Thursday, November 10, 2016

Best Ad-Blocker Opera, Image Blocker & Flash/HTML5 Blocker Opera

Best and safest ad-blockers, image blockers, and flash/html5 blockers for Opera webbrowser and detailed instructions on how to use them

 The only other webbrowser I frequently use is Opera. Opera is a great webbrowser by itself and with the extensions available on addons.opera.com/extensions/ it is safe to use when following our instructions, but not as good or convenient as Google Chrome is, but this is not really a problem anymore since with this extension for Opera you will be able to download and install extensions from Google Chrome Web Store directly in your Opera browser!

 Here is the direct download link to the extension for Opera that allows you to install Google Chrome extension in your Opera webbrowser:

 https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/download-chrome-extension-9/

 Best and safest Image Blocker for Opera

 Wizmage Image Blocker

 https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wizmage-image-blocker/ifoggbfaoakkojipahnplnbfnhhhnmlp/
Note: Most browsers that are based on the Chromium source code, such as Opera and Vivaldi, should be able to install extensions directly from the Google Chrome Web Store. Some browsers, should as Vivaldi, can install Opera Extensions as well.

 For all the instructions on how to install and use Wizmage Image Blocker for Opera, read the information on Wizmage Image Blocker for Chrome and Opera that covers this information.

 You need to read the above information in order to understand certain things about this image blocker and also in order to learn how to solve some minor problems that will occur when using this image blocker.

 Fast Image Blocker

 https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/image-blocker-plus/

 For all the instructions on how to use Fast Image Blocker for Opera, read the information on Fast Image Blocker for Chrome and Opera that covers this information.

 You need to read the above information in order to understand certain things about this image blocker and also in order to learn how to solve some minor problems that will occur when using this image blocker.

 Best and safest Flash and HTML5 Blockers for Opera

 Flashcontrol

 https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flashcontrol/mfidmkgnfgnkihnjeklbekckimkipmoe/

 Flashcontrol for Chrome and Opera is the only flash blocker we currently recommend since it blocks more flash content than any other flash blocker we know of.

 For all the instructions on how to install and use Flashcontrol for Opera, read the information on Flashcontrol for Chrome and Opera that covers this information.

 Note: If you use other flash blockers than those we recommend, you might encounter various problems, such as that pdf files won’t show themselves without disabling the flash blocker etc., and other possible conflicts.

 Disable HTML5 Autoplay

 But in order for the above flash blocker to work properly, you need also to download and install an extension that blocks html5 content from automatically playing on youtube and on other websites that you are browsing, such as this one:

 https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/disable-html5-autoplay/

 Note: Since html5 is becoming the new standard online, is not enough with just a flash blocker anymore; and most youtube videos are also automatically played with the new html5 format when available.

 For all the instructions on how to use Disable HTML5 Autoplay for Opera, read the information on Disable HTML5 Autoplay for Chrome and Opera that covers this information.

 Flash Blocker Plus

 Note: This information about Flash Blocker Plus is only saved in case the current Chrome/Opera compatibility will stop working.

 https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/noflash/

 Note: Although this one blocks flash content (and pdf files!), it does not block html5, which is why an additional blocker is need.

 This extension after installation should be activated by default. If you need to enter an exception so that flash can be activated automatically, you do so by clicking on the flash blocker icon, then press the + button to add the address already present into the exception list.

Note: I don’t have google.com as an exception. I only added it in order to make an example.

 Press the X icon in the circle in order to remove the website. There are a lot of websites put into this list as exceptions as you will see after having installed the program (not a smart move, since it makes people think the program doesn’t even work!).

 Only add exceptions (the + icon with the address already inserted) that are absolutely necessary or needed, since it won’t block flash content on that site if you have it added.

 Note: The right arrow is pointed to where the exception button is located.

 Also, when clicking the red f icon, if the f icon in the menu is red, this means the flash blocker is activated; if the f icon is grey, it means it is disabled for all websites.

 Note: The down arrow is pointing towards the activated and red colored f icon, which means that it is activated. If you press on the red f icon, it will become grey and disabled.

 Remember to remove exceptions if you need to avoid seeing flash content on a site if you added an exception you should not have added.

 Note: If pdf files don’t load properly, disable the flash blocker temporarily and refresh the page and it will load (don’t forget to enable the flash blocker again afterwards!). If it still don’t work, you may need to disable Fast Image Blocker also, since this image blocker also blocks pdf files from loading.

 Since Flashcontrol is so much easier and better to use for Opera and since it is compatible with Opera, I simply recommend that you install Flashcontrol for Chrome in Opera instead.

 HTML Content Blocker

 Note: This information about HTML Content Blocker is only saved in case the current Chrome/Opera compatibility will stop working.

 https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/html-content-blocker/

 Note: This extension not only blocks html5, but also images, videos, frames, objects, css and java. In other words, it can block everything, but it cannot add exceptions, and so it is not so handy. Also, to block css and java is not recommended, unless you like to destroy sites and not be able to use them.

 Use this extension only in order to block video contents from automatically playing, such as html5. To do this, press the HTML Content Blocker icon, then click on the “media” button to the far right. When you have activated it, a blue underlining will appear under the icon, and the text under the icon will read: “HTML Content Blocker | media”.

Tips: As one can see in the images of websites displayed below, how Opera decides to show a website’s thumbnail is another advantage with using this browser over the others since the others instead shows their actual content (but if one always surfed websites with images off anyway the mini thumbnails in Chrome, Firefox etc. that always pops up would also be shown without images, and so it wouldn’t be a problem).

 This page can be edited to show either suggestions, or only those sites you visit or choose to put there (“Add a site” button). I always have it completely disabled though with no suggestions or any sites of my own.

 Important: This is the only html5 blocker I know of in Opera that does not show the video thumbnail when disabling html5 autoplay. All others stop the video from playing but shows the thumbnail. This one completely blocks the video so that you can’t even press play even if you wanted to, and hence you would need to disable it in order to do this. But allowing oneself to see video content playing when one do not even know what it is is obviously dangerous, and for this reason and many others, we cannot recommend anyone using Opera as their main webbrowser for watching or listening to videos. You must use Google Chrome or Firefox for that since it is much safer, as is described here.

 Note: After having written this above information, I later came across an extension for Opera that, if you install it, allows you to install Chrome extensions in the Opera webbrowser! This means that these problems as described above can be avoided, if you use and install Wizmage Image Blocker in Opera while having the Disable HTML5 Autoplay extension activated in Opera. Read the information on Disable HTML5 Autoplay for Chrome and Opera and Wizmage Image Blocker for Chrome and Opera that covers this information.

 Best and safest Adblockers for Opera

 Note: We recommend no one to use Opera’s built in adblocker since it gives the user no abilities to manually block ads or other contents of their choosing.

 uBlock Origin

 https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/ublock/

 AdBlock

 https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/adblockforopera/

 Adblock Plus

 https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/opera-adblock/

 I have already explained in detail why we recommend no other adblockers at present besides these; and why uBlock Origin* is to be preferred over the others with Adblock Plus preferably used alongside because of its superior manual blocking abilities.

 All the information on how to configure these adblockers in order to remove all ads and add additional security and useful features, as well as all the necessary information and explanations on how to manually block all possible things, have already been addressed in detail in the Google Chrome, Opera, Safari and Microsoft Edge Adblock section. Please read it carefully.

 * uBlock Origin is only to be preferred in Opera provided the user uses Wizmage Image Blocker and have it activated in Opera at the same time. The reason for this is because for some reason, in both Chrome and Opera, when uBlock Origin is activated, not all images gets blocked by Fast Image Blocker, most notably youtube embed video thumbnails (and perhaps other video sites thumbnails), among other images! I don’t know why this happens, but it does! It doesn’t happen in Firefox though, so this makes me believe it is a Chrome/Opera issue.

 If you don’t use Wizmage Image Blocker for Opera (not recommended), or if the Opera/Chrome extension compatibility is removed in the future—and provided the issue remains that not all images gets blocked when using uBlock Origin for Opera—then you will have to use AdBlock for Opera instead before all others, since this adblocker in my tests did not suffer from these problems. Adblock Plus was generally safe to use also, but it did display images sometimes, and was therefore not as safe. AdBlock was close to, if not 100%, in the tests I did. For this reason, I cannot recommend any other adblocker than AdBlock if Wizmage is not used, or cannot be used, for Opera.



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