Mashable9mon
Instagram is testing unskippable ads. Users hate it.
We've seen unskippable ads on other platforms, such as YouTube, where you'll typically see such ads before a video starts (or, in the middle, if it's a longer video). While these are annoying ...
Roku Tests Putting Ads In the Worst Place
The business of streaming is revolving more and more around how many ads users are willing to sit through for the sake of ...
Roku fans are furious with a new ad shown before you even see the home screen – it's a test for now, but it's not a good sign of things to come
As Ars Technica reports, Roku has confirmed that the auto-playing adverts are supposed to be there as part of an experiment.
Roku's new ads are egregious even by smart TV standards
Roku confirmed the auto-playing ads are a thing, and said they are an official test. However, the company stopped short of ...
GIGAZINE1mon
After ad blocker users were shown unskippable ads for nearly three hours, YouTube said it 'did not set up such ads'
Since around January 2025, there have been a series of reports of YouTube displaying unskippable ads that last for several hours. Since these ads are being displayed to users of 'ad blockers' that ...
BGR8y
Google is mercifully killing YouTube’s unskippable 30-second ads
In a statement originally provided to Campaign, Google explained: “We’ve decided to stop supporting 30-second unskippable ads as of 2018 and focus instead on formats that work well for both us ...