The company encouraged users who blocked ads to upgrade to YouTube Premium and disabled all videos if they refused. This year, the video service is expanding the enforcement of its ad-blocker ...

Unsurprisingly, people are quick to blame YouTube's ad-blocker crackdown for any related glitches. Intentional or not, these latest issues make using ad blockers so irritating that you'll likely ...

If the prompt was ignored, videos would not play. In November 2023, YouTube expanded its ad blocker crackdown globally, giving users the option to pay a monthly fee or watch ads. This move led to ...