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

Super Bowl LIX is already proving to offer serious star power, with ad spots led by Chris Pratt, Eugene Levy, Michelle ...

The Kremlin is trying to cripple YouTube in Russia, internet experts say, pushing some people to state-controlled domestic ...

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

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 ...

YouTube must improve ad moderation due to increasing user discomfort with explicit and fake ads. A child was exposed to a ...

Google started a big fight against ad blocker use on YouTube a few years ago, which was perfectly understandable. YouTube is free for people who don’t want to pay for a Premium subscription ...

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.

Ads that are 60, or even 120 minutes long on YouTube: and the best part is that they can't be skipped. I guess we've reached the lower circles of hell now. Joking aside, YouTube's ads are getting more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...