Opera 9 has added a solid ad banner blocker, under the guise of a generic "content blocker". (This indirect name is presumably only there to keep a good corporate image.) To block an ad (either an image, frame, or Flash animation), right-click an empty spot on the page and choose Block content. Then, simply click the banners which you want to block. When finished, click Done in the pseudo-toolbar that appears at the top of the page.
By default, this tries to use some logic to block all ads from the source, but this may sometimes be overkill. To correct this, click the image again (to unblock it), then Shift-click it. This will add only the specific image to the filter list. This filter can then be broadened by clicking Edit.
A filter will typically contain asterisks ('*'). These mean "any number of any characters", much like in filenames for operating systems.
For more information, go to the BlockAdvertisements page.
The following are pre-Opera 9 techniques for blocking ads. Needless to say, they are now completely unecessary as compared to the Opera 9, they are cumbersome interfaces to the a configuration file. Nevertheless, these are useful examples of techniques for extending Opera.
Opera has the ability to run external programs and scripts and pass various information to them from Opera commands. One use of this is to pass the address of an advert or other content that is annoying you to such an external tool and it can then edit a UserCSS file automatically and add in the advert to a blocklist. There are currently three flavours to this: the first using the large and powerful Python, the second the tiny Lua environment and the third a C++? executable (which means it does not need any additional libraries to be used). See these pages for more information:
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jakobci5@yahoo.de
129.217.143.253 (2005-05-11 04:07:34)
jakob, I don't really understand your question - see each page for specific install information as each is different in terms of path requirements...
NonTroppo (2005-05-15 04:05:03)
I arrived here because Fastclick figured out some way to get around Opera's built-in popup blocker.
Fastclick creates popups invisibly in the background, where they hog resources and eventually force me to close and reopen Opera. Then the invisible Fastclick popups become visible and I can close them. But this whole process is very annoying.
I'm not a geek so I'm looking for the simplest solution. I also want to use the least RAM because I keep lots of applications open, including dozens of Opera windows. (I'm using XP)
It sounds like the Python solution is a RAM hog. So choosing between Lua and C, which is (a) easiest to install and (b) uses less RAM?
bob@blogcall.org
24.90.108.35 (2005-12-09 10:39:38)
Also C recommends Opera 9.0TP1, but that's a "preview" version that doesn't sound stable enough for me.
Should I just wait for Opera 9, since item #1 on the changelog is:
Enhanced pop-up blocker to detect more unwanted pop-ups.
bob@blogcall.org
24.90.108.35 (2005-12-09 10:49:36)
If you problem is only fastclick then the best solution probably is filter.ini.
There are 6 entries in the latest pgl.yoyo.org filter
http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=operafilter&showintro=1&startdate%5Bday%5D=&startdate%5Bmonth%5D=&startdate%5Byear%5D=
You can use all the other ones as well,they are all known ad hosts
Here
http://nontroppo.org/wiki/BlockAdvertisements
is how to use filter.ini (scroll to "Using the Built-in URL Filter")
The most generic entry you can use is
http://*fastclick*
which can be used alone and probably won't cause any problems.
81.4.128.53 (2005-12-09 15:29:15)
"Also C recommends Opera 9.0TP1, but that's a "preview" version that doesn't sound stable enough for me.
Should I just wait for Opera 9, since item #1 on the changelog is:
Enhanced pop-up blocker to detect more unwanted pop-ups.
bob@blogcall.org"
The preview versions of opera 9 also have a built in adblocker, right now they are comming out with weekly builds, and as such are more likely to have issues. You can get the weekly builds here
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/
69.112.12.4 (2006-02-28 21:19:29)
Hi, I'm looking for something for Opera with functionality equivalent to that of Adblock Plus on Firefox. Adblock Plus comes with a filterset by default, which it periodically updates.
Something like that for Opera?
89.133.27.189 (2007-03-09 16:20:55)
fanboy.co.nz/adblock/
203.114.139.47 (2007-06-15 02:12:48)
adblock plus for opera
67.209.75.96 (2008-08-25 10:56:40)
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85.13.205.153 (2008-08-25 23:05:45)
This page has been made obsolete by BlockAdvertisements, I would like to nominate it for deletion. In the meantime, I'll add a link to BlockAdvertisements at the top.
XaleHaseo (2008-10-04 03:20:16)
domriclano
122.200.102.7 (2008-12-01 11:18:34)
comment5,
222.184.56.3 (2009-03-02 21:30:00)
comment4,
221.231.114.12 (2009-03-02 21:32:02)
comment5,
210.202.77.201 (2009-03-02 21:32:37)
thanks this really helped
99.158.48.201 (2009-03-08 18:34:10)
doors.txt;10;15
68.41.17.223 (2009-09-15 06:11:51)
How is this page obsolete when content blocking works the same way even in the newest Opera 10.50?
91.101.6.13 (2010-03-02 04:56:24)
i hope to find here help
i know this question is very easy but..it diving me mad.
we emagin
i put the x.css file in
c:\Program Files\Opera\beautiful\ so does x.css could be found
c:\Program Files\Opera\beautiful\x.css
AND NOW
How i write the path where the rpgramm could find..
jakob
129.217.132.49 (2005-05-11 02:29:43)