Google is reportedly using YouTube errors, preventing video playback, to get users to disable ad blockers in their browsers.

New research suggests advertisers and agencies are shifting YouTube into their TV budgets and out of "online video" and "social" slots.

YouTube is cracking down on the use of ad blockers on its site, with the Google-owned streaming service warning people to disable the privacy-preserving tools. YouTube is cracking down on the use of ...

Temporary workarounds exist ...

YouTube appears to be stepping up its long war on ad blockers this week. The creator of SponsorBlock, a crowdsourced ad blocker, posted a tweet on Wednesday claiming YouTube is experimenting with ...

What’s happened? Around midnight today, reports spiked on Downdetector suggesting YouTube might be down, but by 6:00 AM, the number of reports surged into the thousands. The twist? YouTube wasn’t ...

YouTube has begun skipping videos for users attempting to access the service with an active ad blocker. If you manage to get past the skipping videos, YouTube also mutes the video. Users report ...

Update: October 31, 2023 (11:26 PM ET): After our original report about an increasing number of users being unable to use ad blockers on YouTube, the platform has confirmed to The Verge that it has ...

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 from web ...