![[image: An Opera instance which shows no ads]](opera.png)
As long as Opera has no more ads, Opera with no ads
is a dead project.
September, 20th, 2005: Opera has launched Opera 8.5, which has no ads.
Opera with no ads has turned into a useless utility.
Funny timeline, huh? September 12th: release of Opera with no
ads. September 20th: release of Opera, with no more ads...
(Who said Opera made a test on August, 30th, with a free
registration and decided, based on this test, to remove ads? You really
are a stupid revisionist!)
A little utility to forbid the Opera browser to show you ads. And you don't have to pay for that.
Ah yes, it is in the public domain of course. Licenses are bad things.
The Opera browser is my favorite one. But I don't want commercials. So, I forbid this nice browser to download them and show them to me.
Opera connects to the website 193.69.116.13 to get
its commercials.
I made a dynamic library that redefines
connect, send, recv and
select, so that I let Opera believe it does real
accesses to the website 193.69.116.13. But I indeed
return to it my own data, which is a link to my website with
the text: Free as in "Freezer".
Of course, a problem of this approach is that the site
193.69.116.13 becomes inaccessible to you.
But I don't think there is anything of interest there,
so it's not a big loss. (If you really need to access
this site, go and use some other tool or launch opera
instead of opera.hacked.)
Initial release, Mon Sep 12 2005: libopera-0.1.tar.gz (7,377 bytes)
The code has been tested with opera 8.0 and 8.02 for Linux. If you have troubles using it, ask me, I may be able to help you.
You compile the program. Then, you copy libopera.so and
opera.hacked in the Opera's directory. Then, instead of
calling opera to launch the application, you call
opera.hacked.
You should click Cancel in the Opera's starting
screen that asks you the kind of commercials you want, so that
the default "text commercials" remain in use. The other kinds of
commercials seem to use different connections than the one taken
over by libopera.
Oh, and if you still get commercials the first time you
launch opera.hacked, you may need to clear the
caches (Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> History).
noopads:
a utility that hides the ads of Opera, for Windows users. Before
Opera with no ads, I did this,
which is conceptually the same thing than noopads for X11.
But it was annoying and did not work 100% well. (I did not test
noopads since I don't use Windows.)
Blocking Adverts
In Opera: some info (maybe accurate, maybe not, I don't know) on how
to block ads in Opera.
Contact: sed@free.fr
Creation time:
Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:45:05 +0200
Last update:
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:30:21 +0200
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