Opera browser blocked all three types of ads (in-video ads, sticky banners, and banners on the results page). After watching several videos and restarting the browser multiple times, I can confirm that the ad blocker works correctly. I did not toggle the block trackers setting. Time for part 2 of the test, all I enabled was the option to block ads. There's nothing unusual about this, this is how the world looks when you aren't using an ad-blocker, and that's what makes it annoying. The search results page had an ad banner too. A lot of YouTube videos started out with a video advertisement before getting to the actual content, while some had banner ads that stayed on top of the media. So, here are my observations from using the browser without the ad-blocker enabled. The first part of the test was to use Opera browser with its default settings. I reset the browser to make it work like a fresh install, and to get rid of all extensions and custom settings. Speaking of which, does the ad blocker work? There's only one way to find out. It's good to see that the problem has been addressed by Opera. That indicates there's something odd going on behind the scenes. Some Brave users had reported the ad blocking issue as well. 177 makes things even more interesting, it reads,ĭNA-93554 Find a fix for blocking ‘new’ YouTube ads That kind of explains why I got ads only on some videos, it was random. Interestingly, the post also confirms that the ad blocker was not properly blocking all ads. Opera 76 has fixed the YouTube ad blocking issue. As a matter of fact, it was the only thing highlighted in the article. The update announcement on the company's blog finally acknowledges the ad blocking issue was real. Opera has released a new version of its browser to the stable channel.
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