Affirm pop-up showing up on some shopping related pages

[ttlgs]

ttlgs @mbaresi last edited by

@mbaresi I did not do all the steps. I only changed the file to "read only" and so far that as fixed the issue. I also went into Opera then Settings - Advanced -and unclicked the "receive promotional speed dials, bookmarks and campaigns" button

[MewQuest]

MewQuest @ttlgs last edited by

@ttlgs great too hear. that may be all that is needed. depends on what all opera has programed into their software to do. i went above and beyond by basically hard locking the file. i can't even delete it or edit it myself. lol. i would need to add myself back into the files permission list.

[ttlgs]

ttlgs @MewQuest last edited by

@mewquest so far still good, but now I'm paranoid for the next update. I did send Opera a "bug" report but have not heard back from them.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @ttlgs last edited by

@ttlgs Opera doesn't reply to bug reports as said on the confirmation e-mail message that you should have received when reported the problem.

[ttlgs]

ttlgs @leocg last edited by

@leocg I received this message from OPERA:

Dear User,
Thank you for your report!
We are aware of this issue and are currently investigating.
As a temporary fix I can suggest closing popup by clicking 'X' once and then restarting the browser.
Thank you for helping to improve Opera!
Best Regards,
Opera QA Team

[MewQuest]

MewQuest @ttlgs last edited by

@ttlgs they responded to my bug report saying they are aware of it and told me something dumb like close the ad and restart the browser. haha. like that would work.

[MewQuest]

MewQuest @ttlgs last edited by

@ttlgs said in Affirm pop-up showing up on some shopping related pages:

@leocg I received this message from OPERA:

Dear User,
Thank you for your report!
We are aware of this issue and are currently investigating.
As a temporary fix I can suggest closing popup by clicking 'X' once and then restarting the browser.
Thank you for helping to improve Opera!
Best Regards,
Opera QA Team

yep i got the same dumb response. that doesn't work.

[ttlgs]

ttlgs @MewQuest last edited by

@mewquest me too. Like we hadn't already done that 40 times

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

That's it! I cleaned my registry of <affirm>, cleaned all instances of <affirm> in my user directories, in Windows.... rebooted each time, after a couple of browsing, Lowes, Home Depots, eBay, Amazon.... etc..... Spent too much time trying to fix this, while the Chinese are busy being productive. Off to Firefox land. Bye bye Opera.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by leocg

Affirm issue: Poof! Uninstalled. Opera is gone.

Firefox is now default. Reinstalled Roboform, EditThisCookie, added my VPN.... all running smooth and faster (know not why faster!?) Maybe as I add extensions, it might slowdown. Thank you Opera for making me look. All my best wishes.

[Meezie]

Meezie @Artyem last edited by

@artyem
This worked for me. Thanks!

[DaveyB]

DaveyB last edited by

Bye Bye Opera. Had to create an account to post this but not standing for this crap

[A Former User]

A Former User @MewQuest last edited by

@mewquest This one worked for me, I edite permissions and so far nothing has returned. Seems to permanently disable the Affirm popup

[MewQuest]

MewQuest @Guest last edited by

@longtimeuser yes it should work forever (or until they change how the affirm spam is deployed, say with another file elsewhere). I am at 21+ days (with this fix), a few new Opera updates have happened and my fix is still working for me. no more affirm popups anywhere and that file (affirm_whitelist.json) is still locked and empty at 0 bytes.

[btpoc]

btpoc @MewQuest last edited by

@mewquest I left the 'header' in there and remove the whitelisted domains. Locked down the file as you suggested. Still no popups! Thanks.

[dredman]

dredman last edited by

Has this always been in Settings:

The "Display promotional notifications" was enabled when I checked after the affirm popup breached my annoyance threshold. I unchecked it and restarted Opera. I didn't see the popup when I reloaded the site I was on. Granted that's only one data point, but I didn't see any other mention of Promotional other than @ttlgs comment

[DaveyB]

DaveyB last edited by

Already went to Edge all the time on the home PC. Will no longer used Opera on my work PC
I use an Adblocker for most BS, but this built in & could not be blocked.
Co-workers have also stopped using Opera as most of them do not have rights to edit the AppData files (I do)
So in one fell swoop Opera lost us as a Company