<![CDATA[How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension?]]>Opera decided to block Tampermonkey for no apparent reason and doesn't give me any obvious way to re-enable it. The scripts are pretty important to my browsing experience... how do I re-enable Tampermonkey? And is there a way to disable this stupid feature that blocks extension without the user's consent?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/30366/how-can-i-re-enable-a-blacklisted-extensionRSS for NodeSun, 10 May 2026 00:32:23 GMTSat, 05 Jan 2019 04:26:18 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:34:21 GMT]]>If you want to use Tampermonkey from the Chrome extension store, there's no sense in wasting time with Opera. It just won't work. Even if you follow the instructions correctly and Tampermonkey is temporarily unblocked, Opera will decide for you that this isn't good and re-block it some hours later. And since they have successfully been ignoring this support request for the last 5 years, I would not expect anything new. I can understand that--deleting Tampermonkey's ID from the list of blocked extension would literally mean 30 seconds of work, and no one can really ask for that much commitment.
Just use another decent Chromium-based browser. I would suggest Vivaldi (https://vivaldi.com), which is at least as versatile as Opera.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/343655https://forums.opera.com/post/343655Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:34:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Thu, 22 Feb 2024 23:03:58 GMT]]>please be more specific this did not help at all i do not get the "user folder (On windows: "C:\Users[username]\AppData\Roaming"), then Opera Software, Opera Stable, and open "Preferences" in a text editor that has a find feature. " what is that

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/343623https://forums.opera.com/post/343623Thu, 22 Feb 2024 23:03:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Sat, 17 Jun 2023 00:08:09 GMT]]>I love being told a file exists on my computer when it doesnt. Please provide an alternative.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/313446https://forums.opera.com/post/313446Sat, 17 Jun 2023 00:08:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Sun, 19 Jun 2022 10:23:12 GMT]]>@coder-256 i cant find the Blacklist false? any ideas why

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/283662https://forums.opera.com/post/283662Sun, 19 Jun 2022 10:23:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Wed, 13 Apr 2022 08:20:17 GMT]]>@filbo said in How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension?:

BTW @derjanb you said the Opera 'store' edition would update alongside the Firefox edition, about every 3mo.

I'm currently updloading new opera versions since January but until today there was no review yet.
I just pinged the reviewers again...

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/278948https://forums.opera.com/post/278948Wed, 13 Apr 2022 08:20:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Wed, 13 Apr 2022 07:02:23 GMT]]>BTW @derjanb you said the Opera 'store' edition would update alongside the Firefox edition, about every 3mo. https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/tampermonkey-beta/ is on 4.13.6138, updated 2021-06-22, while FF is on 4.16.6160, updated 2022-04-05.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/278947https://forums.opera.com/post/278947Wed, 13 Apr 2022 07:02:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Wed, 13 Apr 2022 06:58:04 GMT]]>Since this was reawakened: the file I previously pointed to (https://extension-updates.opera.com/static/omaha/blacklist.txt) no longer exists; but TM is still blacklisted by Opera. It appears in my Preferences file -- certainly not by my preference, but injected there by Opera.

Opera! There is no reason to be blacklisting Tampermonkey non-beta.

@derjanb got some sort of response from them a long time ago, some sort of guff about TM being force-installed into people's Opera installations by some sort of malware, then used to run the malware's browser extension. Great. That is a bug, misfeature, attack, however you want to characterize it, ON THE PART OF THE MALWARE, not Tampermonkey!

And whatever that malware was, years ago, it is surely handled by people's antivirus etc. these days.

Please un-blacklist TamperMonkey non-beta, ID 'dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo', from the Chrome 'store'. And the one from Opera 'store', but I don't know its non-beta ID as you've hidden it in the web UI.

See also DNAWIZ-49270; github.com/Tampermonkey/tampermonkey/issues/635

There were also comments about it on some of the beta blog posts, but those posts now have zero comments at all (https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2019/01/opera-59-0-3187-0-developer-update/#comment-4270524260) -- ???

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/278946https://forums.opera.com/post/278946Wed, 13 Apr 2022 06:58:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Tue, 05 Apr 2022 23:34:49 GMT]]>@leocg I also use Opera GX and the blacklist code in the mentioned file isn't there in ours. There are mentions of a blacklist but no extension blacklist code outright

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/278397https://forums.opera.com/post/278397Tue, 05 Apr 2022 23:34:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Tue, 05 Apr 2022 23:32:48 GMT]]>@coder-256 Something to note, regular notepad has a finder if you press Ctrl + F just like the browser

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/278396https://forums.opera.com/post/278396Tue, 05 Apr 2022 23:32:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Fri, 18 Jun 2021 10:48:52 GMT]]>@A Former User said in How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension?:

Secure Preferences

Thank you! If you can't find it in Preferences then check Secure Preferences. I was able to find it in Secure Preferences and it worked perfectly for me. Also you can install the Tapermonkey Beta extension since that's not blacklisted. Only difference is there are some bugs on the BETA version. I have no idea why opera has blacklisted this but it was a serious pain in the ass that I hope they fix. Doubt they ever will but that's what we have forums for 🙂

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/254979https://forums.opera.com/post/254979Fri, 18 Jun 2021 10:48:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Mon, 26 Oct 2020 02:22:02 GMT]]>@ViAik doesn't work. 😞

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/230486https://forums.opera.com/post/230486Mon, 26 Oct 2020 02:22:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Sun, 11 Oct 2020 13:25:04 GMT]]>@syko What you don't understand?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/228464https://forums.opera.com/post/228464Sun, 11 Oct 2020 13:25:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Sun, 11 Oct 2020 08:48:02 GMT]]>Hm. Im using opera Gx and i dont understand help

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/228445https://forums.opera.com/post/228445Sun, 11 Oct 2020 08:48:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Thu, 12 Dec 2019 03:45:47 GMT]]>@ViAik It seems that Tampermoney's id is not the same in my Preferences file. How can I know which is it?

EDIT: It wasn't in Preferences file but Secure Preferences

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/192233https://forums.opera.com/post/192233Thu, 12 Dec 2019 03:45:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Wed, 03 Apr 2019 09:45:55 GMT]]>TamperMonkey update

Windows 7 (x64)
Opera Test profile | Opera Reset / Back up

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/166999https://forums.opera.com/post/166999Wed, 03 Apr 2019 09:45:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Sat, 02 Feb 2019 14:17:28 GMT]]>Can anyone post the branch where the blacklist is?

I've been searching for it but can not find it.
Even more, I've tried in another profile and I've been able to add the TamperMonkey extension with no problem. ¿?

I've tried searching the extension's name also like here but does not appear.

The problem is just on a ODev Profile, on Stable it works fine.

Thanks

PS: Now has been blocked on the other profile.

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I'll look at the Preferences

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/163782https://forums.opera.com/post/163782Sat, 02 Feb 2019 14:17:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Sat, 05 Jan 2019 14:49:05 GMT]]>@coder-256
The fact that the extension is still listed in Chrome's Web Store and isn't blocked in Vivaldi (and other Chromium-derived browsers using the Chrome Web Store) either makes me think that blacklisting Tampermonkey simply is a bug, unless Opera knows more than anybody else on the planet.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/162154https://forums.opera.com/post/162154Sat, 05 Jan 2019 14:49:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Sat, 05 Jan 2019 13:44:10 GMT]]>Hi, thanks for finding a way to re-enable Tampermonkey. Once the scripts are exported you can also install Tampermonkey BETA from the Chrome Web Store since it is not blacklisted (at the moment). 🤞

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey-beta/gcalenpjmijncebpfijmoaglllgpjagf

I have no idea why Tampermonkey is considered to be malicious. I guess some algorithm wet wild.
I already contacted the review team via my Opera extension developer account. Hopefully they can tell me more about this issue.

https://github.com/Tampermonkey/tampermonkey/issues/635

Sorry for any inconvenience. 😢

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/162160https://forums.opera.com/post/162160Sat, 05 Jan 2019 13:44:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Sat, 05 Jan 2019 11:23:31 GMT]]>@coder-256 According to the git history, Tampermonkey went closed-source after version 2.9, in early 2013. So it has been that way for 6 years.

Opera's blacklisting of it was far more recent. I would like to hear their reason for doing so; especially as they did not blacklist the ID of the TM version found in their own 'store'.

I reported the listing to the Tampermonkey folks at https://github.com/Tampermonkey/tampermonkey/issues/635

Opera's blacklist of extensions is at https://extension-updates.opera.com/static/omaha/blacklist.txt and appears to be in chronological order of addition to the list. TM is the 2nd last entry; they must have added the last two at the same moment.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/162158https://forums.opera.com/post/162158Sat, 05 Jan 2019 11:23:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Sat, 05 Jan 2019 06:28:11 GMT]]>@viaik Thank you so much!! I created an account just to say your method worked perfectly for recovering my scripts 🙂 You saved me a ton of time!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/162143https://forums.opera.com/post/162143Sat, 05 Jan 2019 06:28:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Sat, 05 Jan 2019 05:24:12 GMT]]>At first, I wanted to re-enable Tampermonkey too. Now that I think about it, I wonder why it's been blacklisted. Who manages the blacklist, or is it automated? Either way, I did some digging, and it turns out that Tampermonkey has gone closed-source recently. This seems a bit alarming to me. I just hope that they aren't pulling a Stylish because there is no good alternative to this extension except for ViolentMonkey, which has a possibly questionable privacy policy. Nevertheless I have no real reason to suspect anything except for becoming closed-source and becoming blacklisted with no explanation, neither of which really prove anything.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/162139https://forums.opera.com/post/162139Sat, 05 Jan 2019 05:24:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Sat, 05 Jan 2019 05:05:28 GMT]]>@ViAik Thank you, this works (so far)! This let me back up my data so that I didn't lose it all. 😅

As a note to other users, it might help to do this:

  1. Find your profile by going to opera://about.
  • For Windows, it is likely C:\Users [username]\AppData\Roaming.
  • For macOS, it is likely /Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera. You can access this folder by opening Finder then clicking "Go" in the menu bar, then "Go to Folder..." and pasting the profile location.
  1. Make a backup of the Preferences file.
  2. Open the Preferences file (use TextEdit on macOS) and paste its contents into an online JSON beautifier
  3. Look for the blacklist settings in the lines below the extension ID. Also, for Mac users, the profile location is probably . In general, you can find your profile path by going to opera://about/.
  4. Set "blacklist" to false instead of true, and set "blacklist_state" to 0.
  5. Save the file. If something goes wrong, restore your backup.
]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/162138https://forums.opera.com/post/162138Sat, 05 Jan 2019 05:05:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How can I re-enable a blacklisted extension? on Sat, 05 Jan 2019 04:43:05 GMT]]>Update: I seem to have found a way to re-enable blacklisted extensions, though I'd guess that eventually it'll automatically get disabled again and I'll have to repeat the process.

Close Opera and go to your user folder (On windows: "C:\Users[username]\AppData\Roaming"), then Opera Software, Opera Stable, and open "Preferences" in a text editor that has a find feature. Look for your extension's ID (for Tampermonkey, it's "dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo"), and look for the entries ("blacklist":true,"blacklist_state":1) next to it. Change "true" to "false", and "1" to "0". Save the file and launch Opera - the extension should be enabled now.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/162127https://forums.opera.com/post/162127Sat, 05 Jan 2019 04:43:05 GMT