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Given that basically everyone should be blocking ads (if for no reason other than that they are a vector for malware), native ad blocking is really an energy saving mode, a user experience improvement, and a crucial security measure all rolled up into one feature.

If the focus of this test is meant to be on the user experience, as the tone of the Microsoft blog post seems to suggest, then said native ad blocker is a killer feature that really might mean Opera users can "stay productive longer".

If not, then sure, Edge's underlying implementation is probably faster. It would be interesting to see a comparable benchmark of Edge with the best available ad blocking turned on.