Google has responded after a YouTube viewer went viral on Reddit showing a 60-minute unskippable ad on a video.

YouTube ads are getting more frustrating, with some users reporting unskippable ads that are nearly an hour long. Are ad blockers to blame?

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Google launches Meridian, an open-source marketing tool using advanced modeling to optimize ad budgets and measure campaign effectiveness.

Almost seven years after its first release, the YouTube Music app has hit the 5 billion download milestone on the Google Play Store.

After Mark Zuckerberg's big announcement that Meta will no longer fact check, Google is also sending a message to the European Union: The search giant is opting out of a new EU law that requires fact checks.

Google blocked U.S. users access to the 48 videos referenced in the injunction, but ultimately, the court amended its order and required Google to disable the entire channel. When Google failed to do so, Future Motion asked the court to impose sanctions. Google objected, and the court agreed with Google.

YouTube users are reporting seeing unskippable multi-hour ads, but it seems like they might be limited to users running ad-blockers.

Google has denied reports that it’s serving unskippable ads that last for minutes or even hours to some YouTube users who have ad blockers enabled, instead blaming ad blockers themselves for any “suboptimal viewing experience.” Users have complained of seeing unskippable YouTube ads ranging from a few minutes to several hours in duration.

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence without parole since 2015, when he was convicted of multiple charges, including the distribution of narcotics.