Opera’s browser has a built-in ad blocker that works better than extensions
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on March 10, 2016
at 9:09 am
Opera has updated its desktop browser for Windows and OS X with ad-blocking baked right in. The company believes its new feature helps speed up page loads by 40 percent on average and works better than third-party extensions. You can turn on ad-blocking in the Settings menu and list sites that you want to exclude there. When you browse the Web, a shield icon in Opera’s address bar turns blue and displays how many ads it avoided loading. You can also click the shield icon to find the Speed test option and compare load times for any site yourself. Krystian…
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