Booking.com ad in omnibar breaking basic functionality

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I have the same issue. It is extremely irritating.

This was a very poor decision on the part of Opera to include this.

It must be making them good revenue, but it doesn't make me happy.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I updated to 53.0.2907.106 several hours ago and this is still occurring. Typing in "dis" to go to discogs.com, for example, instead shows me a booking.com advertisement for "disneyland hotel", which is what is opened if I press Enter instead of the actual site in the omnibar. This has a disastrous effect on being able to rely on muscle memory while browsing.

If that wasn't the intended behavior, then I'm not really confident that the actual intended behavior is really any better. Adding sponsored links to Speed Dial was one thing, but constantly injecting ads and unwanted sponsored search terms into basic UI elements in response to user input is extremely intrusive and I'm strongly considering switching browsers because of this.

[gmiazga]

gmiazga Opera last edited by

Thanks for informations. From my limited knowledge server push should have fixed this issue. This was performed as a test and apparently it went really bad this time. We are going to keep looking into this issue further to see why it didn't work for you so far.

[gmiazga]

gmiazga Opera last edited by

Got an information that while we work on proper fix for this it should be enough to disable following settings on opera://settings page "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar".

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Seems to be fixed now - at least, I'm not seeing it in Developer and I was yesterday.

[aquagreen]

aquagreen last edited by

It's not yet fixed in 53.0

[A Former User]

A Former User @sgunhouse last edited by

I'm not seeing it on my end now, either. Thank heavens.

[frd3]

frd3 last edited by

It seems like it's back to normal on my side too.

[A Former User]

A Former User @gmiazga last edited by

@mgeffro I can confirm it's gone on my browser now.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Topic closed as solved. If in up until to a month the author needs the thread to be reopened, just report it. briefly explaining the reason

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Reopened as @aquagreen had a pending post - is it working for you also now?

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

This is still occurring for me in 53.0.2907.106. Was the fix supposed to be available through the stable update stream?

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

As I understood it, they fix is just some server configuration thing. Possibly you need to close Opera to apply the update.

[aquagreen]

aquagreen last edited by

I shut down opera last night and started using chrome. Just now I started opera back up and noticed that I had a number of new bookmarks in my bookmarks bar: amazon, walmart, ebay, trip advisor, AND, booking.com. I removed it and I haven't seen the issue since.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

This is still occurring for me after closing and restarting Opera multiple times within the past 24 hours.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@revenant1 You need to keep Opera opened for about an hour. Did you do that?

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Yes, even after being open for several hours I'm still seeing booking.com searches taking over the omnibar when I attempt to type specific URLs/phrases ("dis" and "disc" like I was seeing before, "nyc" and "chi" like other posters in the thread originally reported).

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Okay I have to say

1: For me this problem has been resolved and
2: It seems like the folks at Opera responded to user feedback.

Good things.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Seems to be resolved when using Opera on a different machine, though last time I tried it at home I was still getting the booking.com ads in the bar even after restarting the browser several times. I'll give it a try again when I get home later today.