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Opera Introduces Native Adblocking, 45% Faster Than Chrome With Adblock Plus (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A new version of the Opera desktop web browser introduces fully-featured native adblocking which is able to load adblocked pages significantly faster than rivals running the Adblock Plus browser. The new feature includes whitelisting of domains and a benchmarker to test the difference between page load-times with and without ads. Krystian Kolondra, head of Opera desktop, indicates in his post that the company's hope is to encourage the 'simpler' and less intrusive advertising which has been promised, but does not yet seem to be evident.
How about comparing it to a good adblocker instead?
While Vivaldi browser is still in beta (on Linux anyway) I've found it amazingly fast. It can use Chrome plug in and combined with the uMatrix plugin (NoSlash on major steroids) I've found it amazing .Made by the guys who created Opera.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein
I have an even better idea, that bypasses the entire problem: Get rid of any Microsoft 'operating system' (using the term loosely here, since it's getting to be more and more like a 'botnet system' or 'advertising delivery system' than anything else) and install some flavor of Linux (or literally anything else you can get your hands on) instead. Then there won't be ads, 'telemetry' (read as: 'spyware') or any of this other bullshit. Don't really care what your difficulties with the alternatives are, either. Deal with it.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
The piggyness of ABP is mostly gone. The issue was it used a CSS file to block everything and that file had to be reloaded for every single page. Recent versions of Firefox now allow CSS files to be shared across pages so now ABP only has to load it once. I haven't seen any comparison benchmarks on newer Firefox versions. Anyone got any?