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I have attempted to use Opera’s propitious built-in ad blocker a couple versions back.

I have also noticed ads getting through. These were typically the annoying ones users do not wish to see. It also likes (or ‘liked’ if it has been fixed) to break certain websites. The sites had not a single form of ads present yet 50 per cent of their content was getting blocked forcing me to white list sites constantly.

I had grown tired of it within a few days and switched back to uBlock. The only real advantage of the built-in ad blocker is perhaps a little more battery life on a portable machine. The couple more CPU cycles by uBlock do not make a difference on a modern PC while also providing its users with additional features.

@apleisacol, select Opera > About Opera, or go to opera:about, make a note of the path to your profile, close the Opera. Navigate to the profile folder, and open the Preferences file in your text editor, search for "excluded_schemes" (under "protocol_handler"), or "magnet":, and change "true" to "false: as follows "magnet": false, (if it does not exist, add it), save the changes, and close the file, relaunch the Opera, and see if this helps 😉

Slight notice: the default path to the profile should be as follows:

~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera

The ~/Library folder is hidden by default in the Finder. You can enable it as follows:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -boolean true; killall Finder.