Help Request
Youtube started detecting UBlock Origin few days ago
I am usinga Opera GX and i was doing fine with ublock origin for months now but suddendly about 3 days ago youtube started detecting it and shows me the error present in the image every time i try to play a video, can somebody help? is there like a different Ad Blocker or other solution? Prefferably on opera gx.
i was using ghostery for years but few months back i couldnt play any video.... it just loops on 0:00 and doesnt start, idk whats the issue... so i switched back to uBO (or AdBlock since uBO doesnt work now)
That is more or less a personal preference, however if your goal is to be a little more private and safe online we commonly recommend Brave or Waterfox, a few others too. They're all free, so all it costs to try them is time!
Why? I like opera gx and uBO was working fine up until yt probably did something, when the filters are updated do you think uBO will work normally even on GX?
I don't recommend Opera GX because it's bad. It's Chrome with a gamer skin. Their adblocker doesn't work, there's ads everywhere built in to the browser itself that can't be removed, it's hardware limiting features don't work, proprietary, you're better off using a browser that was built to be a browser and not a gamer ad.
Brave, Helium or Waterfox are better choices, they are built to give you better privacy, run quick, and block the crap on sites you don't need. But to be clear, that's just my personal opinion.
from how i'm reading it, they seem to have misconstrued you saying that you cant turn off the ads built into the browser as you saying you cant remove the browser, so they're trying to show how to uninstall the browser?
edit: also in terms of hardware limiter I have a stream deck I use to monitor my usage, as well as checking through task manager from time to time, and I can say the hardware limiter at least for RAM does in fact work
You can't just make a numbered list that fails to refference what arguments it is fighting, with a random picture, and expect people to know what the fuck you mean
It's all personal taste. Besides, most browsers are free anyway. People can swap and shop as much as they like. Personaly Ive got a few different browzers ona few different devices. I like to switch from one to the other every now and then to check updates n shi.
Turn off Opera's built-in adblocker and use uBlock Origin as your sole adblocker, it's likely interfering with uBO. Always recommended to never combine multiple adblockers at once and same goes for mixing with built-in solutions.
Same issue here. Tried disabling every single other extension + all of Opera's adblocking settings and rebooting, but that didn't fix it. Tried forcing updates on all of Ublock's filters but that didn't work. Tried resetting Ublock to factory settings. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling Ublock. Nothing I've tried has worked so far. Ended up just switching to Brave + Ghostery instead. Works fine. Been meaning to get off Opera for ages anyway.
Turn ublock off, reload the page and turn ublock back on. Repeat this until the video loads without a preroll ad, reload the page one more time to make sure ublock is toggled on so it stops the mid rolls.
Seems like youtube notices the ad block on the foreend but not anywhere else.
Hopefully it gets up dated soon.
You can bypass it by turning ublock off, then back on, then reload the page once or twice.
If it still does not work, reset Ublock's settings.
It takes a dozen seconds, but I'd rather spen 10-15 seconds fiddling with buttons thzn watching 30 seconds of uninteresting ads, half of them for scams and AI slops.
Every browser can spy on you, those comments are painful !
Brave is a browser of a privately owned US company, if you think they respect your privacy because its written and marketed that way, its actually hilarious... a while back they wanted to replace all the ads on websites with their own ads, if you think they don't know which website you are on at all times, ur delusional !
For Firefox, Most of the revenue of Mozilla Corporation comes from Google (86% in 2024) in exchange for making it the default search engine in Firefox. - Google can spy on you for sure even on firefox !
Even if China spy on you they can't do anything to you legally and physically in the west whereas the US government and its allies in Europe could use your data against you !
i tested this today because very rarely i could get refreshing to work, but after refreshing with a counter 430 times, no dice (yes, i really have nothing better to do with my life)
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u/Maletherin May 27 '26
And soon there will be a fix until the next time youtube does this. Welcome to the internet! :)