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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. YouTube is using pop-up ads to tell users to stop using ad-blockers while watching videos.YoGinta/Getty Images YouTube is cracking ...

The best part about one company revolutionizing video-sharing on the internet is that it gets the say in how awful that experience can be. After beginning to roll out a healthy nudge to turn off ad ...

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 ...

YouTube has started preventing users from using ad blockers more widely, leading to spiked uninstalls of ad blockers. The platform shows pop-ups that read “Ad ...

Gone are the days when users enjoyed their hack of using YouTube with ad blockers, as the company has now fully blocked the technology from being used with the streaming platform. In this latest ...

It's getting harder to avoid watching ads on YouTube. Users on X, formerly known as Twitter, and other social media sites, have complained of a new pop-up on YouTube warning against the use of ad ...