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YouTube users are experiencing extremely long, unskippable ads, sometimes up to an hour long. There’s a good chance that ad blockers might be contributing to the issue. Google maintains that it ...

Inevitably, whenever there is a discussion on the internet about how YouTube (or any other website) is choked with ads, someone will say, "Just use an ad blocker." The name seems to say it all. An ad ...

YouTube acknowledges that ad blockers could be a reason for lower view counts for videos. It notes that ad blockers can impact the accuracy of reported view counts. Other possible explanations for the ...