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    • sp3eder
      sp3eder last edited by

      I've disabled the Opera Adblocker completely and set up ABP the same way. That works fine now. This is clearly a bug in Opera Adblocker.

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      • realgbedulinks
        realgbedulinks last edited by

        Same here
        with the AdBlocker....i still keep seeing some ads displaying

        Why is that??

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        • moismyname
          moismyname last edited by

          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.

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          • budz
            budz @moismyname last edited by

            @moismyname I'm now in the same boat doing as you described it .For me only recently started doing it was fine before say a 2/3 weeks ago.

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            • DerAlchimist
              DerAlchimist @moismyname last edited by

              @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

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              • ghirahim
                ghirahim @moismyname last edited by leocg

                @moismyname Yes, it's even worse now. And it's the end of February already. No replies from Opera about one of their main features, no fixes, nothing. What a shame! Unbelievable.

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                • budz
                  budz @ghirahim last edited by

                  @ghirahim Hi i now use : u block origin and so far works flawless it is on extensions page just diable opera ad blocker don' run both . Enjoy ad free again.

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                  • DerAlchimist
                    DerAlchimist @budz last edited by

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

                    @ghirahim Hi i now use : u block origin and so far works flawless it is on extensions page just diable opera ad blocker don' run both . Enjoy ad free again.

                    Done that, working perfectly now. Thanks for the hint 😉

                    Also ublock origin can show all blocked data, I am using it not to extract the yt specific ads so I can add them to my PiHole and kill the ads for all devices

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                    • ghirahim
                      ghirahim @budz last edited by

                      @budz I can use something else too, we all can, but that's not the solution. What is worrying is that they just don't care. "Our built-in ad blocker doesn't work? Who cares!"

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                      • fsvborovichi
                        fsvborovichi last edited by

                        In version 75.0.3969.93, ads on Youtube are no longer blocked in the browser. Please fix

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                        • friendshipfeed
                          friendshipfeed last edited by

                          I do not understand; I know Opera is a web browser with an ad-block turned on, and promises that can block even the best ads including YouTube, but for a reason this happens and even on the mobile version this thing happen. Has Opera started having problems on adblocking and why there is still a YouTube ad? Is there something wrong on its adblock?

                          Here is the evidence:
                          Screen Shot 2021-03-27 at 11.42.46 PM.png

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                          • vhulmndur
                            vhulmndur last edited by

                            My operas addblock suddenly stopped working. I wasnt touching the settings too it just wooped itself out of existence and my settings are as they are. And yet YouTube started giving actual full on adds and that makes me hurt on a personal and physical level.

                            As for what i discovered is, is that adblock works fine when im not signed in to YouTube . But when i am signed in it just stops, did anyone else have this problem? If so, how to get rid of it? i just want to watch videos ad-less

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                            • leocg
                              leocg Moderator Volunteer @vhulmndur last edited by

                              @vhulmndur Is exceptions list empty?

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                              • vhulmndur
                                vhulmndur @leocg last edited by leocg

                                @leocg sorry for the late reply, i was asleep because timezones. There is only duckduckgo.com there, nothing else

                                --For Other People That Had Ad Problems , I Fixed It With --
                                https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/adblock-plus/ <---- this addon

                                even though its fixed, its weird that happened. the whole log-in-get-ad thingy

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                                • xDMK
                                  xDMK last edited by

                                  Blocking ads on YouTube does not work.

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                                  • KirkHampton
                                    KirkHampton last edited by

                                    Its coming from a script from google, but using FF, I was able to block the youtube ads. Now its just completely failed full ads going on. Im not happy about this. Not to mention how hard it was to even make this post.

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                                    • KirkHampton
                                      KirkHampton @xDMK last edited by

                                      @xdmk Opera was so lovely not its gone, make me make it lovely again?

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                                      • KirkHampton
                                        KirkHampton @vhulmndur last edited by

                                        @vhulmndur Im not having more addons be in peace friend.

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                                        • xDMK
                                          xDMK @KirkHampton last edited by

                                          @kirkhampton what?

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                                          • AlexVVV
                                            AlexVVV last edited by

                                            Hello! I tried 3 different adblocks but non of them seems to work for YouTube ads for the last few days. Works just fine for other sites.

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