Free YouTube users are reporting that ad blockers that previously worked on the site have suddenly stopped working.

YouTube may be throttling playback for ad blocker users, while also preparing to roll out longer, unskippable ad formats ...

YouTube is rewriting the rules of engagement, shutting down ad blockers with a decisive no-play policy and sealing off the ...

YouTube's fight against ad blockers began with an experiment in May 2023, when it started warning users that ad blockers were ...

YouTube is deliberately slowing video loading for users with ad blockers enabled, in what appears to be an escalation in ...

YouTube continues its battle against ad blockers, now disabling video buffering for an ad's duration, complete with a ...

YouTube has found a new way to fight ad-blockers. It delays videos and shows a pop-up that links to a support page urging users to remove ad-blockers and extensions.

What Happened: SponsorBlock, a crowdsourced Google Chrome extension designed to bypass sponsored content, reported on YouTube’s latest crackdown in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

The company encouraged users who blocked ads to upgrade to YouTube Premium and disabled all videos if they refused. This year, the video service is expanding the enforcement of its ad-blocker ...

A crackdown on the widespread usage of ad-blockers could drive revenue for the California-based tech giant. Given that YouTube is by far the pre-eminent online video-sharing platform, it is ...

What Happened: SponsorBlock, a crowdsourced Google Chrome extension designed to bypass sponsored content, reported on YouTube’s latest crackdown in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. YouTube is ...