I didn't see anything in the release notes that seemed like it, though Speed Dial was mentioned a few times, so I guess it was one of those.

I get that Opera is supported by things like this. But it keeps adding tiles for stuff that I already have on there (eBay and Amazon for example). Could the behaviour at least be altered to check for duplicates before spamming the speed dial?

Yesterday, however, is fresh in mind. I did upgrade a Windows build, and Opera also triggered the problem. Hmmm. Is it even possible that Opera could be looking at the specific build number of Windows 10 in making the determination of whether it should un-blacklist something?

With Windows 10 upgrades being almost like a full, fresh install anymore, maybe there's something to that.

Yesterday, however, is fresh in mind. I did upgrade a Windows build, and Opera also triggered the problem. Hmmm. Is it even possible that Opera could be looking at the specific build number of Windows 10 in making the determination of whether it should un-blacklist something?

I'll definitely be watching more closely now and let you know if one follows the other again.

O15 had Stash and at least it was something new for the whole 'landing' ~ before igniting to surf the world wide web.

Internet has changed so much since and these days people need comprehensive service to keep, maintain and organize they're abundance of information and data, data, data.

That other browser expanded Speed Dial with Stash Folders ~ sort of to say. Now I heard they're going even further.

Perhaps people somewhere else - like at Reddit - would be interested to brainstorm a concept brainstorm. Use pencil and paper or PS or Gimp. Drawing board is always fun time of dev.

By design if anything is in blacklist it means user deleted those partner offers and we shouldn't added them again when updating list of Speed Dials. There is exception from this that we could force some partner to appear again, but this in normal case would happen just for certain Speed Dial and definitely not like every week. I will forward this to developers perhaps they will have some more ideas.

Note that when I remove the Speed Dials in question (had to do it just today, which is in line with it tending to happen a few days after a new build), they stay gone for a matter of days. It's not as if I remove them, close Opera, run Opera, and see them again, which would certainly suggest the writing problem you mention. I can also add SD's consistently. So I don't think it's that. Maybe it's the signature issue though.

-Current Win10 build: 17686.1003. But it's happened with all the builds I've used stretching back to last year. Including 17134, which is an RTM build.

-Portable (Dev)

-Program Files\OperaDev\profile\data

It's different from yours. What does being on a blacklist mean? Maybe you'll see something in it. I see that it contains all six of recurring items (Overstock used to be the seventh, but it must have been dropped).

"speeddial": {
    "bookmarks_folder_guid": "7661E6C9-BDEA-4FA8-9C5C-5F83F31F565D",
    "hide_plus_button": true,
    "hide_suggestions_forced_for_news": true,
    "imported_to_bookmarks": true,
    "partners": {
        "blacklist": {
            "http://aliexpress.com/": "20171003",
            "http://www.amazon.com/": "20171003",
            "http://www.booking.com/": "20180329",
            "http://www.ebay.com/": "20171003",
            "http://www.walmart.com/": "20171003",
            "https://www.tripadvisor.com/": "20171003"
        },
        "guid": "24e4a92c-fedc-4943-8b18-a114f444fe8c",
        "migration_state": 2,
        "post_migration_cleanup_state": true,
        "signature": "6QniTEoT5fWhEF3Iwu9m4RKo2vY9lyemBZ5WibGQX68=",
        "timestamp": "13172820183614318"
    },

Thanks

1. When user makes changes to some key features (Extensions, Speed Dials) they are saved in Preferences file in profile
2. Those changes are then signed to confirm on next run they haven't been modified outside Opera

It would seem that in your case there is problem with either writing those changes to Preferences file or some problem with generating correct signature for them. Could you give us more details here:

• What is your operating system exact version
• What type of installation you have
• Where is your profile folder (you can check it on opera://about page)
• Check content of Preferences file (located in your profile) for speeddial.partner.blacklist key. You can use page like http://jsbeautifier.org to get content into more readable state. It should something like this:

"speeddial": {
        "bookmarks_folder_guid": "1A05856C-84F8-4C46-85B0-E84A56B30C2C",
        "column_count": 7,
        "hide_search_box": false,
        "imported_to_bookmarks": true,
        "partners": {
            "blacklist": {
                "http://aliexpress.com/": "20171003",
                "http://domodi.pl/": "20171003",
                "http://www.booking.com/": "20171003 20180329",
                "http://www.ceneo.pl/": "20171003",
                "http://www.euro.com.pl/": "20171003",
                "http://www.gazeta.pl/": "20171003",
                "http://www.groupon.pl/": "20171003",
                "https://allegro.pl/": "20171003",
                "https://www.eobuwie.com.pl/": "20180320",
                "https://www.homebook.pl/produkty/wyprzedaze": "20180301",
                "https://www.zalando.pl/": "20171003"
            },
            "guid": "15fc35d4-f2c7-4ac7-a8f6-876f8f476236",
            "migration_state": 2,
            "signature": "by3Zv8hqugpBF6LzIV8eZ+YcsBa5FgcEyOoO7vqobFs=",
            "timestamp": "13172819140845008"
        },
    },

As for forced Speed Dials, that's still a regular feature, and I expect it's just part of Opera's advertising deals. I guess someone will have to devise some clever way around it, or at least to automate their periodic removal.

I've noticed that along with the spam Speeddials, Opera inexplicably disables extensions (at least it tells you that it's doing so now, which is probably why I'm noticing it).

I wonder if the two phenomenons are connected.

If so, maybe it's the spam Speeddials being injected that somehow causes Opera to want to disable extensions (that makes more sense than it being the other way around, at least).

That might make it a case of one hand of Opera (the one injecting SpeedDials) not communicating with the other hand of Opera (the one looking for suspicious events, and maybe disabling extensions when it thinks something is wrong)?

+1

Are you saying that items in Trash will automatically resurrect? If so, why? I'm not seeing the subtraction of any items in Trash, btw, just the addition of them each time that I delete them from Speed Dial. I would think that if they were resurrecting then they should be moving out of Trash each time.