Aliexpress promotion in sidebar and start page

avmon

avmon

I have the sidebar disabled but when I opened Opera today, I found a huge advertisement from Aliexpress on top of the Speed Dial tiles that I had to close. I've also seen that icon in the sidebar.

What is the use of disabling all the advertising options in Opera settings if they keep inserting more and more ads that become annoying?

This, the bugs and removing the useful button to open recently closed tabs makes me consider changing the default browser.

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @newmangaka

@newmangaka Probably some (partner) promotion.

A Former User

Opera not only fails to block ads on webpages (which hasn't been fixed for months!), it actually Pushes their own ads right in the browser!

This spam was added to speed dial without consent:

This spam was added to sidebar and it cannot be turned off!:

What's even more ridiculous, it shows on top of fullscreen content e.g. YouTube:

Also the android version started adding spam to speed dial against the settings ("suggested spam" turned off)

Are you guys out of your minds?! Looks like this really is Opera's downfall... Shame really, it used to be such a great browser.

A Former User @avmon

@avmon couldn't agree more!

A Former User @Guest

@Lord-Blizzard Opera is slowly sliding down to a gutter forcefully pushing on our Desktops new c__p. Instead of asking us and/or adding two new items to Settings, Opera Team has created in previous releases few patches (embedded backdoor code) enabling itself to flood us or litter our browser with unwanted s__t.

Without our consent. Polish coders without Polish understanding of freedom. Bad news is developing...

pol2020

pol2020

Yeap after 10 years of using i've just uninstalled Opera Browser.
With Global market share about what... 2%? and Opera team made something like this !
Goodbye

herrpietrus

herrpietrus

I've tolerated some Speed Dial adverts, but that huge icon on the sidebar is too much. I'm really thinking about switching to Edge or Vivaldi... Do you know some good and safe speed dial extension? I don't need much more to be honest, all extensions I use are in Chrome Web Store...

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Keepskite

Keepskite @herrpietrus

@herrpietrus Opera Speed Dial is what keeps me tied to Opera. The day someone comes up with a reasonable knock-off....

naheed

naheed

It is working fine with me. I haven't encountered any Aliexpress ads so far.
If you are facing some ads, then it may be a promotion.
You can close it manually, I think.

A Former User @naheed

@naheed Aliexpress app (via clicking icon with both LMB and RMB) cannot be removed or opened now. The first icon (from this thread) was changed to the next version:
Unknown icon in sidebar/left side
https://forums.opera.com/topic/44946/unknown-icon-in-sidebar-left-side

naheed

naheed @Guest

@pavelopdev Then it should be removed. I hope developers will remove such type of Ads.
I have seen various threads related to the same issue.
Hope so, it will be solved soon.

A Former User @naheed

@naheed The big problem is not the unwanted ads. It's the method or the technical means applied which enables them to push to you ((subliminal or undetectable) and nefarious) activities.

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer

So, did you figure out how to turn it off yet? At the top - next to the "x" to close the panel - you can see three dots aligned vertically. Click on that, choose "Don't show this again", done. Not an obvious place, but it is there.

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer

Follow up - Developer is a little strange in that regard. When it showed up there (a few minutes ago) I went ahead and did the same thing, but it was still visible until I restarted Opera. When I disabled it in Stable, the panel and icon vanished immediately.