YouTube Is Showing You Hours of Unskippable Ads

Explicit ads are plaguing YouTube, and it’s only getting worse
A child mistaking an adult actress in an explicit ad for a popular YouTuber is yet another troubling example of YouTube's ongoing bad ads problem.
Hours-long unskippable ads spotted on YouTube. What’s going on?
Google is getting sick and tired of YouTube watchers who use ad blockers, and — no surprise — the company is stepping it up in an effort to extract (reclaim?) even more ad revenue from users. On Reddit,
YouTube is showing 3-hour-long un-skippable ads and it’s not a glitch
YouTube users have reported encountering excessively long, un-skippable ads, with some lasting between 57 minutes to 3 hours. Screenshots shared on Reddit even show ads longer than the actual video being watched.
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YouTube ads are getting more frustrating, with some users reporting unskippable ads that are nearly an hour long. Are ad blockers to blame?
YouTube is serving up hours of continuous ads for some, but Google says it's not a bug
YouTube ads are now unskippable and can last for several hours, jsut to deter users with adblockers. Google is cracking down on freeloaders by showing excessively long ads to promote premium subscriptions.
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