YouTube says it is ‘not hiding the skip button’ on ads

Claudio Ctin6 hours ago5 hours ago1 mins

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Some YouTube users have observed the platform making it harder to skip ads in recent days. On Reddit, a user reported seeing black rectangles over the skip button on desktop instead of the expected countdown timer, and a few days later, Android Police reported not seeing a countdown to skip on mobile.

But in statements to The Verge, YouTube says it isn’t removing the skip button — it’s just changing some elements of how ads are displayed.

“YouTube is not hiding the skip button,” YouTube spokesperson Oluwa Falodun says in a statement to The Verge. “On skippable ads, the button appears after 5 seconds into playback, as always.”

As for the changes, Falodun says that YouTube is “reducing elements on the ads player” so that “viewers can…

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