I remember when they wrote a great URL blocker which was blazingly fast and very easy for the user to edit and came with zero opinions. It was built in the bro

I remember when they wrote a great URL blocker which was blazingly fast and very easy for the user to edit and came with zero opinions. It was built in the browser's engine core, had some UI elements to help add or remove things quickly, but at the end of the day was just a text file in your profile. I remember it because it's what Opera 12 has, which is still my main browser to this day. Edit: !!! As https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11397230 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11397230 points out, this new ad blocker is even worse than anyone could think: It has literally no user interaction, except from adding websites to a whitelist. Other than the whitelist it has exactly two settings: On / Off If it's blocking something on a website where you don't want it to block, but also want to block ads? Tough luck. If you're on a website where it's failing to block something you want blocked? Tough luck. If you want to block something that's not an ad? Tough luck. It's depressing how far Opera ASA has fallen.