YouTube started showing 3-hour ads without the «skip» — option to overcome blockers

News Software 01-27-2025 at 09:47 comment
YouTube users complain that the platform now streams very long ads that cannot be skipped.

uBlock Origin Lite ad blocker has been removed from the Firefox store — now the extension is only available on GitHub

News Software 10-01-2024 at 12:14 comment
The uBlock Origin Lite extension, which allows you to block unwanted content on web pages, is no longer available in the Firefox Utility Store.

YouTube is testing server-side ad integration to better counter ad blockers

News Software 06-13-2024 at 11:51 comment
The developer of SponsorBlock, an extension designed to skip sponsored video segments, said that YouTube is experimenting with server-side ad integration.

YouTube immediately rewinds the video to the very end if the user has an activated ad blocker

News Software 05-27-2024 at 20:13 comment
It seems that YouTube continues to encourage users to disable ad blockers. The new restriction is indeed quite severe – it does not allow you to watch videos at all if you have an ad blocker activated for YouTube.

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