{"id":283669,"date":"2018-11-07T11:29:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T09:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=283669"},"modified":"2018-11-07T11:30:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T09:30:07","slug":"opera-will-block-cookie-pop-ups-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/283669-opera-will-block-cookie-pop-ups-on-android.html","title":{"rendered":"Opera will block cookie pop-ups on Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opera.com\/ofa\/upgraded-48\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>latest version of Opera&#8217;s web browser<\/strong><\/a> for Android now includes the ability to block cookie dialog boxes.<\/p>\n<p>This feature automatically blocks dialog boxes which pop up on websites asking for permission to allow cookies.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that simply blocking the pop-ups will not block the cookies, and users will have to choose whether they want to block or allow all cookies, or only block those from third parties.<\/p>\n<p>Users can access this feature by navigating to Settings &gt; Ad Blocking within the Android app.<\/p>\n<p>Opera has also added quick access to QR scanning, searching and shortcut creation, along with improving its text wrap and text size tools.<\/p>\n<p>The option to block cookie dialog boxes within Opera will roll out to other platforms in the future, the company said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LndVuU-XXQY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/274065-the-most-popular-browsers-and-operating-systems-for-pcs-and-smartphones-2.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The most popular browsers and operating systems for PCs and smartphones<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest version of Opera&#8217;s web browser for Android now includes the ability to block cookie dialog boxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":180220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[55297,55293,207,55295],"class_list":["post-283669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-adblocking","tag-cookie-dialog-boxes","tag-opera","tag-pop-ups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283669"}],"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\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}