<![CDATA[Opera Ad Blocker vs YouTube]]>The new version of Opera promotes a new ad blocker — it says ‘no ads in videos.’
The paradox is that the old ad blocker used to work on YouTube and ads were hardly shown at all. But with the new version of Opera and the new ad blocker, no video even starts playing, and you have to disable the ad blocker to make YouTube usable.

I don’t understand this step backwards. And on top of that, it’s being promoted as a new feature.

Or am I doing something wrong somewhere?

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]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/88779/opera-ad-blocker-vs-youtubeRSS for NodeThu, 28 May 2026 09:37:37 GMTMon, 25 May 2026 19:53:50 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Ad Blocker vs YouTube on Wed, 27 May 2026 00:43:54 GMT]]>Releasing the new adblock in Opera appears to have been a mistake.
Let's be honest we all use adblocks mostly for Youtube.
After updating Opera, I briefly turned on the new adblock, even though I already had uBlock Origin.
The result is "an error occurred please try again later" error. It goes away after 2 or 3 refreshes, but still annoying.
What do?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/403531https://forums.opera.com/post/403531Wed, 27 May 2026 00:43:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Ad Blocker vs YouTube on Mon, 25 May 2026 23:03:27 GMT]]>@martinkukel It's been happening for about a year or more, since YouTube started blocking ad-blockers.

Usually it's fixed after the ad-blocker is updated, so you probably just need to wait.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/403491https://forums.opera.com/post/403491Mon, 25 May 2026 23:03:27 GMT