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    • deestonic
      deestonic @leocg last edited by

      @leocg Oh, please, don't play that game. It shows ads, it's intrusive - so, i'm paying with my attention. And that's just what they want.
      So yes - it's not free.
      Opera once was one of the worlds best browsers and look at it now, it's just a bit more than piece of crap. Generic shit...poorely made.

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer @deestonic last edited by

        Except for Chrome and iE/Edge, because they don't depend on it, almost all browsers will show you promoted speed dials and/or bookmarks at least once.

        And free doesn't necessarily means without any cost.

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        • leocg
          leocg Moderator Volunteer @deestonic last edited by

          If Opera no longer fits your needs, why don't you just go use something else? There are lots of browsers around there.

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          • blackbird71
            blackbird71 @deestonic last edited by

            @deestonic said in Unwanted speed dial entries - again:

            @leocg Oh, please, don't play that game. It shows ads, it's intrusive - so, i'm paying with my attention. And that's just what they want.
            So yes - it's not free. ....

            There is no "game" involved in what he said. In this world, there are no true 'free' lunches... somebody, somehow must pay in some way for creating and offering them. In the conventional marketplace, payment for something is normally made by handing over 'money'; when money is not handed over, then the term "free" is often applied to the transaction. Use of that term in ads normally conveys that the product is available without the user paying money for it.

            However, there still remains a real cost that exists for the product, and either the maker must cover that cost 'out of the goodness of his heart' (and incur the losses) or he must attempt to recover 'value' (to him) from the user so as to defray his true costs. There are only three main mechanisms available for a maker to recover value from a "free" product: sell the user's personal data and/or browsing details into the data-marketing arena, sell access to the user's eyeballs (ads and favored placements within the product), or cover/underwrite the cost of the 'free' product from the maker's profit from a different for-pay product in hopes of interesting the user in buying that for-pay product. There is only one end-point for companies that don't somehow recover their continuing costs for 'free' products they provide: bankruptcy.

            I don't particularly like ads and such, but in an Internet world dominated by the revenue model of "free" software and websites, I realize that either eyeballs or data about me are the payment for such. I don't, however, feel outraged and entitled to continue using such "free" products without paying for them in some way, since I'm nowhere entitled to a life full of free lunches in the real world.

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            • bbildman
              bbildman last edited by

              Funny, because I have 2 laptops running Windows 7 Pro, and I haven't had ANY advertising Speed Dial icons in many an Opera update, for months now.

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              • deestonic
                deestonic @leocg last edited by

                @leocg said in Unwanted speed dial entries - again:

                If Opera no longer fits your needs, why don't you just go use something else? There are lots of browsers around there.

                I am using something else, of course.
                Installed Opera after not using it for sooo long just to check on it, is it any good again.
                Guess we all know the answer to that. 😞

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                • leocg
                  leocg Moderator Volunteer @deestonic last edited by

                  Yep, Opera is still the best browser.

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User @leocg last edited by

                    @leocg

                    Your right Opera is really under rated, I really am giving it all the word-of-mouth support I can give. ☝

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                    • agdam
                      agdam last edited by agdam

                      Ads in speed dial is okay when they are only appear after update, but i cannot delete some dials, they re-appear after sometime...reset will help ?

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                      • sgunhouse
                        sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                        After you delete them, go to Bookmarks and make sure you empty the trash. Sync has been known to restore deleted items if you haven't emptied them from the trash,

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                        • agdam
                          agdam @sgunhouse last edited by

                          @sgunhouse 👍 🤝

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                          • A Former User
                            A Former User last edited by

                            Opened an Opera (54.0, Mac) Speed Dial page just now to find newly added shortcuts to Target and a travel site mixed into the middle of my usual bookmarks. They didn't show up as "Suggestions" (which are turned off) - they were just tucked away in the mix of my thumbnails.

                            I haven't visited Target's website in years, and hadn't shopped there for months until this past weekend - now suddenly it shows up as a "suggestion"? Creepy.

                            I used the travel site a month ago, in Private Browsing mode w/VPN. Why would it suddenly show up on my Speed Dial?

                            I certainly didn't add either shortcut, and I have "Show Speed Dial Suggestions" turned off in both "Easy Setup" and "Preferences." I have plenty of other "bookmarks", but these aren't among them.

                            So what the hell!?!?
                            What else can I expect might randomly appear w/o warning or consent?
                            This has apparently been a recurring problem for years.
                            Do you really want to dick around w/the tiny market share of users you still have? Those who already left Chrome, FF & IE for pulling this kind of crap?

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                            • sgunhouse
                              sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                              Opera will add new speed dials from partners from time to time - I just got speed dials from Target and Groupon (an online coupon site). If you don't want them, delete them (and don't forget to go to Bookmarks and empty them from the Trash) and forget about them.

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                              • A Former User
                                A Former User @Guest last edited by

                                @nobiznis,

                                you may want to note that, probably from (stable) Opera version 56, it should be possible to prevent these unwanted additions.

                                Please stop ads via speed dial entries

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                                    • slytheringirl
                                      slytheringirl @deestonic last edited by

                                      @deestonic I quite agree. Opera has gone down the sewer drain with all the problems I've been having with it 1)Sync working only when it feels like, 2) Connecting pages slowly or not at all due to Windows 10 Creators Update and now 3) Sync screwing flash up to a point where I need an addon to have flash working even though it is installed and should work.

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                                      • A Former User
                                        A Former User last edited by

                                        I notice every time that Opera for Mac updates, I get the default speed dial links (as if installing for the first time) inserted into my existing (and detailed) speed dial.

                                        Could we please stop that? 🙂

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                                        • graywoulf
                                          graywoulf last edited by

                                          I just experienced having quite a few unsolicited speed dials added to my browser from retailers like Target, Booking.com, and Groupons as well as an eBay speed dial just suddenly appear. How could this happen and is there a way to stop this from happening in the future? Thanks for any help with this.

                                          graywoulf

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                                          • leocg
                                            leocg Moderator Volunteer @graywoulf last edited by

                                            See https://forums.opera.com/post/151826

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