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Enhanced content blocker
It would be great to have an option in the content blocker to block specific ad servers only for specific domains. Example: I want to block Adition.com-ads not globally, but only on (a) specific website(s). Or is this already possible?Adblock Plus has such filter attributes, but I don't want to use any third party extensions and hope for an content blocker enhancement.
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Personally I am an extremely aggressive ad blocker. Ads are very hard on my eyes and my brain. I like using the internet, but I think society (in my case, the US government, using tax money) should subsidize journalism for the public good. I figure, as long as I am politically active to promote that, I don't have to feel guilty about not supporting business models that get adopted because journalism is not subsidized. I'm not explaining that very well, I hope you see what I'm trying to say.
I don't have any experience with third party extensions in opera (although I have used them in firefox) -- I didn't know they exist, and I don't know how to! Can you talk about your reluctance? I wonder if I should get my head out of the sand.
I don't have any experience with third party extensions in opera (although I have used them in firefox) -- I didn't know they exist, and I don't know how to! Can you talk about your reluctance? I wonder if I should get my head out of the sand.
5. January 2012, 18:01:33 (edited)
Originally posted by aparente001:
Can you talk about your reluctance? I wonder if I should get my head out of the sand.
Well, most of the websites are free because of the ads. And if the majority of the readers is blocking all ads - even the unintrusive ones, like banners - the free websites getting in financial problems. The sideeffects of this are saving measures, which are leading to overstrained editors, bad researches and a general loss in quality. And in the end, the magazines have to close their doors or make a part of their contents for subscribers only. Another example: Even print magazines couldn't exist without ads. It's elemental.
So, as long as the ads are unintrusive and doesn't bother me with sound, layers or other methods, I accept them. AdBlock Plus has made a important step in the right direction with his "non-intrusive ads"-feature, which is enabled by default. I wish that a similiar feature will be available in Opera in the future - without the need of any third party extension.
I meant can you talk about your reluctance to use a third party extension? I know nothing about them.
Originally posted by aparente001:
I meant can you talk about your reluctance to use a third party extension? I know nothing about them.
I just don't like third party software in Opera. It's an all in one-solution for me. I rather propose new features instead of using a third party extension. Furthermore, a third party extension could introduce bugs or security holes/risks, especially if it is based on NPAPI (which is at least the case at Chrome and Firefox). You can read more about here:
http://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/bin/answer.py?hl=en&hlrm=de&answer=186213&rd=1