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27 Aug 10 at 15:28

Today we’ll talk about Opera, of course not about an art form. This article will explore how to combat annoying ads using tools of a popular browser.

To conclude the topic of ad-blocking (1, 2), we consider the same for the Opera web browser.

You haven’t to install add-ons and plug-ins, because everything is already built-in to the browser.

The same page of popular website Habrahabr remains our goal:

We’re calling a context menu by right-clicking and will select the option Block content:

Then we’ll click on that we want to block and these images are removed:

Besides I can see another banner that I did not even notice - it is white.

Once all that is needed (more precisely all that is not needed) is blocked - we click "Done":

The images were removed. It remained only to block a contextual advertising. It is necessary to know a web site, from which the ad has been transmitted in order to successfully combat it. To do this, we’ll move the mouse cursor on the one of links in the table and look at the web site in a browser's status bar:

Now we’ll open the list of blocked content:

In the list we’ll click Add and enter the following mask for blocking "*an.yandex.ru*":

Now we’re updating the web page and enjoying the lack of advertising:

Dmytro Krasylnikov
"Design and Test Lab", Ltd. 2010
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