{"id":163835,"date":"2016-05-04T09:42:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T07:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=163835"},"modified":"2016-05-04T09:43:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T07:43:31","slug":"opera-mini-gets-built-in-ad-blocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/163835-opera-mini-gets-built-in-ad-blocker.html","title":{"rendered":"Opera Mini gets built-in ad blocker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Built-in ad blocking has arrived for the almost 120 million users of the Opera Mini browser for Android.<\/p>\n<p>Opera said its mobile browser loads webpages 40% faster with the ad blocker enabled, and\u00a0Mini users can save\u00a0up to 14% in data consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Research by Enders Analysis found that between 18% to\u00a079% of data downloaded on smartphones is from ads, said Opera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cost of data is still prohibitively high for many, and heavy ads only exacerbate this problem,\u201d said Opera.<\/p>\n<p>A survey by GlobalWebIndex found that, during the fourth quarter of 2015, 79% of respondents were either already blocking ads on mobile or were interested in doing so.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Opera-Mini-native-ad-blockers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-163839\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Opera-Mini-native-ad-blockers.jpg\" alt=\"Opera Mini native ad blockers\" width=\"630\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on Opera<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/162726-unlimited-free-vpn-built-into-the-opera-browser.html\"><strong>Unlimited free VPN built into the Opera browser<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/108430-opera-takes-over-nokia-browser-building.html\"><strong>Opera takes over Nokia browser building<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/77702-mobile-browser-war-apple-vs-android-vs-microsoft-vs-opera.html\"><strong>Mobile browser war: Apple vs Android vs Microsoft vs Opera<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opera software has launched a native ad blocker in its Opera Mini web browser for Android.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":163837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,35280,207,3048,1639],"class_list":["post-163835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-ad-blocker","tag-opera","tag-opera-mini","tag-opera-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163845,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163835\/revisions\/163845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}