Gmail was working fine for me earlier today, but as of 10:30 AM or so today, I get this in both the Edge and Vivaldi (Chrome) browsers on Windows, though it’s still working fine on my Android phone.
Update: gmail also works fine in a “secure (anonymous) browser window”. Hmm…
Update 2: it’s working now after disabling the Adblock extension and logging in to my gmail account fresh. That also works in MS Edge. So, must have been an Adblock update, or else google got wise to them and took action!
Yeah, see my updates to the post from shortly after I posted. Almost deleted the post entirely, but decided that fixing the issue by disabling Adblock might be useful info for someone else.
If you’ve been using adblocker fine, then something much have changed. A few sites require it to be disabled to view their content (especially news sites). I’m in Vivaldi which has it built-in.
I don’t use Gmail but I got several spam emails from Gmail clients. By the look of the name of the senders it seemed they were hiding something. I don’t know if that is at the root of the problem but it could well be, Google working to clean up the mess.
Adblock can single out specific parts of a page that you might not want to block entirely: after clicking the Adblock extension icon on the Vivaldi address bar, you pick “Block element” (as seen below), and then move your mouse to the element you want to block (the elements are highlighted as you move), click on the element, and you can then preview the result of the block and create a rule to block that element from then on.
