I asked how to stop re-directs in the forum. No answer was forthcoming except Opera does it automatically. Let me tell you that Opera does not! I have since found a browser - Brave - that does. It's wonderful! So Opera it's been fun over the last 5 years but I am moving on. Let me just say...it's not me, it's you 😞
Opera has been updated nearly two weeks ago. Since then to my knowledge two severe Chromium issues had to been addressed and they were in all major Chromium built browsers. I doubt they were fixed by Opera in advance, were they?
Even tiny Vivaldi seem to be quicker in fixing issues like that. I just Wonder.