The adblocker is not working topic (Opera for Desktops)

[kyeq]

kyeq last edited by

Thats enabled. Should I just uninstall and reinstall? Will that even work?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator @kyeq last edited by

@kyeq Only YouTube and Crunchyroll are having issues with ads? Any other site where the adblocker doesn't work?

[kyeq]

kyeq last edited by

No, its all sites. Those are just the 2 I mainly use.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator @kyeq last edited by

@kyeq Any examples of YouTube videos with those ads? I've tried a few ones and couldn't see any ads.

[kyeq]

kyeq last edited by

Everything is enabled. Maybe there's an outside application affecting it?

[kyeq]

kyeq last edited by

Yeah, every youtube video looks like this when its enabled

[YESTIKANLY]

YESTIKANLY last edited by

I have same problem. It began after the youtube's new update.

[kyeq]

kyeq last edited by

Yeah, Was the crunchyroll thing recent for you? It just started happening on new episodes.

[YESTIKANLY]

YESTIKANLY last edited by

I experienced same problem in other websites to. I am not using crunchyroll but i tried now for you and it works stable, i didn't see any problem.

[kyeq]

kyeq last edited by

Thats weird, all the episodes display ads.

[vr2000]

vr2000 last edited by

Hi, I have the same problem. Been using Opera for years, the built in adblock always worked perfectly. Now each YouTube video has an add at the start of the video.
All exceptions have been removed. I don't know if I should re-install.
Other websites seem to be okay.

[vr2000]

vr2000 last edited by

Looks like Google outsmarted AddBlock and Opera in this round.
Even Add-block in Edge doesn't work.
I suppose Opera will address this in the next update

[YESTIKANLY]

YESTIKANLY @vr2000 last edited by

@vr2000 I agree with you. They will fix in next update. I hope.

[kyeq]

kyeq last edited by

Oh it looks like it blocks the background ads but not the video ads. Weird.

[kyeq]

kyeq last edited by

@YESTIKANLY I did the reinstall, didn't seem to do anything. It was a specific button, not manually though.

[kyeq]

kyeq last edited by kyeq

It blocks the static background ads but not the video ads.

[lolgetrekt-twitter]

lolgetrekt-twitter last edited by

When I go to a website or a game that is a website link, or whatever you call it, the ads are still there, even the video ad's are still there, like even when i just go to a website, it doesn't work. Like i still love the browser but this is a complaint. Not trying to be a Karen or anything but they should fix that problem, I'm also not trying to be rude to their team or staff members. I really hope that this is a problem that hey can fix, because this is a big problem in there browser, I will still use this browser because i like it more than Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc. Keep on doing the good work that you always have been doing.

[kyeq]

kyeq last edited by

Well, opera's main thing is the first browser that blocks ads. So you're not being a karen, really.

[mr-matt-eastwood]

mr-matt-eastwood last edited by

Hey folks, just to confirm, the YouTube issue happens to me as well. Since about last Thursday (I think), static ads have been appearing before roughly every other YT video I watch. They have a countdown timer in the bottom left corner.

About 50% of the time, when I click "Skip Ad", the browser tab will completely lock up. The tab's content freezes and stops responding to input. This is on Linux Mint 19.3.

I need to then copy the video's URL from the address bar, open it in a new tab and retry skipping the ad, which usually works.

I am always logged into YouTube and I don't have a Premium account.

I checked Opera's "Privacy protection" settings and there are 3 "recommended lists" to choose from, all of which I have enabled. There are two more under "Other lists", but they don't seem to relate to YouTube.

Has anybody been able to block these ads, and if so, how did you do it?

[levepedro]

levepedro last edited by

Same for me