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 ...

Technical Details: Google’s statement reveals a deliberate strategy to discourage ad blocker usage. While standard YouTube ads are limited to 15 seconds, users with ad blockers report ...

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As far as I can remember, one of its first moves was to send a pop-up warning saying, “Video playback is blocked unless YouTube is allowlisted or the ad blocker is disabled.” However ...

For example, if an ad blocker is actively preventing advertisements, only the first part of an article may be shown or a page may not render at all. Users are generally requested to unblock the ...