Some days it failed to block ads, sometimes it would load the ad and skip it in a split-second, sometimes I didn't get ads at all. While ad-blocking in GX failed completely, the tests with regular Opera browser were a bit weirder. You may have noticed that I mentioned Opera GX so far. But this seemed completely random, one day it would work, the next day it didn't. I also noticed that if I kept watching videos for a while, I wouldn't get the ads until I exited the browser and came back. This made me wonder whether it depends on the channel that has uploaded the video, because the ones without ads were from specific channels, and these were mostly big brand channels who were probably in it for the marketing, and not the monetization part. When I kept switching through videos in a large playlist, nearly every single video had an ad, but some didn't.

Opera GX doesn't seem to block 9 out of 10 ads. It's also noticeably faster than the Opera browser combined with various ad blocking extensions.īy blocking ads, you also block the source of many tracking cookies.So I stuck to the default lists and used the browser primarily to watch videos. This all happens 'under the hood', so all you'll see is how much faster webpages load.Īccording to our tests, Opera loads content-rich pages up to 90% faster with ad blocking enabled. Our Ad blocker 'catches' ads as early as possible, right in the engine, when you first request a webpage. You can easily unblock ads on any website, if you want. No installation and setup required, just enable ad blocking in the browser settings.

Opera's Ad blocker is built right into the browser.

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