Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. This article is more than 2 years old. YouTube is ramping up its ad ...

Google's anti-adblocking banner on YouTube which prevents videos from playing is back. Opera, OperaGX, and Firefox may be affected. It could also be making Chrome ...

YouTube denied further intensifying loading speed issues as part of its efforts to discourage ad blocker use. However, both Premium users and those using ad blockers have reported problems with the ...

YouTube Expands Ad-Blocker Crackdown, But Chrome Store Still Promotes Them YouTube puts more measures in place to stop users from skipping ads, but Google's Chrome store still offers tons of ...

Adblock and Adblock Plus users report performance issues on YouTube, initially blamed on Google but later determined to be an issue in the popular ad-blocking extension. Adblock and Adblock Plus are ...

At this stage, you can't watch content on YouTube if you're using some of the popular ad-blocking solutions available. In other words, YouTube's ad blocker crackdown has seen some success. According ...

Folks online have accused YouTube of targeting AdBlock users with degraded performance, with reports of the desktop player freezing up, lagging while buffering, and hogging CPU usage. YouTube has ...

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 ...