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Opera Introduces Native Adblocking, 45% Faster Than Chrome With Adblock Plus (thestack.com)

Posted by timothy on from the that-escalated-quickly dept.

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.

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  1. Re:How about by danbob999 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    because it has many flaws, here are just a few I can think of:

    -can't list blocked elements
    -can't disable ad-blocking for a single web site
    -can't disable ad-blocking temporarily without restarting browser (or even PC)
    -need admin rights
    -doesn't allow complex patterns (regex), which makes the database huge
    -can't block ads located on the same server (host name) as the main site

  2. who cares by softnewsit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    who cares, it's still opera... and owned by chinese.... Vivaldi is better

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  3. Re:How about by jafiwam · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Host files also cause issues when the domain is pointing to 127.0.0.1 A request is made, but there probably isn't an http daemon waiting on the localhost, which in turn causes wait delays and IP stack issues. For those of us that have a local http, we have to deal with all these pointless requests, which will return 404s.

    Anyone pushing hostfiles to defeat adverts is a twat and doesn't know what they're talking about. Steve Gibson level twattery no less.

    You can change the IP to anything you want. It's text, edit it if you use a local HTTP deamon.

    But if you do that, you are probably also running local BIND, use that to insert authoritative zones to catch new subdomains, and speed up the process with NXDOMAIN

    HOSTS files with tens of thousands of entries (like mine) do not cause any noticeable delay. None. Something is wrong with your operating system if it chokes.

    The Twats are the advertisers. The whiner is you.