Why no ad blocker in Opera beta? (in Opera Mini beta it is)

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I suppose because of the different engines they are based on. Ad blocking will be in opera 37 but it will take 2 months until they promote it to stable, which indeed sucks

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Why there is not an ad blocker in Opera beta? In Opera Mini beta there is one.

Because it wasn't implemented yet.

Remember that Opera for Android and Opera Mini for Android are different products, so they don't necessarily share the same features and even if the case, they may not be implemented at a same time.

[jannn123]

jannn123 last edited by

Ah ok, I understand, thanks.
Hope it will be implemented soon.

[rejzor]

rejzor last edited by

So, integrated ad blocking is planned. Good. Just wanted to ask about it, but now I don't have to. Opera Turbo + adblocking will be great for mobile data plan.

[kapsi]

kapsi last edited by

They should make one Opera instead of 2.

[janb80]

janb80 last edited by

Yes, that is true!!
I can't decide, which one to use.
The opera has the forced zoom and working text wrapping, the mini has its adblock and the automatically hiding bottom bar.
Put the functions of both in one, and you'll get the best browser for android!!!

[ryuzaki-l13]

ryuzaki-l13 last edited by

I suppose because of the different engines they are based on. Ad blocking will be in opera 37 but it will take 2 months until they promote it to stable, which indeed sucks

any announcement saying that it will take 2 months to be implemented for android?

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

If you check the dates here ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/android/ you will see that upgrades to the next version are done about every 2 months

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

any announcement saying that it will take 2 months to be implemented for android?

Nope, there's nothing about adblocker on Opera for Android nor in which version it would be implemented.

On Mini, ads are blocked by the servers since all traffic goes through them.
For Opera for Android it would need to be implemented in the browser and be performed locally.

[operamilleson]

operamilleson last edited by admin

Hi,

Please check out the latest beta, we just launched ad blocking support in the latest beta. See:
https://forums.opera.com/topic/15349/opera-37-beta-with-ad-blocking-and-website-settings

for more details.

[custdemotest]

custdemotest last edited by

Feels great, yep.

[custdemotest]

custdemotest last edited by

Let's hope that Opera will not fail https://panopticlick.eff.org/ tests running Chrome 51 and above. Still I don't know how Chrome 52 stop ads on forum.softpedia.com site.

[cl007]

cl007 last edited by

so can you run turbo with ad-block? b/c typically (in other browsers) you can either have a data saver feature OR adblock, but not both running at the same time. The way I understand it is the opera turbo processes everything thorough their server, so I wonder how ad block is implemented? I also wonder how much more data is saved with having turbo on plus adblock, as opposed to just turbo. one of the reasons to block ads is to save data

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

so I wonder how ad block is implemented?

The job is done by the server if i understood correctly.