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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.