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Fellow Opera lovers,
what is the state of play in Youtube frustrating us with their useless ads.
Emptying caches and resetting did work for some time, but now even that fails. The ads used to skip themselves from the first frame to the last. Reloading the url now results in another ad being loaded.
I notice a difference in behaviour depending on the OS version. On OS 11.17 access blockage is total. On 14.x some YT videos play fine without ads.
Thanks for an update.
Thanks for updating the post.
I keep trying to understand the situation. I use Opera on two different machines, with coordinated settings.
Both machines are Apple Macs.
One machine has OS 11.7 and the YT blocking on this one is 100%, I cannot play a single YT video.
The other machine runs OS 14.0 and on this one the ads are not skipped, but run as 'dark blanks', for the duration of the add, a black screen appears with just the first and last frame of the ad being shown, without sound.
As before, your assistance is greatly appreciated.
The issue resides with the settings of themes and backgrounds. I use the classic theme and all backgrounds are disabled. What I would need is an option on the panel seen in the screengrab below, that allows for the color to be white or a neutral light grey. There is in the current version no option to choose white or something neutral. The settings of this pannel seem to override other graphics settings even if one chooses to not use themes nor backgrounds.
Thank you for your suggestion.
Yes, I did just that - classic without wallpaper, but there is still this marking colour, everywhere in the frames of windows, highlights of text, etc. There is an option to choose other equally ugly colours. I want, as before, plain white or light grey, no details.
Don't judge me too harshly, but I really want to go back to a white sheet of A4 paper and place it carefully in my typewriter...
Dear fellow opera lovers,
for some reason that I cannot understand, my Opera version (119.0.5497.38) has decided to make me use a completely horrible colour scheme, where various graphic elements, like buttons, text highlights, frames are now in some sort of 70's disco green.
This occured after updating to Mac OS Sequoia 15.5 and importing older settings and bookmarks.
I do not wnat to use background themes and wish to have everything in white or light grey with zero imagery, zero photos, no colours, nothing.
I had this before the upgrade, so I believe it is possible.
I tried switching gallery themes on and off again, but this does not work.
Please help me be plain boring again. Thanks for all advice
Herman
Thanks for updating the post.
I keep trying to understand the situation. I use Opera on two different machines, with coordinated settings.
Both machines are Apple Macs.
One machine has OS 11.7 and the YT blocking on this one is 100%, I cannot play a single YT video.
The other machine runs OS 14.0 and on this one the ads are not skipped, but run as 'dark blanks', for the duration of the add, a black screen appears with just the first and last frame of the ad being shown, without sound.
Fellow Opera lovers,
what is the state of play in Youtube frustrating us with their useless ads.
Emptying caches and resetting did work for some time, but now even that fails. The ads used to skip themselves from the first frame to the last. Reloading the url now results in another ad being loaded.
I notice a difference in behaviour depending on the OS version. On OS 11.17 access blockage is total. On 14.x some YT videos play fine without ads.
Thanks for an update.