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_Zap_ December 17, 2012 16:27

Opera whitelisting not working

<< To exempt a site from blocking, right-click somewhere on the site, click "Edit Site Preferences...", go to the "Content" tab and uncheck "Enable content blocking". >>
Doesn't work for me. Used to, but not anymore. I noticed it on youtube when ads don't get served. Not that I'm complaining, but the feature seems nonfunctional.
Opera 12.11
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    Alexei December 17, 2012 16:31
    Hi _Zap_,

    The way Ghostery's blocking works in Opera is Ghostery asks Opera's content filter to block a certain set of patterns.

    At the moment, site whitelisting is entirely outside of Ghostery's control, managed via Opera's content blocker exceptions.

    Could you explain your issue in more detail (perhaps step-by-step) please?
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  • _Zap_ December 17, 2012 16:52
    I've not tested it on other sites but youtube yet, but ghostery blocks the video ads on the beginning of a given video when it is enabled like it is supposed to do. But it also keeps blocking them when I uncheck ->site preferences->content tab->enable content blocking. It used to stop blocking with that unchecked up until I updated ghostery a while ago. If I disable ghostery using opera extension control or hit the "pause blocking" button the ads are displayed on refresh.
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    _Zap_ February 18, 2013 16:13
    Checking back here.
    Has anything happened regarding this problem yet? I understand it's probably not a major concern, but its still not working as supposed to.

    I have checked and exempting content blocking works like it is supposed to on other websites but youtube. It's not just the ads displayed in the video but the banners on the page as well.
    If its something you have no control over thats fine, but this seems odd nontheless. Maybe the blocked content gets served from another server and gets blocked because only youtube.com is allowed by Opera and not the origin of the content?
    The page seems to load elements from a bunch of different sites, but I imagine other sites employ similar methods and they work fine.

    Still relevant in Opera 12.14 and Ghostery 0.9.8 which is the update the problem started appearing in for the first time.

    Could another Opera user please be so kind and quickly check if you are able to manually exempt youtube using the method described above?
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