The adblocker is not working topic (Opera for Desktops)

[A Former User]

A Former User 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

[kyeq]

kyeq last edited by

Let's all hope that opera fixes this in the next update.

[vr2000]

vr2000 @Guest last edited by

@mr-matt-eastwood I just noticed that the 'save' feature does not work anymore, e.g. watch later or saving to a playlist.
Looks like Google has declared war on us freeloaders
To circumvent this, I just save using my phone.

[rychveldir]

rychveldir last edited by

Same issue with Youtube ads here, started 1-2 days ago. Hoping for a fix soon. Chrome + ABP does not have the issue, I'm praying i don't have to switch browsers now.

[hion]

hion last edited by

Introduction
So recently (past week or so) Opera's ad block hasn't been working as well as it used to (or maybe these are intentional updates?? idk) and some ads are not blocked. However, the biggest consistant bug that I keep noticing is that it would semi/kinda block Youtube ads (its weird).

The Bug
The native Opera ad block used to be able to block ads on youtube (so basiaclly I would never watch any ads on any youtube videos). However, recently, there seems to be a glitch in the ad block (unless this is intentional). Everytime I watch a youtube video, the start just shows a white screen where the ad would be playing and I would be able to click "skip" to skip the white screen (ad). It is kinda weird, its like instead of blocking the ad completely it just replaces it with a white screen and allows you to skip the white screen. It happens to basically every single video, so its consitantly everytime. It never used to do this before, so I'm not sure what the problem is.

Attempts to fix
I've already updated Opera to the newest Vesrion and reactivated the ad block and tested it, and it still happens. So for now, I am going to stop using Opera native Ad-block and just use ublock origin and Opera's tracker blocker.

Conclussion
To be honest, I kinda already knew about ublock origin and used it a few times on other browsers, and found that it is a extremely well made. I've notice that ublock origin blocks more ads than other blockers including Operas, and even bypasses those sites that detect ad blockers. But to clarify, ublock isn't soley a "ad-blocker" per say, rather, a wide-spectrum content blocker with cpu effieceny as its primary feature ( which so happens to also block ads ). So in a way, ad blocking is just a subset of ublock origin. Anyways, I was already tempted to move to ublock origin a awhile ago, but was to lazy to do so. This bug kinda pushed me to finally switch, and just wanted to report this odd bug (unless it was intentional lol).

Anyways, thanks for reading, and have a good day.

[kyeq]

kyeq last edited by

Ugh its so weird, it blocks the ad bars but doesn't block the video ads, I don't get it.

[kyeq]

kyeq last edited by

Ok so I think that some of these Adblocker problems come from outside software interfering with the opera browser.

[rychveldir]

rychveldir @hion last edited by

@hion Thanks for the Tip, ublock origin works like a charm!

[kyeq]

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[hagfird]

hagfird @hion last edited by

@hion Yeah, you're right. I've had the same issue with Opera's ad block, Youtube was showing ads with a white screen in the background. But, when I tried with Ublock Origin, the bug hasn't appeared anymore since then. So, Ublock is amazing to block ads and works very well.

[hmmmm]

hmmmm last edited by

in the adblock settings there are reccomended lists, i turned off all other things except easylist, and i dont have the problem anymore

[yahashi]

yahashi last edited by

So i had this same issue with white screen skip ad . And i fixed it with this addon https://addons.opera.com/extensions/details/ublock . I hope it will help you as well as it helped me.

[ekrankartu]

ekrankartu last edited by

today my opera updated and my system ubuntu 20.04 opera 70.0.3728.71
youtube add blocker not working.

[EsposaCamaVoadora]

EsposaCamaVoadora last edited by

I have the same problem for a while now. I'm to lazy to download another adblocker, so I think I'll just wait until it's fixed or I get pissed enough to use something that words.

[alex2293]

alex2293 last edited by

The "advertisers" come up with a new option, how to deliver their "product" to the user. So it's sometimes inevitably to catch some ads on websites. But usually it's quite easy to watch youtube without annoying ads.

[sgrsk]

sgrsk last edited by

I am also having the same issue.

[MKSDiferenciado]

MKSDiferenciado last edited by

same problem with my opera, and have de same issue in the opera gx

[naheed]

naheed last edited by

It seems to be a common problem as I have seen several posts regarding it.

[tareqtareq]

tareqtareq last edited by

having same problem. every time there is a Blank Screen and shows "Skip AD" option in youtube.