Google was Bring his crusade against AdBlocker to a whole new level Recently, users have speculated that indispensable ads are their latest weapon for several hours. Last week, Redditors shared screenshots, which show that they were received with Runtimes for up to three hours and without an overflow in sight – and that is to watch videos that are much Shorter than the ads themselves.
Android authority Was the first to report on the phenomenon and linked to users threads Lin1xx And Standard SLIP6572, who complained about the interruptions of the characteristic length, which was completed with the pictures of their screens with the ads in full view. The publication also referred to commentators who gave further claims and said they were served 10 hours or 90-hour adsAlthough these more extreme accusations were missing.
If all of this sounds a little incredible to you, you have good instincts. In one of the linked photos above you may see a small pop -up that is separated from YouTube’s user interface, in which “Skip Show” means it is a skip … “
This pop-up gave Android’s authority to ask whether only users perform advertising blockers who receive this type of treatment. A question that the author Aamir Siddiqui has on YouTube to receive confirmation. While the company does not admit specific criminal behavior for users who use AdBlocker, his answer seemed to indicate what is going on when you read between the lines.
“… the use of ad blockers violates YouTube’s terms of use,” says Google’s explanation. “We started global efforts to push the viewers with ad blockers to allow ad on YouTube or to try YouTube premium for an advertising frequency.”
From YouTube own entryHazy notes should be limited to 15 seconds (or Up to 60 seconds in the YouTube TV)), whether on purpose or not, confused here if the demands of the redditors are true. While I received hours of ads myself, a Skip button has always appeared for you.
I turned to YouTube to get further clarification, and the company sent me an answer that resembles Android authority, but with new lines that deny that YouTube primarily serves long, light -heartable ads. “YouTube does not serve not tiltable displays for minutes,” I was told. The company also said that “viewers with advertising blockers can experience a suboptimal viewing experience, since some advertising blockers distort the YouTube playback experience.”
This does not necessarily give the ad blockers responsible for the respective problem or admits that they add a targeted change behind the scenes, although it is open to the possibility of the “distorted” reproduction (which means that means).
It is worth noting that despite this rejection the move does Put together with the recent behavior of the company. Previously the company Injected ads directly in videos so that ad blockers cannot recognize you, as well as used pop-ups Block users with ad blockers to watch videos at all. Google Chrome as a whole has also started Deactivate certain ad blockersThanks to a controversial change from the API expansion developers.
If you notice an uniflable display on YouTube on YouTube, deactivate your ad blocker to determine whether this will fix the problem. If this is the case, you may want to try to see the video in incognito mode again to determine whether the problem is linked to your account. This should help you What to do next?.
Update 27.01.25 at 6:15 p.m. ET: The answer from YouTube added.
