"Draw a heart with Snapshot on Valentine's Day" spam advertisement

[ncdave4life]

ncdave4life last edited by leocg

Re: Spam advertisement/extension?

I just had a spam advertisement pop-up in Opera Version:73.0.3856.344 (Update stream: Stable, System: Windows 10 64-bit (WoW64)). It is extremely obnoxious, covering up a 352x292 pixel block in every tab. Here's a screenshot:

https://sealevel.info/ad_inserted_into_Opera_draw_a_heart_with_Snapshot_on_Valentines_Day_screenshot01.png

I have few extensions in Opera, but just yesterday I'd installed the Redirect Bypasser v.2.1.3 extension by Moises Lima, so I initially suspected it as the culprit. But I disabled it, and the pop-up spam ad is still there, even in a new tab. So I don't think it is to blame.

Here's a screenshot showing the spam advertisement covering part of the "Extensions" page:

https://sealevel.info/ad_inserted_into_Opera_draw_a_heart_with_Snapshot_on_Valentines_Day_screenshot02.png

Today is Valentine's day, 2021. It apparently happened to some people last year on Valentine's Day, too. There's a discussion here:

https://forums.opera.com/topic/38350/spam-advertisement-extension?_=1613307548847

That discussion includes a screenshot of the same ad, but in Norwegian, rather than English:

https://i.imgur.com/TCUkV7Z.png

It was never resolved in that discussion who/what is to blame, but the majority opinion was that it's the Opera developers, themselves, who created this spam ad, to advertise Opera's snapshot feature.

Say it ain't so, Opera! Surely the browser with the built-in ad blocker would not insert a spam ad on top of every web page!?!??

[A Former User]

A Former User @ncdave4life last edited by

@ncdave4life
Yeah, got it today again (still in badly typed Norwegian). It's really weird; I don't understand the thought process behind this kind of official(?) promotion which looks like pure spam.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I would rather Opera leave us to browse by ourselves - I, like many other people, don't like pop ups!