<![CDATA[How to remove Whatsup & Facebook messenger]]>Note: I want to remove them, not just hide.

Browser makers tend to boast about increasing security and privacy, and yet they add in (force upon us) the biggest privacy violators of them all.

So, how to remove ?

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Since this update I have not been receiving push notifications on my mobile device, so I believe the two could be linked.

This is totally unrelated to what is being discussed on this topic.

Also the OP seems to no longer have interest on the subject, closing the topic.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122124https://forums.opera.com/post/122124Sat, 27 May 2017 20:20:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to remove Whatsup & Facebook messenger on Sat, 27 May 2017 18:25:29 GMT]]>Why does it matter if it's a windows device, what I am suggesting is that opera is intercepting the notifications so that I don't see them on my mobile device.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122111https://forums.opera.com/post/122111Sat, 27 May 2017 18:25:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to remove Whatsup & Facebook messenger on Sat, 27 May 2017 06:35:56 GMT]]>Just go to Speed Dial Settings & untick both (look for Sidebar Settings)--that's how I did it --took me a while to figure it out, but now it's gone !

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122052https://forums.opera.com/post/122052Sat, 27 May 2017 06:35:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to remove Whatsup & Facebook messenger on Sat, 27 May 2017 06:00:03 GMT]]>Mobile device? Is it a Windows device, or are you in the wrong forum?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122050https://forums.opera.com/post/122050Sat, 27 May 2017 06:00:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to remove Whatsup & Facebook messenger on Sat, 27 May 2017 05:55:54 GMT]]>Since this update I have not been receiving push notifications on my mobile device, so I believe the two could be linked.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/122037https://forums.opera.com/post/122037Sat, 27 May 2017 05:55:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to remove Whatsup & Facebook messenger on Thu, 11 May 2017 18:21:32 GMT]]>This thread should be made into a suggestion, although I personally have no problem with simply unticking or ‘hiding’ them since you will not be able to click on them by accident anyway.

@luca786toni ‘Privacy’, you said? I have tried to register an account, but it forces me to enter a telephone number. When I do enter my number, it will not even accept it. I will support your suggestion if you post it to the Suggestion forum though.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/120522https://forums.opera.com/post/120522Thu, 11 May 2017 18:21:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to remove Whatsup & Facebook messenger on Thu, 11 May 2017 12:02:22 GMT]]>

I would like the ability to reorder the messengers.

Totally off-topic here. Please do your Suggestion in Suggestions Box.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/120487https://forums.opera.com/post/120487Thu, 11 May 2017 12:02:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to remove Whatsup & Facebook messenger on Thu, 11 May 2017 11:41:15 GMT]]>I would like the ability to reorder the messengers. As for Telegram, it's a justified choice to include that because 1) it's privacy centric, and 2) when WhatsApp goes down people flock to Telegram more than anywhere else.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/120483https://forums.opera.com/post/120483Thu, 11 May 2017 11:41:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to remove Whatsup & Facebook messenger on Thu, 11 May 2017 00:47:07 GMT]]>You could simply right-click the sidebar and untick them. I did the same.

I am a little disappointed not to find Line (particularly popular in Asia) and WeChat (second most users in the world). They have only added the Western ones which are not very well known or even blocked, and Telegram is a mystery.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/120426https://forums.opera.com/post/120426Thu, 11 May 2017 00:47:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to remove Whatsup & Facebook messenger on Wed, 10 May 2017 22:29:31 GMT]]>They are just links, like bookmarks. Hide them and they will be gone.

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