cwizardone |
07-13-2013 10:30 AM |
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Originally Posted by gezley
(Post 4989666)
I can actually use an adblock file on Opera, but at the moment my main machine is out of action with a blown PSU, and I'm too lazy to set this one up properly. I too have been using Opera since the early 2000s, when I paid for it, and sadly, it appears you are correct - with version 15 Opera has bowed to the demands of the Facebook generation and shot itself in the foot to accommodate their need for a dumbed-down, fast browser. It seems to be a common thread lately - great software projects losing their marbles just when they appeared to be taking off. If I were a conspiracy theorist I would suspect a trojan horse in their midst but a moderator rapped me on the knuckles for suggesting such a thing last year.
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Based on watching what mickeysoft did over the years to build their near monoploy, Google is, IMO, doing, or trying to do, something similar with Linux and the Internet, and, very unfortunately, like mickeysoft, they have the money to do it.
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Originally Posted by gezley
(Post 4989666)
The point stands though. Too many websites are unbearable now - congested, slow, top-heavy with images and videos and too far removed from web standards. I no longer waste my time and bandwidth waiting for them. It is arrogant on the part of the designers to assume we all have fibre access to the net. Many of us don't even have DSL.
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Agreed. Some sites are so "busy" that even with a reasonably good connection they are slow to load. I avoid those sites when I have choice (don't need whatever they have to offer or the information is available elsewhere).
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