Google Search ads are not blocked

[shintoplasm01]

shintoplasm01 last edited by

Hello. I've noticed that ads in Google Search results are not blocked in my Opera for Android, even though the adblocker is on and appears to function well elsewhere. Is this a bug or a deliberate internal whitelisting? No websites are whitelisted in the adblocker settings.

Details:

• Android version: 11
• Phone: Google Pixel 3a
• Opera version: 61.2.3076.56749
• URL: https://www.google.co.uk/m?q=buy+tyres&client=ms-opera-mobile&channel=new&espv=1
• Adblocker enabled
• Data savings disabled
• Steps to reproduce: Set Google as your search engine and search for 'buy tyres' (or any other obvious search terms looking to purchase something).
• Expected behaviour: No Goole Search ads should be shown.
• Actual behaviour: All Google Search ads are shown, both at the top and at the bottom of the page. Interestingly, no Bing ads are shown when searching for the same terms.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator @shintoplasm01 last edited by

@shintoplasm01 In Opera for desktops, the adblocker has a default list of exceptions. I believe the same happens on Opera for Android.

[shintoplasm01]

shintoplasm01 @leocg last edited by

@leocg I've double-checked and nothing is whitelisted in my adblocker settings on Android. Also, Bing ads don't show up for the same search query so this seems like a Google-specific thing. Or are you suggesting a hardcoded whitelist that isn't user-configurable?

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leocg Moderator @shintoplasm01 last edited by

@shintoplasm01 Have you disabled Acceptable Ads?

Anyway, I guess that maybe the default exceptions list may not be visible in Opera for Android.

[shintoplasm01]

shintoplasm01 @leocg last edited by

@leocg Acceptable Ads are disabled.

Maybe someone from the Opera devs could confirm whether Google is whitelisted internally?

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leocg Moderator @shintoplasm01 last edited by

@shintoplasm01 In Opera for Desktops, Google is on the exception list by default.

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friendshipfeed @leocg last edited by

Oh yeah, there is a youtube ad even though there is adblocker on, and i dunno why. They are annoying is it?

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ney31337 @shintoplasm01 last edited by

@shintoplasm01
you're right, opera deliberately contributes to the invasion of your privacy favoring the biggest privacy invader on the planet, google, if you remove google, facebook, yandex and others from your whitelist opera will add them again after some time, in my view this is a crime, if I had the time I would fight with the opera in court but I already have too many problems to solve, I preferred to code my own extension to block these and other privacy invasions of the opera and its crime partners