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Re: Opera Browser adds integrated adblocker

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Post by icebraining »

hoodoof wrote: post #19

Why would I want to deprive sites of their ad revenue? If you use ad blocking, just be sure that you and no-one you are close to depends on advertising - directly or indirectly - to get their bills paid. So damn childish to have such a sense of self righteous indignation that people turn off ads but expect the Internet to be free.

It's only hypocritical if you block ads but complain that others block yours, or if you think there's some sort of moral duty to watch them.

Whatever money I make from ads - we don't host them, but we do buy them - I accept that it is contingent on people choosing to accept them. That doesn't produce a moral duty to do so myself, any more than selling cod means I'm morally obliged to eat it at home. If people stop buying cod, I'm not outraged, I just accept that my business model must change.

Re: Opera Browser adds integrated adblocker

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Post by INTPenis »

yjgyhj wrote: post #46

We are in the beginning of the end of the era of online advertising.

No, not a chance.

We are in an arms race between the people and the corporations.

As long as you can see content on a website, there will be corporations trying to monetize that fact. And as long as corporations have to operate within the borders of an open system there will be people trying to circumvent their methods.

Re: Opera Browser adds integrated adblocker

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Post by threatofrain »

hoodoof wrote: post #19

Why would I want to deprive sites of their ad revenue? If you use ad blocking, just be sure that you and no-one you are close to depends on advertising - directly or indirectly - to get their bills paid. So damn childish to have such a sense of self righteous indignation that people turn off ads but expect the Internet to be free.

I don't expect the web to be free. I have faith in a process in which generally free actors, within some guidelines, act within a generally free space, and I am eager to see the outcomes of such a struggle. In this case, I see a future where the internet is divided roughly in two -- content for those who can pay, and content for those who can't.

A "you get what you pay for" world is not necessarily evil, and exclusivity can protect quality.

Re: Opera Browser adds integrated adblocker

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Post by philipov »

INTPenis wrote: post #62
yjgyhj wrote: post #46

We are in the beginning of the end of the era of online advertising.

No, not a chance. We are in an arms race between the people and the corporations. As long as you can see content on a website, there will be corporations trying to monetize that fact. And as long as corporations have to operate within the borders of an open system there will be people trying to circumvent their methods.

An arms race like that will end with the richest corporations lobbying for an end to an open system. I'm sure we'll soon start seeing legislation attempting to criminalize ad-blocking.

Re: Opera Browser adds integrated adblocker

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Post by marklgr »

herbst wrote: post #44

As publisher, fuck you. As consumer, that was the original reason i used Opera years ago, the natively implemented blocklist was just amazingly fast, especially compared to the extension on the other platforms. Its a little sad that they changed so much that they have to reinvent the wheel now.

As a publisher, you should say fuck you to the ads networks that pay you to track your readers, not to the readers trying to protect themselves.

Re: Opera Browser adds integrated adblocker

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Post by herbst »

marklgr wrote: post #65
herbst wrote: post #44

As publisher, fuck you. As consumer, that was the original reason i used Opera years ago, the natively implemented blocklist was just amazingly fast, especially compared to the extension on the other platforms. Its a little sad that they changed so much that they have to reinvent the wheel now.

As a publisher, you should say fuck you to the ads networks that pay you to track your readers, not to the readers trying to protect themselves.

I dont. Its the decision of my readers if they want that. I dont care about adsense tracking at all, its not harming me, i am more afraid of other companies tracking which are not as secure and somehow privacy respecting as google.

Re: Opera Browser adds integrated adblocker

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Post by uberuser »

sccxy wrote: post #12

I use Opera daily. I really like its "Opera Turbo" feature. It compresses images for lower bandwith. Also uBlock Origin for ads and blocking images larger than 200KB. Saves a lot of mobile data for me.

In Russia, Opera turbo also useful when you want quickly see website banned by Roskomnadzor

Re: Opera Browser adds integrated adblocker

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Post by cataflam »

rockdoe wrote: post #48
deprave wrote: post #26

Opera has long been known for being ahead of the pack. Let's hope at least Mozilla and Microsoft follow suit...

Firefox already has tracking protection, which also blocks ads (because they almost universally track you). It's Opera that is following suit, probably as a reaction to the publicity Brave is getting.

Opera actually had an integrated blocker years ago in their previous engine. However, they scrapped most of the functionalities when they switched to Blink in 2013.
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