The Opera browser includes a built adblocker
Browsers Technologies / / December 19, 2019
In times of Opera browser often his youth managed to outdo competitors due to bold innovation, and therefore was so loved by the users. Today, developers were talking about this glorious tradition and first introduced a built-in browser adblocker.
Drinking adblocker nowadays quite ambiguous. Users understand that it is through advertising and there are all these wonderful sites, but ruthlessly cut it with special extensions. Developers know that blocking ads is one of the most popular features, but most of them will never incorporate it into their browsers.
Therefore, the decision to equip the built-in Opera blocker looks pretty bold. However, given the recent deal to sell the company's group of Chinese investors, it becomes it is clear that Opera is no longer so dependent on advertising revenue, so it is possible and experiment.
On the technical side of the implementation of ad-blocking features in Opera is somewhat different from what we are used to seeing in extensions such as AdBlock or uBlock. Firstly, in Opera it is built directly into the browser engine that allows you to cut the advertising at the time the page rendering, but not after. According to the developers, this gives a significant increase in display speed sites and not too loads the computer. Secondly, developers have built in extra blocker feature, which can be used test your download speed with enabled and disabled blocker to clearly assess its advantages.
Ad blocking is controlled by a special icon in the address bar of the browser. If you click on it, a pop-up window where you can enable or disable ads on this site, and view statistics on the ad blocker. Please note that third-party lists download and create your own filters to block advertising has not yet provided.
Currently, ad blocking function is tested and available only in a version for developers of the program. You can download it on this page.