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

Google has denied reports that it’s serving unskippable ads that last for minutes or even hours to some YouTube users who ...

Android Authority's survey shows a clear discrepancy between Google's claims about unskippable ads on YouTube and what users ...

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 ...

The results are similar to ones that Precise and Giraffe released last year, when the groups found that 60 percent of teens ...

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

But if you’re willing to put a bit of effort in you can stop a large chunk of YouTube ads from making it to your own computers and smartphones. [Eric] is setting up this adblocking system on his ...

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.

YouTube has become a bit of a joke when it comes to being an advertising platform. Several years ago, the company fell out of ...

Reports of sexually explicit ads appearing on YouTube have gone up significantly, with users getting increasingly concerned about the platform’s content moderation efforts. A new incident shared ...

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

While YouTube maintains it doesn't serve hour-long ads, that might be true for regular viewers who would watch it rather than pay a subscription fee. However, the aggressively long ads might be a ...