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diff --git a/opera/opera-for-android-best-features.txt b/opera/opera-for-android-best-features.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..826155a --- /dev/null +++ b/opera/opera-for-android-best-features.txt @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +There's more to life than Google Chrome and thanks to the European Commission, even more people will soon be discovering that for themselves. In answer to the EU's antitrust charges, Google is introducing a so-called browser ballet screen in Android that offers to install a variety of mobile web browsers in addition to Chrome. + +We may be little biased, but if you've never used anything but Chrome we wanted to show you a few things you've been missing. By switching to Opera for Android you'll get better privacy, faster browsing, fewer ads and annoyances, and access to cutting-edge technology like web 3.0 + +Opera for Android offers five key features that that will keep you safer online, speed up your browsing and block online annoyances. + +## Free VPN for added privacy + +Opera for Android features a built-in VPN, or virtual private network, which gives you increased control and privacy in your mobile browsing. There's no need to sign up for an expensive VPN service or download a separate app. Opera for Android already has everything you need to shield your browsing on public Wi-Fi. + +To turn on the built-in VPN protection, just tap on "Settings" in your Opera browser and activate the VPN option. Once you enable the VPN, Opera will replace your IP address with a virtual IP address. This makes it much harder for websites to track your location and identify your device. + +Opera does not collect any information that travels through the network servers. This keeps your private data protected and gives you added peace of mind when connected to a public Wi-Fi networks. + +## Cookie Dialog Blocker + +Opera for Android offers a built-in cookie dialog blocker to stop annoying cookie dialog boxes. You've probably seen these intrusive overlays that interrupt your browsing and hide the content you wanted to see. + +The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides people with an improved control over their online privacy by requiring websites to get a user's permission before tracking them via a cookie. While that's good for user privacy, it unwittingly spawned a sharp increase in complex and confusing dialog boxes that want you to accept the site's privacy policy so the site can track you. + +Opera for Android blocks these dialog boxes, letting then you surf on without any interruptions, allowing you to see the content you wanted. As an added bonus, since you never agreed to anything, those websites are not allowed to set the tracking cookies they would have set had you clicked "Agree." + +## Ad blocker + +Advertisements slow down the web and use up your mobile data. In fact, Opera's research shows that browsing with Opera's ad-blocking feature is on average 62 percent faster than without ad blocker. Our research has also shown that browsing with the ad blocker enabled reduces memory consumption by nearly half. That makes Opera faster, easier on your bandwidth, and potentially easier your phone's battery. + +There are many ad-blocking extension available for other mobile browsers, but none of them are as fast as Opera for Android's native blocker. Extensions must look up URLs as they are received, blocking whatever matches with the extensions block list. Opera checks the block list using native code, which allows it to block ads early, when a network request for a URL is first made. + +The native ad blocker is disabled by default, but turning it on is simple. Just head to Settings and toggle the "Block ads" switch to turn it on. Once it's on you can activate or deactivate the ad blocker for a specific website by clicking the Opera icon and then flipping the "block ads" switch there. + +If you're interested, you can even open up the settings panel and the ad blocker dialog will tell you how many ads you’re blocking on the current page and how many you've blocked overall. + +## Crypto Wallet + +Opera for Android is the first web browser to integrate support for a cryptographic wallet into the browser, helping to bring the future web, Web 3.0, to you today. + +Opera for Android offers support for crypto payments, directly from the browser to merchants, other users and apps. As long as the merchant supports it, you can send money from your crypto wallet to make online purchase, send money to other users, and interact with Ethereum decentralized apps, or Dapps. + +Web 3.0 is being built faster than most of us have figured out what it can do and how to use it. The technology is beginning to fall into place, but it remains technical and often difficult to use. Opera is helping to bridge this gap by offering a more user-friendly and seamless experience for crypto currencies and the applications built on those platforms. + +Opera hopes that by integrating Web 3 alongside the current web we will make the technology more approachable, easier to understand, and, ultimately, more mainstream. + +## Choice of search engines: + +Opera for Android allows you to choose from many non-standard search engines. Opera offers familiar favorites like Google, Bing or Yahoo, but also provides easy access to privacy-friendly DuckDuckGo. You can change search engines whenever you want, just select the URL bar to begin a new search and then tap the search site icon to see a list of your options. + +It you'd like to change the default search engine, head to Settings and tap the "Default search engine" option to select your favorite search engine. + +That's not all Opera for Android offers of course. It also syncs your data with the desktop version, offers theme support, dark mode, and dozens of other features. Check out Opera for Android today. |