In response, Google has intensified its crackdown on such freeloaders, particularly in 2025, by introducing extreme ...

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 ...

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 is taking an aggressive stance against adblockers in 2025, rolling out unskippable ads that sometimes last longer than the videos users intend to ...

Google denies serving extended unskippable ads on YouTube despite survey showing 31% of users encounter ads longer than two ...

Typically, YouTube's non-skippable ads are capped at 15 seconds. However, Google appears to be bending its rules to combat ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Just about all of the big names in tech have now faced issues with EU regulations, but Meta has been unique in its insistence ...

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 ...