<![CDATA[Adverts in Linux]]>Use Opera happily as my default in Windows, where it effectively abolishes the obnoxious ads that YouTube puts up, which mostly serve as an attempt to annoy people enough to get them to pay for premium YouTube. I won't.

Thinking about a Linux migration however, and running Opera on Linux for the first time today, I see the ads are instantly there, just as if I was on Chrome back in Windows.

Is there anything I can do about that?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/71184/adverts-in-linuxRSS for NodeThu, 15 Oct 2026 03:19:47 GMTMon, 15 Apr 2024 06:52:45 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Adverts in Linux on Wed, 17 Apr 2024 22:00:44 GMT]]>@sorenfeodor said in Adverts in Linux:

I do not see any adverts on youtube (nor generally for that matter). I have the ghostery extension enabled and that may help a bit, too; when I pause it on youtube I do get a (ignorable for me) pop-up.

Did you check your opera settings ("Easy setup") that "block ads" are enabled?

First, thanks for the reply. I did indeed do the setup correctly. I may have overlooked the possibility that the browser (maybe even the system) need to be restarted for all of it to take full effect. But the ads are being snuffed now.

Thanks again, and I apologize for not waiting a bit before posting.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/348231https://forums.opera.com/post/348231Wed, 17 Apr 2024 22:00:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Adverts in Linux on Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:12:42 GMT]]>I do not see any adverts on youtube (nor generally for that matter). I have the ghostery extension enabled and that may help a bit, too; when I pause it on youtube I do get a (ignorable for me) pop-up.

Did you check your opera settings ("Easy setup") that "block ads" are enabled?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/348063https://forums.opera.com/post/348063Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:12:42 GMT