FIX: YouTube "An error occurred" on Opera / OperaGX
Getting the black screen "An error occurred. Please try again later" on
YouTube? No VPN? This fixed it for me.
The cause: my ad blocker (uBlock Origin) was out of date and Opera's store
wouldn't update it. Installing the latest version manually fixed it.
Steps:
- Go to: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases
- Under "Assets", download the file ending in .chromium.zip
- Unzip it to a folder you won't delete (e.g. Documents)
- Open opera://extensions and remove your old uBlock
- Turn on "Developer mode" (top right) > "Load unpacked" > pick the unzipped folder
- Restart Opera and test YouTube
Note: only download from github.com/gorhill/uBlock (the real source).
Manual installs don't auto-update, so redo this every so often.
Hope it helps.