YouTube is making changes to the skip button for ads, but it's not hiding the button entirely, just not showing it right away.

“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.” ...

YouTube ad segments can be annoying but have a Skip option available after a few seconds. Users have noticed a change in the Skip button's display, potentially leading to confusion. The absence of ...

YouTube spokesperson Oluwa Falodun says in a statement to Android Police that " YouTube is not hiding the skip button. On skippable ads, the button appears after 5 seconds into playback, as always.

Late last year, the streaming giant began testing a skip button that would only show up roughly five-seconds after an ad had started playing.

YouTube is now hiding the 'skip' button whenever ads are playing, and users don't want it.

YouTube is definitively saying that it isn’t hiding the skip button, but the company also confirmed that it’s changing some elements of ads.