Opera is the First Major Web Browser to Offer Built-in Adblocking

As you might have noticed, we have been hearing increasing amounts of talk regarding Ad blockers and one of the most significant events in the news streams has been the endorsement of Edward Snowden for the idea.

Following up on the hype, Opera, one of the oldest and obscured web browsers around has started to offer its own ad-blocking services on its desktop browser, being the first major browser to do so.

The reason given for this is faster browsing speeds. The company notes that its browser is 45 percent faster than Chrome with the AdBlock Plus extension. It is expected to bring down page loading times by 90 percent. Then there’s obviously the privacy and tracking issue. In particular it points out those bloated webpages that trick the user into clicking the “fake download buttons”.

The adblocker is turned off by default, but auto-detects whether the ads are slowing down your browsing. It can be activated and deactivated by the flip switch in the address bar. It also shows you your statistics as well as benchmarking the load speeds with and without it.

Desktop browsing is clearly the most important market for adblocking services, which have grown by 41 percent over 2014-15, with 98 percent of the users on PC.

“…together with the native ad-blocking feature, we also provide a tool to help advertisers and users understand the problem of heavy ads. We believe this will accelerate the change that the ad industry needs to pursue.”

Opera itself can certainly benefit from services like this. While it has been credited with many innovations in the browser market, it currently lies in fifth position in desktop market share.


  • Well, why not just install adblocker (or some other similar plugin) in the browser that you are already using (chrome, firefox) and get the same effect/benefit?

  • UC Browser (both desktop & mobile) does that already, what’s new about this?, also UC is based on Chrome engine and comes pack with many features compared to many.

    • New opera is also powered by chromium project which is the base code for chrome browser. Besides UC has been already offering native ad blocking feature

  • UC Browser is already offering built in Ad blocking facility for a long time now. Stop being so called “expert” in every field

    • kia acha ha Adguard me ABP se ? ye kia Ad Block karne k sath Khana b Paka k Deta ha ?


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