Pretty sure Opera will see this as their chance to push their inbuilt ad blocker and won't put much energy into restoring the old api.
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RE: Will Opera be nixing certain adblockers like Google Chrome will be doing?Lounge
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RE: Will Opera be nixing certain adblockers like Google Chrome will be doing?Lounge
@skyrim2011 This is incorrect. The changes will be done to the webRequest API.
Apple has their own fork of Chromium for quite a while so they won't be effected. And yes Opera will be effected as well if they will use the latest Chromium version and don't maintain their own version of the webRequest API. -
RE: Will Opera be nixing certain adblockers like Google Chrome will be doing?Lounge
It is a Chromium change as Google changed the access to the webRequest API, which is used to block ads by add-ons before a page is loaded.
Is there an official statement from Opera regarding this?
Many are currently switching away from Chromium browsers because of this change.