Opera Says Its Next Opera Release Will Have the Fastest Ad Blocker on the Block

One of the key highlights of the Opera 52 release will be the improved performance of the built-in ad blocker as Opera claims to have enhanced the string matching algorithm of the ad blocker to make it open web pages that contain ads much faster than before, and, apparently than other web browsers, such as Chrome. According to the Opera developer, the benchmarks were conducted on about 15 popular news websites in 10 iterations each, showing that Opera 52 performed with up to 16 percent faster than Opera 51 and 44 percent faster than the Google Chrome 64 web browser, which is the first release to come with a built-in ad blocker