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    • Saragoni
      Saragoni @Osckarmil last edited by

      @osckarmil it seems to be world wide, I'm from Bolivia - South America and yesterday morning at 10 am more or less (GMT-4) pre-rolls ads started playing on my Opera, I thought I got the ad blocker disabled by mistake, but no, it was on, hopefully Opera people will patch this since I loved Opera because of this feature.

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        • horacio64
          horacio64 last edited by

          i notice today after update that in youtube adblock function is not working. is enable but dont block the ads
          im the only one with this problem ?

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          • mohansg
            mohansg @horacio64 last edited by

            @horacio64
            I am here to report the same problem.
            After update of Win10, Opera Adblocker don't block YouTube Ads.

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            • maxichef
              maxichef @YESTIKANLY last edited by

              @yestikanly thats normal with the withe screen
              in youtube you can skip the ads immediately

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              • zomtronic
                zomtronic @maxichef last edited by

                @maxichef Nope, there is no white screen, Ads starts immediately and i'm unable to skip them until timeout

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                • kjemikael
                  kjemikael @zomtronic last edited by

                  @zomtronic Same thing here. I did have a white screen for some time, but now the ads just start and they are not possible to skip.

                  I deactivated the built in ad blocker and installed adblock+ for now. Shouldn't be necessary in Opera though...

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                  • horacio64
                    horacio64 @kjemikael last edited by

                    @kjemikael and that adblocker you installed works ?

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                    • Yury999
                      Yury999 last edited by

                      A few days ago Opera just stopped blocking a Youtube ads. Why?

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                      • kjemikael
                        kjemikael @horacio64 last edited by

                        @horacio64 For now, yes.

                        This one: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/adblock-plus/

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                        • DerAlchimist
                          DerAlchimist @DerAlchimist last edited by

                          @deralchimist said in The adblocker is not working topic (Opera for Desktops):

                          @moismyname said in Ad blocker fails to block YouTube preroll ads:

                          Has anyone noticed that this just got worse? I was getting these blank screens with the "skip ad" button, but only ever at the beginning of videos. Now I'm getting them in the middle of videos as well. Feels like Opera are trying to slowly ease us into discontinuing the youtube ad block feature.

                          Same problem here. I experienced the mid-roll interruption since the beginning of the week. Using Opera Stable and GX on 2 different computers. Already did a full reset and removed all addons.
                          This helped a bit, I can watch most of the time without the mid-roll interrupt, it mostly comes back if I start jumping inside the video...super annoying if you see the "Add in x seconds" appear after that.

                          Also tried blocking everything with a pi-hole, additional adblocker etc, nothing seems to work right now

                          Referring to my post from february:

                          Even opera got some few updates, the adblock still doesn't work properly (especially on youtube and other google-ad websites).
                          Still using ublock which works like a charm. Thanks to my piHole I know that most of the youtube ads are not loaded as an ad than can be identified. It's masked as regular traffic directing to the video. Since ublock uses the same blocklists as opera (easylist + easylist germany) I really don't understand why it won't block the ads on its own (and yes, the piHole itself won't block youtube ads, I tried it, doesn't work or works just a couple of days).

                          Since not all ads were blocked with these two lists, I spend quite some time finding new lists and creating my own blocklists (partly in piHole to block stuff from my cellphone etc, partly in ublock). My next goal is to create ONE custom list (or one list of lists) out of these lists and implement it into opera. Maybe the blocklists of opera are just rubbish/faulty, if not, the feature itself is broken af. I am willing to share this "megalist" if it's working, but keep in mind it might only work for/inside germany

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                          • angelcarbajal
                            angelcarbajal last edited by

                            Does anyone know why Opera doesn't block YouTube ads if I already have them blocked?

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                            • cocteautwin
                              cocteautwin last edited by

                              Around 3 or 4 weeks ago i started having to endure ads on youtube before the majority of videos i watch. For many years up til then i never saw ads, why would it of changed?
                              A little while back i went from seeing no ads to ocassionally having the youtube screen go white, with the 'skip ads' box down at the right hand, bottom corner of the screen, but now it's full on.
                              I've always had the in-built Opera ad blocker enabled, and the popup blocker enabled.
                              Has youtube just managed to beat those particular adblockers?
                              I've tried the youtube adblockers from the Extentions page but none seem to work.

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                              • sgunhouse
                                sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @cocteautwin last edited by

                                @cocteautwin That's my guess, though I haven't seen them yet. Well, then again I'm on Developer and perhaps they're testing a correction already. (When I checked a few days ago I saw maybe half a second of the ad before it skipped itself.)

                                You'll see multiple threads on this topic already, for the Windows browser and for GX.

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                                • endoryoda
                                  endoryoda last edited by leocg

                                  Hey, so recently (like 3 days ago) my youtube adblocker stopped working (the official opera adblocker), does anyone know how I fix this?

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                                  • endoryoda
                                    endoryoda @endoryoda last edited by

                                    @endoryoda Also i keep getting the same ad, like i had it 100x already today

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                                    • drumball
                                      drumball last edited by leocg

                                      i have had problems with add block for a little while now where it slowly started to drop out. it started first on youtube when some smal video adds started popping up, but now it isnt working at all. pls help me if i have done something with it

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                                      • mideh
                                        mideh last edited by

                                        is it only me, that feels that the adblock on Opera app gets worse for every new update done on Opera Mobile App or Browser, at a point i totally forgot adblock even existed on thier apps

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                                        • leocg
                                          leocg Moderator Volunteer @mideh last edited by

                                          @mideh It still works fine here

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                                          • c9-zyra
                                            c9-zyra last edited by

                                            First of all, why AddBlock's not working anymore.
                                            Secundo, why all the posts about it are being deleted or some shit?? Like they don't like that we talk about it or something?

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