Opera Ad Blocker vs YouTube
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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?
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leocg Moderator Volunteer 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.
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uyikykfkgfdkgijdgujdsugfkihg last edited by
Releasing the new adblock in Opera appears to have been a mistake.
Let's be honest we all use adblocks mostly for Youtube.
After updating Opera, I briefly turned on the new adblock, even though I already had uBlock Origin.
The result is "an error occurred please try again later" error. It goes away after 2 or 3 refreshes, but still annoying.
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fitzydj last edited by
@martinkukel I read in another thread uBlock Origin Lite is available from The Chrome Web Store and my testing so far it works fine with You Tube.
Opera One(version: 132.0.5905.11)
uBlock Origin Lite Version 2026.507.2008 -
Deathbunny last edited by
While uBlock Origin has stated their support for Chromium is being eroded by the incoming feature sets, if you manually update it still blocks the new Youtube methods of circumventing AdBlockers.
While it is perfectly understandable as their primary source of income, nobody in the history of ever has wanted nor enjoyed ads (apart from those rare gems that enter history).
The legality of removing part of a service that they seem to think you consent to by using, and apparently certain countries this is the law...is sketchy at best.
The real question to ask is how the "other" video content providers keep going without intrusive ads.
Youtube should stick to providing over 1080p options only to subscribers, and limiting uploadable content without subscriber. Rantrant.
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SWK058 last edited by
As fast as (finally) YT deletes addon adblockers and downloaders, same day new one in Chrome store.
I never saw 1 ad on yt: from 2007.
Volume is gone (3/4 lower) i thought maybe new punishment?
