After a cursory period researching ai technology, it didn't take me long to come to the conclusion that ai is invasive and dangerous so I feel Chromium platform browsers or any ai related software is simply dangerous.

As cookies should hopefully be outlawed soon enough, the move to integrate surveillance and analytics into the codebase and hardware are a threat to my personal information as well as users forced into a closed ecosystem, of which Opera One clearly is solely focused on.

As an internet standards component I decry the move to any software that depends on the ai system to be a security flaw plain and simply and already am looking into alternatives as any potential bonus to user interaction with the ai software might bring, is not returned in functionality or the high cost of system resource.

So good luck if you deprecate Opera, but I will not be using your ai software.

Not to mention that in order for youtube to be profitable, it does need ad income and if I still value the platform I feel more comfortable contributing in a small way to it's operation.

In this way I alleviate guilt from not paying for any of the programming.

I'm not sure, but if ad's are blocked, yt knows and the content creator get's no payment for ads they would have, had you watched them.

Everyone here seems to be missing that this app is borderline broken.

If I want it to block ad's it does a stellar job.

But guess what. I want the ads.

So it should be an easy matter to simply turn off the adblocker, in the the event that I might want to do that? Right?

But it is borderline impossible and took me, a computer engineer (I could work an it helpdesk) took well over 4 hours of solid effort to get it to STOP blocking ads!

Mad, right?

Why would I want to Not block the ads?

Well there's a few reasons.

Firstly, I'm painted into a corner by the YouTube algorithm into ever more specific and similar types of programming and frankly I don't need to digest vast amounts of information in rapid fore succession one after the other for the duration I'm watching videos?

Why? Because I'm not on a research binge or an overstimulated teenager in some rarely afforded free time.

I'm an old fart sitting around all day and I like to take my time.

I sit around getting annoyed about software that doesn't work properly like Opera and anything to do with ai.

So I turned the adverts back on and I watch almost all of them.

Why?

Because it is basically news. Seeing as I don't watch or read any news sources at all ever, advertisement keep me connected with the real word outside of retro gaming.

I also need to keep up to date with modern gaming and which products are being released. Also the film and tv industry and what packages are available.

Opera made it very difficult for me to gain access to these adverts, which are paid for with large sums of money as a 'loss leader' business investment. This could range from an infomercial to a lavish christmas advert for a major supermarket.

So you see. The purpose of adverts, in my case, is to keep abrest of current events and market and trends and break up the monotonous programming that youtube favours.

I just posted talking about how difficult it was to DISABLE as believe it or not, I desired to have the ads.

They break up programming which is often very short or repetitive and inform me of certain things I might be interested in and otherwise not been aware.

Let me tell you, it's not easy.

I looked into the settings and followed some of the instructions from burnout426.

But it is concerning for me that the settings were so hard to use and took hours.

The browser is blocking adverts behind a convoluted and confusing settings system.

So the settings are in a bad place and not nearly enough cookies are being blocked.

This post is a bit messed up now due to restrictions on my editing and deleting privileges which I don't see how my post is now your property..

How come I can't delete or edit my posts after just 30 minutes?

@Hattyfatner it's a shame the reply that was previously here was deleted as it did help to some extent.

I looked into the setting and followed some of of the instruction carefully but for some bizzarre reason, the post is deleted.

But it is a major concern for the software that it was almost impossible to do and took literally hours and hours.

Add to that that I'm a software engineer and it beggars belief anyone else could ever manage it.

The browser is essentially blocking adverts behind a convoluted mess of a settings system of menus that are extremely confusing and opaque.

But I have spent hours and hours studying it to find how to enable advertising and find the hundreds of cookies that every website seems able to give you whether you clicked anything or not.

So well done Opera, you've almost completely destroyed the codebase.

What will your next trick be...?

After a cursory period researching ai technology, it didn't take me long to come to the conclusion that ai is invasive and dangerous so I feel Chromium platform browsers or any ai related software is simply dangerous.

As cookies should hopefully be outlawed soon enough, the move to integrate surveillance and analytics into the codebase and hardware are a threat to my personal information as well as users forced into a closed ecosystem, of which Opera One clearly is solely focused on.

As an internet standards component I decry the move to any software that depends on the ai system to be a security flaw plain and simply and already am looking into alternatives as any potential bonus to user interaction with the ai software might bring, is not returned in functionality or the high cost of system resource.

So good luck if you deprecate Opera, but I will not be using your ai software.

Gives puce background color by default and extra small serif font makes it very difficult to read and extremely gross to look at.

To change it to normal font and white background, you must insert hacked css that communicates to a remote server and instantly infected my browser.

On the plus side, the infection did appear to be removed by removing the extention.

@newandimprovedgirly this is a problem with the Brighspace service program code that is not authenticating your browser.

This appears to be an issue with the Opera browser not being registered by Microsoft Corporation who (I think) manage registration and the encrypted protocol.

This problem has come back. I can't use Opera now because YT isn't working.

YT still thinks Opera is ad-blocking.

I wonder what the redacted comment said.

So I had to move over to Chrome for this reason.

Annoyingly, the problem is inconsistent. I'll have to come back to this thread when it breaks next.

Regarding your advice. I found it all borderline dangerous.