As such, it may only affect people who are using YouTube with an ad blocker. It's likely that whatever the ad blocker is ...

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

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 ...

And now, YouTube has released a statement addressing this issue. There is still a skip ad button on YouTube videos According ...

Upon closer inspection, in the second image below the video, you can see the option “Skipping ads,” which signals the use of ...

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

YouTube’s war on ad blockers has paid off big time, with the platform reportedly raking in $36 billion in 2024 off ads alone.

Google has responded after a YouTube viewer went viral on Reddit showing a 60-minute unskippable ad on a video.

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

Users reported about unskippable YouTube ads that are nearly three hours long, though there's a chance that it's an ad ...

If you want an ad-free YouTube experience ... hosted trailers – with ads intact – into articles, so I have to skip through a lot of clips' intros to find the right ones; without an ad-blocker ...