Latest version floods speed dial with ads

[vince42]

vince42 last edited by vince42

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:

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.

[vince42]

vince42 last edited by

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.

[vince42]

vince42 last edited by @sgunhouse

@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.

[zalex108]

zalex108 last edited by zalex108

My recommendation is to Root the device and use AdAway from F-Droid.

No more ads, mostly on every App.

[vince42]

vince42 last edited by @zalex108

@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.

[zalex108]

zalex108 last edited by @vince42

@vince42

BlackBerry Priv?

[vince42]

vince42 last edited by @zalex108

@zalex108 yes.

[zalex108]

zalex108 last edited by @vince42

@vince42

You may like to read this KingoRoot article.

[vince42]

vince42 last edited by @zalex108

@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.

[vince42]

vince42 last edited by

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?