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 ...

YouTube began waging war against ad blockers last year in an attempt to force users to either sign up for a YouTube Premium subscription or actually watch the ads they were being served. Most popular ...

NEW YORK — Internet users who install ad-blocking software to escape annoying advertisements may actually be seeing more problematic content than people who browse without any protection at all.

Having made its name, steamrolling ads - a primary revenue source of many publishers and content creators - the company is rolling out its own supply-side platform (SSP) with the help of ad tech ...

Site ads are a nuisance, we all know that. Some of them are obnoxious in the extreme, such as videos that autoplay without your approval. This has given rise to advertising blockers, most notably ...

The company announced the initiative yesterday. It hasn’t gone down well with all users, many of whom will now begin to see adverts on pages that the extension previously stripped bare. The ...

But ad blocking extensions typically remove ads as well as blocking them. For banner ads that means gaining back screen real estate on the webpage, while for videos that means the content starts ...

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Many users report that YouTube videos automatically skip to the end or muting video if they are using an ad blocker, making it impossible for them to watch the video. The issue began yesterday, and ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...