Four years have passed since Spotify first announced its HiFi streaming option in February 2021, yet the feature remains ...

YouTube's advertising model has long been a source of frustration for its vast user base. The platform's approach to monetization, which often involves interrupting videos with ...

Trivia 360 offers multiplayer, simple gameplay, but is plagued by excessive ads. Erudite features unique gameplay, but has unskippable ads and repetitive questions. Quizzland is a responsive ...

YouTube’s war against ad blockers has apparently paid off, as the platform reportedly raked in over $36 billion last year in advertisements alone. YouTube is one of the most popular video ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...