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'Users are demanding ad blockers because of the better browsing experience it offers,' says Nuno Sitima, SVP Mobile Browsers, Opera.

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To recall, Opera had last month launched its native ad-blocker on Opera Mini for Android and Opera for computers.

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Instead, I just use FF with its adblock.Opera on Thursday announced its ad-blocking tool is now available on all mobile platforms, with the addition to Opera Mini for iOS and Windows Phone, and Opera for Android. I'd really like a little program that would allow me to shoot them down. It disrupts my reading experience - and who can live with that? - and if my mouse drifts anywhere near, a popup jumps to the fore and covers up the text altogether. A small revenge, I know, but it's the best I've been able to come up with.īut - what I detest, despise, and abhor most of all is Google - for cramming down our throats - all that double-underlined blue text. I will hate the product that ruined the page for me and avoid buying something from them or visiting their website. If I can't scroll the offender out of view, I'll move on. Trying to read and understand something while my peripheral vision is being attacked is just too challenging for me. What I can't tolerate are the ones that jump up and down and all around.

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I wonder if coming up in top features means it will get some attention from developers.ĭo you actively use ad blocking in one form or another? What is your experience and opinion? Related Posts It does work nicely in many cases, but graphical setup is lacking and there were no noticeable progress to this feature in a long time. If not – your ads will likely get seen.įrom usefulness viewpoint content blocker is unbalanced. If your advertisement tortured user to jump through those extra hoops – suck it up.

Overallįor missing-my-revenue side Opera content blocker is nice compromise – it blocks specifically what user requests it to. It can be rather annoying to re-create them if you use several computers. Opera doesn’t go that far and you are mostly stuck with your own rules. Some scripts have inline checks if main file was loaded properly and if you block it – endless nags as result.Īd blockers commonly rely on shared and/or downloadable lists of stuff to block. It often catches wrong elements in such cases.Įngine works nicely for scripts packed in files, but because of URL-based nature is completely useless against inline scripts. Graphical selection has a lot of trouble with complex constructs like dynamic popups. For example if you want to completely block JavaScript from some site you can create custom rule like:Ĭontent blocker is on for all pages by default, but can be disabled for specific sites in Right click > Edit Site Preferences… > Content > Enable content blocking Downsides

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Graphical selection deals with images and flash, but manual edit and wildcard support allows to filter out any content. List of things to block can also be edited manually in Preferences (Alt+P) > Advanced > Content > Blocked Content… Holding Shift when clicking adds specific file to the list, instead of rough pattern. Graphical elements you click will be crossed out and added to block list. Right-click somewhere on empty space on page and select Block Content… in context menu. Filtering is based on URLs with wildcard support and allows as precise or as imprecise matches as you need.Ĭontent to block can be chosen right in browser window, or set up manually in settings. What it doesĬontent blocker is native feature that excludes content, chosen by user, from web-pages opened in browser. It wasn’t actively promoted in the past, but 10.60 release has it listed among hand-picked top features. Opera is only major browser (as far as I remember) that boldly included content blocker as native feature. Truthfully bliss or evil – ad blockers are here to stay (unless advertisers and publishers learn to not use atrocious advertisement techniques). There are plenty of people that feel strongly towards either side of dispute and not shy to tell about it.

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