remember when opera had 1 gimmick that made it some-what better

>>59980820

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is planning to introduce an ad-blocking feature in the mobile and desktop versions of its popular Chrome web browser, according to people familiar with the company’s plans.

The ad-blocking feature, which could be switched on by default within Chrome, would filter out certain online ad types deemed to provide bad experiences for users as they move around the web.

Google could announce the feature within weeks, but it is still ironing out specific details and still could decide not to move ahead with the plan, the people said.

Unacceptable ad types would be those recently defined by the Coalition for Better Ads, an industry group that released a list of ad standards in March. According to those standards, ad formats such as pop-ups, auto-playing video ads with sound and “prestitial” ads with countdown timers are deemed to be “beneath a threshold of consumer acceptability.”

In one possible application Google is considering, it may choose to block all advertising that appears on sites with offending ads, instead of the individual offending ads themselves. In other words, site owners may be required to ensure all of their ads meet the standards, or could see all advertising across their sites blocked in Chrome.

>>59980832

By switching on its own ad-filter, Google is hoping to quell further growth of blocking tools offered by third-party companies, the people said, some of which charge fees in exchange for letting ads pass through their filters.

Google already pays to be part of an “Acceptable Ads” program offered by software company Eyeo GmbH, for example, which develops popular ad-blocking tool Adblock Plus. As a result, advertising on Google’s search engine and some of the other ads it powers are allowed to pass through Adblock Plus’s filters.

>>59980843

>ppl still use AdblockPlus

>>59980820
>1 gimmick
Opera had tabs before Chrome even came into existence faggot

Opera died after Presto died. What you're talking about is Chrome with an opera skin.
I want newfags to leave.

>>59980858

opera was around since the 90s and is still a shit portion of the market

its desktop version literally has the top add-on that allwos you to add chrome addons, cause nobody cares about the ones it has

>>59980820
> Reading WSJ
FUCKING NORMIE SCUM GET OFF THIS BOARD RIGHT NOW.

>>59980911

its the article hosted on drudge, faggot

i can care less what the source is