Privacy campaigner Alexander Hanff claims that YouTube’s new ad blocker detection is illegal under European law, and he's taking the fight to the European ...

What’s happened? Around midnight today, reports spiked on Downdetector suggesting YouTube might be down, but by 6:00 AM, the number of reports surged into the thousands. The twist? YouTube wasn’t ...

Google YouTube’s crackdown on ad blockers has just ramped up further, with the streaming platform introducing new measures to stop users from using the privacy-preserving technology on its site.

Step away from that uBlock button, bucko-YouTube just slammed the door on its last big ad-blocker loophole, and the internet is having a collective “skip ad” meltdown. YouTube’s war on ad blockers ...

In order to combat YouTube's move, SponsorBlock has implemented a block on all user submissions from browsers that are experiencing this YouTube experiment. However ...

Google is intensifying its efforts to counter ad blockers, particularly on YouTube, by experimenting with server-side ad injection. This method embeds ads directly into video streams, making them ...

YouTube is reportedly slowing video playback for users with adblockers. Reports indicate deliberate delays and black screens before videos load. This new tactic seems part of YouTube’s anti-adblock ...

Over the past few days, there have been an increasing number of reports about supposed YouTube outages. The number of reports rose sharply on fault-tracking platforms ...

Why this is important: This isn’t just a bug, but a spotlight on how major platforms like YouTube are tightening control over reasoned ad-blocking. For users, the shift means the browsing experience ...