Some affected users took to the r/youtube subreddit to complain about the new feature. One Redditor claimed they received 90 ...

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

With its new unskippable ad feature, YouTube might end up killing ... A Google spokesperson explained the test to Gizmodo: "YouTube is improving its performance and reliability in serving both ...

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

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

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 ...

but with new lines denying that YouTube serves long, unskippable ads in the first place. "YouTube does not serve minutes-long, non-skippable ads," I was told. The company also said "Viewers with ...

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

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 ...

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

Some users are seeing hour-long unskippable ... and forth with ad blockers on YouTube, so many of them don’t even work anymore. You might find yourself unable to play new clips until you disable ...

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 ...