Is there a chance that the built-in adblocker will be enhanced?

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Darkusnoid last edited by

When comparing Opera's built-in blocker to Vivaldi's and Brave's. It is the weakest of the 3 with Brave being the strongest. Both on desktop and mobile.

I believe for mobile it should be enhanced since it fails to block pop-ups with explicit images and web redirects to malicious content, mostly 'cash prizes' or crypto stuff. Like that perhaps Opera might have an edge on the mobile market?

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @Darkusnoid last edited by

@darkusnoid Enhanced with what? Pop-ups are blocked by the pop-up blocker that should also block redirects.

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Darkusnoid @leocg last edited by

@leocg Sorri if I wasn't clear. But on some news websites pop-ups arent blocked:

https://lexpress.mu
https://defimedia.info

Google trackers are not blocked when you use gmail etc, but external adblockers do.

You also have this website where redirects and questionable ads are also present:

movies2watch.tv

On desktop I can bypass it with an external adblocker but on mobile well...

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @Darkusnoid last edited by

@darkusnoid Didn't get any pop-up on those two sites.

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @Darkusnoid last edited by

@darkusnoid Opera GX mobile doesn't seem to have a tracking blocker.

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @Darkusnoid last edited by

@darkusnoid On the last site, there are some banners with ads.

Don't know if they are easily recognizable as ads.

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @Darkusnoid last edited by

@darkusnoid Anyway, adblocker is not supposed to block pop-ups or redirects.

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Darkusnoid @leocg last edited by

@leocg Oh, maybe it could be improved in that regard?

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@leocg you got redirects with the last website?

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @Darkusnoid last edited by

@darkusnoid Nope, but I didn't check that much and such things are kinda expected on sites like that.

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @Darkusnoid last edited by

@darkusnoid Pop-up blocker is a separated tool.