular article sparked a lot of conversation on our website, with many frustrated users ...

Google is taking stronger action against YouTube users who rely on ad blockers. The company has introduced a new strategy: extremely long, unskippable ads. Users report encountering ads lasting ...

Google has responded after a YouTube viewer went viral showing a 60-minute unskippable ad. YouTube’s battle with ad blockers has been taking place over the last few years as the Google-owned ...

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 ...