Opera browser, version 56.0.3051.116...

[bitbybit]

bitbybit last edited by

The OS is Windows 10 Pro, 64-bit, the home page is set to DDG. Every time the browser starts, it connects to the following URLs:

duckduckgo.com
bank.gov.ua
www.ecb.europe.eu

This system also have IE11, Edge, Firefox and Vivaldi browsers, neither of the browsers attempt a connection to the banks in Ukraine and the EU, if and when the browser starts.

This system does not have any banking applications, nor do I do banking from this system. I don't believe that this is some kind of malware in Opera, the chances are it's just some kind of "feature" in the browser.

Does anyone know a settings, where these connections could be disabled?
TIA...

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator last edited by

Opera does include a currency converter, it needs to check the current exchange rates on startup to do that.

[bitbybit]

bitbybit last edited by @sgunhouse

@sgunhouse

Yes, it's a premature connection to the banks, that can be disabled:

https://help.opera.com/en/latest/features/#currencyConverter

Doing so doe disable the connection to the Ukrainian, but not to the European bank. Is that a bug in the interface?

TIA...

[leocg]

leocg Moderator last edited by @bitbybit

Maybe, I think it shouldn't disable any of the connections.