Users on YouTube's subreddit report that the platform is supposedly "throttling"/slowing down its video experience in a new way. Reports claim that if YouTube detects an ad blocker, it will delay your ...

Some YouTube viewers with ad-blocking extensions are now seeing black screens for a few seconds before a video plays. These black screens could be ads that haven’t ...

YouTube Premium offers an ad-free experience, but it's not cheap. If you jumped into the subscription, you may have thought it was the only way to avoid interrupting your movie trailers, cuts into ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. This article is more than 2 years old. YouTube is ramping up its ad ...

YouTube ads have gotten way out of hand in recent years, but despite that, ads are still necessary to handle the costs of running the world’s largest video platform, and paying the millions of ...

The YouTube ad blocker cat-and-mouse game between Google and ad blockers continues with a new episode that might deliver a big win to Google. The company has been trying to ban ad blocker extensions ...

YouTube users who deploy ad blockers may soon be staring at a blank screen: Alphabet’s YouTube has confirmed to multiple outlets that it is running “a small ...

YouTube’s crackdown on ad blockers is causing users to uninstall the software in record numbers. However, an even higher number of users are instead turning to ...

Post updated on 6/14 to add a comment from Google confirming the reports about experimentation with alternative ad injection methods. YouTube reportedly now injects ads directly into video streams to ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. YouTube has confirmed that it has ‘launched a global effort’ to crack down on ad blockers. YouTube has confirmed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Google’s YouTube is ramping up its crackdown on privacy-preserving ad ...