How To Remove 90% of Internet Ads

[Mr.Cool]

Do those Ads annoy you ? Does the sight of Google Ads make you red?
If you'd like to remove them, you can use Opera (http://www.opera.com/download/) to go about it.

What you need
Before continuing, you will need the list of ads to block out. The list can be found here (http://www.technobeta.com/posts/opera-ads/).

What you need to do:

Open up the folder where you have installed Opera (usually C:\Program Files\Opera\ ).
Navigate to the Profile folder ( C:\Program Files\Opera\profile )
Make sure you have closed Opera before continuing
Open the urlfilter.ini (http://www.technobeta.com/posts/opera-ads/) file and paste the entire contents beginning from [exclude] to the end.
Save and Close the file.

NOTE:

Always keep a backup of the file before editing it.
The list given above only helps to blockout public ads (that is those provided by a network such as Google). To block ads hosted on a site, use the Block Content option (right click any empty area in the site and block out images/flash etc.)

Please note that this is a tutorial for Opera. There are other tutorials for Firefox and/or plugins which we are not concerned about here in this post. Please don't start a Firefox vs. Opera war here.

[Kiran_tech_mania]

Mention the source,
Source: http://www.technobeta.com/posts/opera-ads/

[eagle_y2j]

Mention the source,
Source: http://www.technobeta.com/posts/opera-ads/

kiran c Mr.Cool's signature it shows most probably this site belongs to him so i don't think he need to mention source ....

www.technobeta.com

Before marriage, a man Yearns for the woman he loves.
After marriage, the \'Y\' becomes silent.

[Mr.Cool]

eagle_y2j thats true. TechnoBeta.com is my site. Hence I did not mention the source. :)

[ashisharya]

eagle_y2j thats true. TechnoBeta.com is my site. Hence I did not mention the source. :)

good way to promote ur site

[forever]

atleast give it up for the guy , its a very useful thing , good job brother :)

[Mr.Cool]

good way to promote ur site

Sigh! My Blog's already getting sufficient hits a day. Take a look (http://alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=technobeta.com).

atleast give it up for the guy , its a very useful thing , good job brother

Thanks :) Atleast you understand. I posted this cause I want people to shift to Opera and see its benefits. I'm a big Opera fan you see :)

[blueshift]

This is cool but wouldn't this be illegal...?

[piyush gupta]

No its useful information
only coz the site owner is telling its benefits

doesn't make it illegal

[rahul_rks]

thanks for the info.will try it out.

[caleb]

Thanks...will definately try it out.

[Kiran_tech_mania]

Ok guys and Mr.cool. I missed out reading your signature. Error regretted.

[Mr.Cool]

Yes Indyan is right...

Tamil has updated his page with the TechnoBeta link.

And i have made a new entry with his links.
Check it out: http://www.technobeta.com/posts/new-ads-list-for-opera/

[ssk_the_gr8]

hey i have no profiles folder
what to do

[blueshift]

^
Browse through your OS install partition correspondingly. You need to enable showing hidden system files from Folder Options.

G:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile

[ssk_the_gr8]

thanx man

[blackpearl]

The urlfilter.ini file is not present by default. First open any website with opera, click on Tools>Advanced>Block Contents and then block any ad or picture on the website. Once you do that the urlfilter.ini file will be generated. Now you can add the filter list to the file.

I've been using Opera for long and I love it. :)

[led_shankar]

I don't think it is right to block ads for free services :(

[ahref]

I already read the post in your blog. You are in my feedreader. Anyway no use for me as I do not use opera.

[Akshay]

Had been using adblock in firefox since long coz I didnt knw opera also has same feature... trying it out.. thnx all 4 useful info...