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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. What about Vivaldi? by evolutionary · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  3. Re:How about by kheldan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Somehow that got posted to the wrong story.. not sure how that happened!

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