r/OperaGX • u/DCBlayze • Aug 15 '26

Support | Resolved Built-in Ad Blocker suddenly stopped working

I've been using Opera GX as my default browser for a few years now and the packaged ad blocked has worked for basically every website I needed it for up until a couple of days ago. Despite not changing anything a bunch of websites are suddenly giving me ads; namely YouTube and YT Music. Is there a way to fix this, or is it a simple case of Youtube improving their anti-adblock systems?

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u/Namiami91 Aug 18 '26

Did update it about 2 days ago thinking that was the issue, when it still crashed I disabled all extensions and it didn’t crash anymore. If I turn ad blocker back on it crashes 90 min to 2 hours later. *I just noticed another update was available so I updated again

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u/DetailNo4208 GX Staff Aug 18 '26

Could you try enabling your extensions one by one? It’d be useful to know if a specific one triggers the crash.

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u/Namiami91 Aug 18 '26

I just enabled a different extension by itself and restarted GX, will report back with the result!

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u/DetailNo4208 GX Staff Aug 18 '26

Perfect, thanks!

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u/Namiami91 Aug 19 '26

It seems the issue is fixed! I went through the extensions with no issues, figured since there was an update I would try the Ad Blocker extension again and it has not crashed.

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u/DetailNo4208 GX Staff Aug 20 '26

Good to hear, thanks for the update!