YouTube’s ad blocker detection technology is facing legal challenges from privacy advocates who claim it violates their privacy rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). According to ...

YouTube's war on adblockers has been well-documented over the last several months, but it's taken a frustrating new twist for users still attempting to block ads on the popular video platform.

YouTube reached out to us and provided the following statement “Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service, and we’ve been urging users for some time to ...

YouTube is testing out a new anti-adblocking feature. The feature appears as a popup with a 30-60 second timer warning when the next ad will play. The popup blocks videos from playing until the user ...

If you go down to YouTube today you're in for a big surprise – or at least, you are if you're using an ad blocker. What began as a test of anti-blocking measures has now become an official "global ...

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 ...

Temporary workarounds exist ...

Data shows Google’s attempts to force people to watch YouTube ads are having an effect on user behavior. 22% of users surveyed said the crackdown is more likely to make them use an ad-blocker. 16% of ...

YouTube has found itself at the heart of another battle with ad-blockers, accused of deliberately slowing down video loading for users with Adblock. In November of the previous year, users on Firefox ...

Earlier this week, YouTube confirmed “a global effort” to crack down on ad blockers — and it’s already affecting the ad blocker business. A new report from ...

The YouTube ad blocker crackdown that began in 2023 is not yet over, and while the company already effected the changes against these kinds of services, it is now moving against third-party apps that ...

Users who try to view a YouTube video while running an adblocker can expect to be greeted with a pop-up warning that warns that such apps aren't allowed and those users were asked to either allow the ...