Getting utterly annoyed with ads while watching YouTube videos is something you must have undoubtedly faced, let’s suppose, but the real deal is how you get around this pain point.

Since the paid YouTube Premium subscription is apparently a costly way to skip those ads, the most likely and off the top of one’s head workaround is deploying an ad blocker, using which is what appears to have started disrupting the YouTube experience, as reported by some users on Reddit.

Some even shared screenshots depicting videos with comments turned off, perhaps owing to the use of ad blockers. This is something Google strongly advises against.

While unfortunate, this happening explicitly conveys that using workarounds gets you out of one problem and straight into another.

To vent out their frustration about the mysterious disappearance of video comments and descriptions, many users took to Reddit and other forums. 

While it is definitely triggered by ad blocker use, even though unconfirmed, some tech geeks nevertheless tried their hand, debating whether Google—being one of the richest corporations—should have this ad thing in place, or it is something that’s needed to keep the platform running and supporting Google’s cash outflow to creators in royalties.

Although chances are good that YouTube is deliberately disabling comments and descriptions whenever it detects an ad blocker in use, another possibility is such tools’ innate tendency to remove descriptions and comments from videos.

What needs to be noted here is that this isn’t the first time ad blockers have become a headache on the platform. Creators last year noticed a sharp decline in view counts. That happened because views from users with ad blockers were not being counted.

Google has even purportedly been resorting to slowing down playback speeds or blocking access straight away for those using ad-blocking tools.

While the absence of comments isn’t the worst thing Google could have done, it would surely hurt the community aspect of YouTube, since comments are crucial for engaging with creators, and many creators rely on ad revenue to support their work.

If at all, it seems like a losing battle for Google, and thus the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between ad blockers and platforms like YouTube will likely continue, with issues popping up and getting fixed, only to resurface again.

Gordon Ramsay shared his parenting regrets, admitting he missed the  essence of fatherhood in his new Netflix show.

The Netflix docuseries titled Being Gordon Ramsay has just landed on the streaming platform, allowing viewers to peek behind the curtain of his life.

In the first episode of the docuseries, Gordon opened up about his troubled childhood with his alcoholic dad, Gordon. 

In the show, the TV personality, 59, also admits his own parenting regrets.

He says he sometimes prioritised work over being there for his four eldest children; daughter Megan, 27, twins Holly and Jack 26, and Tilly, 24.

He says: ‘I, sadly, had a torrid relationship with my father. My father called me a snob once. And I said, “No, definitely not a snob. I just want to get out of the s**t mess I was born in.’

For those unversed, Gordon juggled three jobs to support his family and lived in 15 different council estates growing up.

The chef recalls weekends where he would ‘almost watch his father ruin his life through alcohol’.

He continues: ‘It’s hard, isn’t it, when someone’s an alcoholic? It’s very hard to relate to that, because you’re just … you’re nervous.

‘You’re worried about, you know, hitting the end of the bottle and seeing that bottle of Bacardi disappear, because you know what happens at the end of that.’

However, Gordon turned to cooking after his football career was short due to a knee injury.

American actor and filmmaker Shia LaBeouf was released Tuesday, hours after he was arrested for allegedly assaulting two men.

The 39-year-old Even Stevens star was detained by the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) early Tuesday, February 17, 2026, at around 12:45 a.m. after two men reported they were assaulted by the actor.

NOPD responded to a scene in the 1400 block of Royal Street and identified the 2003 Daytime Emmy Award winner as the man causing “a disturbance and becoming increasingly aggressive inside a Royal Street business.”

Police said LaBeouf was told to leave by a staff member; however, he became increasingly aggressive and struck the employee multiple times.

After the alleged unprovoked attack, he left the scene. He then came back and started hitting the same person again as people tried to hold him back.

LaBeouf then hit another man on the nose, who was later transported to the hospital. The extent of victims’ injuries remains unknown.

LaBeouf is facing two charges of simple battery.

The Orleans Parish Records show LaBeouf appeared virtually in court at noon Tuesday and was released on condition that he will attend all future court hearings.

His next court hearing is scheduled for March 19, 2026.