A legitimate-looking Google Search advertisement for the crypto trading platform 'Whales Market' redirects visitors to a wallet-draining phishing site that steals all of your assets. Whales Market is ...

YouTube appears to be stepping up its long war on ad blockers this week. The creator of SponsorBlock, a crowdsourced ad blocker, posted a tweet on Wednesday claiming YouTube is experimenting with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Google’s YouTube is ramping up its crackdown on privacy-preserving ad ...

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 ...

YouTube is changing the way it does mid-roll ads. It will show fewer ads in places where they feel interruptive and more at “natural break points.” Creators who have mid-roll ads in interruptive ...

Update: October 31, 2023 (11:26 PM ET): After our original report about an increasing number of users being unable to use ad blockers on YouTube, the platform has confirmed to The Verge that it has ...