Spam advertisement/extension?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@jetro It's just Opera promoting some feature.

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@mike88 Moderators are just regular users, they don't necessarily know more than you.

And they have no obligation in replying to you or anyone.

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @rlwieneke last edited by

@rlwieneke It seems to be just a promotion of the snapshot feature.

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by

@leocg Oh what

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A Former User last edited by

So it may be a promotion of the snapshot feature but there again perhaps it isn't. On the Internet we have to be careful with everything we do and click on etc. Popups that are malware are often disguised as genuine items. Perhaps Opera could consider warning customers of a forthcoming promotion or whatever .**** Perhaps this is too much for them and we should click on everything we see ! ****I have been an Opera user since the days when the user had to pay to use the browser. As for me I consider the moderators response flippant and I am now considering other browser options, built on Chromium that do not inflict this stuff on users. If Opera does it again I'm going for good. It will be interesting to see if the popup appears tomorrow on a machine I haven't used for a week.

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donq last edited by

I got it either, additionally Opera assistant was installed. Got rid of both, but I consider such agressive and badly presented feature promotion pure spam.

If any of Opera devs reads this - plese stop such experiments, you may alienate long-time Opera users easily.

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @donq last edited by

@donq Opera Assitant is installed when you install Opera from a third party software.

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donq @leocg last edited by

@leocg said in Spam advertisement/extension?:

@donq Opera Assitant is installed when you install Opera from a third party software.

You may think so, but I have seen that fscking assistant already on two computers, where Opera dev version is installed once (many years ago) from opera official site and only autoupdated afterwards. And I have not installed anything on those PCs lately either.
Most likely you have read forums and noticed that many users have experianced exactly similar behavior.

Well, this thread is about spam-like adverts form Opera; I'm sorry that I mentioned (IMO) related misbehavior; no more offtopic from me

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rlwieneke @leocg last edited by

@leocg said in Spam advertisement/extension?:

leocg

leocg can you please cite and link the Official Opera source that it is a snapshot feature?

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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

See the right sidebar on the Desktop team blog for the latest Developer build.

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @rlwieneke last edited by

@rlwieneke I don't remember any at the moment.