YouTube users have reported encountering excessively long, un-skippable ads, with some lasting between 57 minutes to 3 hours. Screenshots shared on Reddit even show ads longer than the actual video ...

In response, Google has intensified its crackdown on such freeloaders, particularly in 2025, by introducing extreme ...

YouTube ads are now unskippable and can last for several hours, jsut to deter users with adblockers. Google is cracking down ...