Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Google’s YouTube is ramping up its crackdown on privacy-preserving ad ...

YouTube is expanding its crackdown on ad blockers to mobile users, escalating its "global effort" to make you watch ads. Reading time 2 minutes YouTube has become the internet’s go-to library for all ...

Earlier this week, YouTube confirmed “a global effort” to crack down on ad blockers — and it’s already affecting the ad blocker business. A new report from ...

YouTube continues its war on ad blockers, recently showing a notice that confirms videos are slightly slowed down for ad blocker users, while the platform is preparing for longer ad formats. Earlier ...

YouTube is limiting comments and video descriptions for certain users. The common root cause appears to be their use of an ad blocker on the web. The issue also affects some YouTube Premium users.

In a nutshell: YouTube is now 20 years old, and the platform has changed significantly since its early days. A sizable minority of users is fed up with invasive advertising and actively seek ways to ...

YouTube is running a new experiment to limit usage on ad blockers by asking users to turn it off or buy a premium subscription after three videos. Users on Reddit posted screenshots of the streaming ...

YouTube is reportedly disabling comments and video descriptions for some ad‑blocker users.

Over the past month or so, many YouTubers have been reporting major drops to their video view counts. Theories have run wild, but there’s one explanation involving ad blockers that makes the most ...

YouTube's drawn-out war against ad blockers has found yet another front. On Monday, users began reporting glitches within the YouTube video player, including muted videos and clips that skip ...