<![CDATA[Latest version floods speed dial with ads]]>Hi,

I am quite irritated an also rose a bug report on this issue already. The latest version floods my speed dial page with huge annoying and even animated ads, which makes reading the news posts a nightmare.

I disabled ads in the settings.

Any idea, how and when this could be fixed?

Cheers
Vince

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/24580/latest-version-floods-speed-dial-with-adsRSS for NodeWed, 20 May 2026 20:52:48 GMTTue, 16 Jan 2018 20:43:02 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Latest version floods speed dial with ads on Wed, 24 Jan 2018 22:18:31 GMT]]>Aside from the "AdAway workaround" - I am really confused that nobody dislikes all the advertisements in Opera now.
The last version used to be ad-free, plain, content-focused - and now this? Speed Dial / News has ads every where, reading mode has an ads on the bottom - this should not happen when the ad blocker is enabled.

I would even pay for an ad-free version - how about that, Opera? 😉

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/138161https://forums.opera.com/post/138161Wed, 24 Jan 2018 22:18:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latest version floods speed dial with ads on Mon, 22 Jan 2018 10:22:01 GMT]]>@zalex108 thank you, that's very helpful for other "root-related" issues.

I am really curious when Opera will address this nasty ad issue in the current version - I cannot understand why people are still fixing things that ain't broken. And I also wonder why not every user of Opera is complaining about this ad disaster.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/137962https://forums.opera.com/post/137962Mon, 22 Jan 2018 10:22:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latest version floods speed dial with ads on Mon, 22 Jan 2018 10:17:16 GMT]]>@vince42

You may like to read this KingoRoot article.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/137961https://forums.opera.com/post/137961Mon, 22 Jan 2018 10:17:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latest version floods speed dial with ads on Mon, 22 Jan 2018 08:03:25 GMT]]>@zalex108 yes.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/137952https://forums.opera.com/post/137952Mon, 22 Jan 2018 08:03:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latest version floods speed dial with ads on Mon, 22 Jan 2018 01:26:29 GMT]]>@vince42

BlackBerry Priv?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/137938https://forums.opera.com/post/137938Mon, 22 Jan 2018 01:26:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latest version floods speed dial with ads on Mon, 22 Jan 2018 01:09:41 GMT]]>@zalex108 thank you for the tip! unfortunately I am running Android on a BlackBerry, where rooting is (almost) impossible, from what I heard.

Let's hope that the guys from Opera will wake up soon and fix this.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/137935https://forums.opera.com/post/137935Mon, 22 Jan 2018 01:09:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latest version floods speed dial with ads on Mon, 22 Jan 2018 01:23:00 GMT]]>My recommendation is to Root the device and use AdAway from F-Droid.

No more ads, mostly on every App.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/137933https://forums.opera.com/post/137933Mon, 22 Jan 2018 01:23:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latest version floods speed dial with ads on Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:14:22 GMT]]>@sgunhouse aside from the fact that there should be no ads in the speed dial / news screen, mine are humongeous and are animated. This is simply a no go. If Opera needs to finance their development, they should offer a paid version, but not boasting about their ad blocker while at the same time cluttering everything with ads by themselves.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/137924https://forums.opera.com/post/137924Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:14:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latest version floods speed dial with ads on Fri, 19 Jan 2018 12:49:11 GMT]]>Any idea, what is going wrong? I am using Opera in order to get rid of all annoying ads - and this is anything but not-annoying.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/137759https://forums.opera.com/post/137759Fri, 19 Jan 2018 12:49:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latest version floods speed dial with ads on Wed, 17 Jan 2018 20:50:08 GMT]]>The app names itself "Opera" - it is the only Opera I found in the Play Store, it has the version 44.1.2246.123029 - does that help?

I have checked the ad blocker option, turned it on, off and on - nothing changes.

Please have a look at this screenshot: 0_1516222053529_screenshot.jpg

As you can see there is one news on top of the screen, a large animated ad, which I don't want and that never happened before and one news on the bottom. These ads are displayed every three to six news - it's a nightmare.

I am using Opera for blocking ads - and not for get spammed with ads, when I want to read some news.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/137652https://forums.opera.com/post/137652Wed, 17 Jan 2018 20:50:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latest version floods speed dial with ads on Wed, 17 Jan 2018 06:31:22 GMT]]>And this is Opera browser for Android, not Opera Mini nor Opera Beta?

I checked after my last post and can't even find news on mine ... ah, there seems to be a switch in Settings, though having turned it on I see nothing from my selected categories anyway. The ads I do see (about 1 per 5-6 articles) are not animated; they are also nothing that would interest me. So looks like I turn it back off.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/137601https://forums.opera.com/post/137601Wed, 17 Jan 2018 06:31:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latest version floods speed dial with ads on Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:46:35 GMT]]>@sgunhouse Rather the news page(s), as there is no longer anything like a speed dial page in my version: the speed dial entries are displayed on top of the main news page.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/137571https://forums.opera.com/post/137571Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:46:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Latest version floods speed dial with ads on Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:40:40 GMT]]>Speed dial itself, or the news page?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/137570https://forums.opera.com/post/137570Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:40:40 GMT