Ads in speed dial

[RoseMartland]

RoseMartland last edited by

Sneaky folks seem to keep moving the location of the setting! After mucking about, I finally found the current one, as of August 2022:
Settings->Basic "Allow Acceptable Ads" toggle to off.

For those who need to find Settings, either:
-Click the gear in the left hand sidebar; or
-Click the sliders icon in the upper right "Easy Setup", just below the close-out X, scroll to bottom of pop-up menu "Go to full browser settings"; or
-Right click on any empty space on the start page, choose Settings

Basic is the top tab on the Left menu in Settings

Beneath Privacy Protection are:
Manage Exceptions
Manage Lists
Allow Acceptable Ads <- toggle that to off.

I don't mind developers making money through ads, but unwanted ads in my speed dial moves the icons around so I have to pay attention to them, which defeats the purpose of speed dial in the first place. Opera is still my go-to browser [has been since the browser wars] so it was worth finding a solution. But from what I can easily find, this setting keeps being relocated and re-named, probably to reduce the number of users opting out. That's a very, very, bad plan! People who use Opera are dedicated, but will jump to a different browser if Opera becomes annoying or just as big a resource hog as the other options. Stop playing silly games with your users!

[Root422]

Root422 last edited by

As of August 2023 The settings are under "Privacy and security", at the bottom of the category, named "Receive promotional Speed Dials, bookmarks and campaigns" and "Display promotional notifications" respectively.

[rogbiz]

rogbiz @Root422 last edited by

@root422 Regrettably there's no such options in my Privacy and Security section.

[rogbiz]

rogbiz @Root422 last edited by This post is deleted!

[thesophile]

thesophile @Root422 last edited by

@root422 Thanks, I was just going to uninstall opera.
Can't they just put these ads in a separate section, like the "suggested bookmarks" section? This is very annoying, and defeats the purpose of "speed dial" if I have to search among these ads to find my bookmarked site.

[A Former User]

A Former User @thesophile last edited by

@thesophile incase you or anyone else was still wondering, after you successfully get all the tile ads removed, there's one last pesky search engine looking ad(walmart.com for me) that you cslan get gone by hitting the little down arrow, then the x. Don't click the little fake search engine ad, just the tiny little down arrow, then the x. After doing this, it did not return. I hate how such a nice browser can be so scummy. The settings to remove them constantly change and it's highly annoying! Hope this helps, friend!

[KitsuneAkki]

KitsuneAkki last edited by

I found it:

[cska133]

cska133 @KitsuneAkki last edited by

@kitsuneakki where did you find this setting?

[KitsuneAkki]

KitsuneAkki @cska133 last edited by

@cska133 in the Privacy and Security section at the bottom:

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @KitsuneAkki last edited by

@kitsuneakki This is Opera for Android area of the forum.

[KitsuneAkki]

KitsuneAkki @leocg last edited by

@leocg apologies i see that now, is there the desktop version this can be rather moved to please for reference for folks who are trying to stop this annoyance?

[MikeR78]

MikeR78 last edited by

How to do this? The Android version, people keep posing on how to do it for the desktop version.

[hucker]

hucker @MikeR78 last edited by

@MikeR78 Opera should work the same on both platforms. If it doesn't they're not very good programmers. The word I'm looking for is consistency. Imagine you used both regularly....