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    • lekiro
      lekiro @leocg last edited by

      @leocg 😞

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      • A Former User
        A Former User @Guest last edited by

        @Near564 i have the same problem

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        • A Former User
          A Former User @leocg last edited by

          @leocg some extensions like adblock plus are functional on youtube, why don't you take inspiration from its source code and fix the opera extension?

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          • leocg
            leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

            @ThiagoJGamer I'm an user, I can't fix anything. Also, an adblocker being functional or not may depend a lot of things, mainly the lists they use.

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            • duendemago
              duendemago @LizbetJ last edited by

              @LizbetJ TBH I installed Opera GX just a few days ago (i tried the beta so I decided to wait for a future release). I'm so happy with all the UIX, features, integrations. Common! I could even import all Firefox data no problem, addons via Google Chrome special addon...etc...All this to say that when I saw the blank screen (for me it is the "normal way to operate" because of my date of installation) I said: OMG! This is incredible! Finally, an AdBlocker that works!!! Firefox ad blocker super sucks and Opera GX is so good that almost every website I go gives me a "please turn off your Adblocker pleaseeee" pop up, which with Firefox never happened (that proofs my point).

              So I feel your pain if you had a different functionality before, but common! The ads are being blocked right? If you press continue you auto skip the annoying ads! Youtube is not happy at all!! XD

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              • A Former User
                A Former User last edited by

                Well its worse now. The white screen appears instead of ads and if I don't skip it within a few seconds i get playback error. I have to reload the page and skip the ad otherwise error again. Please fix the AdBlock to work on YouTube again. It worked flawlessly before. Now its becoming a pain.

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                • duendemago
                  duendemago last edited by

                  I'm having the same issue. Maybe there was an update from Youtube side. What I do is that I turn off Ad Blocker at the beginning of the video and once the video ys playing, I turn it off. Is annoying but is the only workarround for me so far 😞

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                  • Thrashinuva
                    Thrashinuva last edited by

                    I've got banner ads on youtube now. Really thinking about changing things up. Really like Opera so I hope I don't have to switch browsers.

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User last edited by

                      I have the same problem. Then last week it just started playing some ads and now there is not even a skip button.

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                      • thisretrad
                        thisretrad last edited by

                        I had the same problem so i restarted my settings. But i sometimes get error message on videos, which disapears after a few seconds. (sorry for my language. Im not so good at english)

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                        • thisretrad
                          thisretrad last edited by

                          and i've got white screen Adnotacja 2020-09-03 155630.png

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                          • Inressa
                            Inressa last edited by

                            I have a similar issue to all the adblock issue threads that are being posted, but for my YouTube instead of displaying a white screen of some sort with a "Skip Ad" button, it says that an error occurs with playing the ad itself. Here is the image. It shows on the timeline the duration of the ad but it skips past it after 5 or so seconds. Sometimes it shows two different playback ID's, but every time it skips past them and then plays the video. I doubt there are any fixes for it at the moment, but I hope this might help with fixing the issue.

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                            • duendemago
                              duendemago last edited by

                              i found the solution, it is called patience...let me explain: at the beginning of any video you will see the "An error ocurred bla bla bla" screen. So you just have to wait some seconds doing nothing but waiting and the video will resume immediatly. It is no more than 5 seconds acording to my brain.

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                              • Daffy
                                Daffy @duendemago last edited by

                                @duendemago i second this comment. just wait for 5 sec when it displays the error and viola the video starts playing. i thought lot of people would have figured it out while trying to read comments on youtube or looking at the error screen. nevertheless it still is blocking ads

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                                • harshraisaxena
                                  harshraisaxena last edited by

                                  use adblock plus in opera addons instead of opera inbuilt adblocker

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                                  • harshraisaxena
                                    harshraisaxena last edited by

                                    use both opera inbuilt adblocker and ad block plus

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                                    • A Former User
                                      A Former User @Guest last edited by

                                      @near564 I got exactly the same thing, but I think, every ad-blocker does that

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                                      • s3nd41
                                        s3nd41 last edited by

                                        So when is the Opera built-in adblocker going to be fixed so this stops happening?

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                                        • DenyAnimations
                                          DenyAnimations @leocg last edited by

                                          @leocg well i have something worst adblocker on, but is show add anyway, it happened today
                                          like here...

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                                          • itzwormz
                                            itzwormz last edited by

                                            Hello. My youtube recently just not working if I use adblock. Every time I click on video it tells me that I am offline until I reload the page. Also, even with turned on adblock adds are still playing. Opera Снимок_2021-05-13_061824_www.youtube.com.png

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