For me it seems to have fixed it by turning "block trackers" off, so that it is disabled. The setting is just underneath where you turn the addblocker on or off.
@mgeffro Thank you for providing the explanation. However, I am still not happy with enforced permissions. I would rather have the pop up and the choice to choose and to remove Google any time I wish. Period.
Aside from the "AdAway workaround" - I am really confused that nobody dislikes all the advertisements in Opera now.
The last version used to be ad-free, plain, content-focused - and now this? Speed Dial / News has ads every where, reading mode has an ads on the bottom - this should not happen when the ad blocker is enabled.
I would even pay for an ad-free version - how about that, Opera? 😉