It’s been a rough year for Oscar-eligible songs. First, Robbie Williams’ entry from “Better Man” was disqualified, then some ...

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 ...

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 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 more. Screenshots shared on Reddit show ads ...

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 ...

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. Google has denied reports that it’s serving ...

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 ...

We recently reported about a few bizarre cases of YouTube viewers seeing hour-long unskippable ads ... during the night when my kid was watching music videos for bedtime. Still annoyed about ...

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 ...

By YouTube’s own admission, unskippable ads are supposed to be limited to 15-seconds (or up to 60 seconds on YouTube TV), so whether on purpose or not, something is definitely messing up here ...