Opera Ad Blocker vs YouTube

[martinkukel]

martinkukel last edited by

The new version of Opera promotes a new ad blocker — it says ‘no ads in videos.’
The paradox is that the old ad blocker used to work on YouTube and ads were hardly shown at all. But with the new version of Opera and the new ad blocker, no video even starts playing, and you have to disable the ad blocker to make YouTube usable.

I don’t understand this step backwards. And on top of that, it’s being promoted as a new feature.

Or am I doing something wrong somewhere?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @martinkukel last edited by

@martinkukel It's been happening for about a year or more, since YouTube started blocking ad-blockers.

Usually it's fixed after the ad-blocker is updated, so you probably just need to wait.