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 ...

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 ...

SEE ALSO: This ad blocker and data privacy tool is only $30 for life Google has been cracking down on ad-blockers across many of its products, like YouTube. It's a real buzzkill for the majority ...

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 ...

Let’s start off this rant with a little context. As a web writer, I should never block advertising on the internet. The majority of the money I’ve been paid over the last 13 years has come ...