Useful Thing: Opera’s Block Content Feature

When it comes to blocking content there are two options: 1) import a list of sites and file names that will be blocked; or 2) manually block the site/file as it appears.

FireFox’s AdBlock extension uses the first method, while Opera implements the second.

The Block Content feature in Opera can be accessed by right-clicking in a blank area of any website. Right-click > Block Content. The page will then turn hazy and only the ads will be clickable. You can then left-click on an ad to make it disappear forever! Or shift-click if you want only that one image rather than ads with similar file names.

It is a bit tedious because you have to do this for every website. However, for the sites I go to the most, it is great to not have to see those ads because once I click the ads to disappear, I never have to do it for that site again!

2 comments November 8th, 2006 browsers, internet, opera