<![CDATA[Unexpected Sidebar]]>When I search for www.cnn,com I see that page for a moment and then get switched to the Opera sidebar showing selections for "Personal News". Uxexpected and odd since Personal News is unchecked in the sidebar setup, and the "Manage Opera sidebar" is optioned to remain hidden.

This is a new action that has not happened before. In the past, a search for this website has always worked as expected. Any idea what's causing this, and how to fix it?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/39671/unexpected-sidebarRSS for NodeMon, 08 Jun 2026 17:07:12 GMTThu, 09 Apr 2020 02:41:47 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Unexpected Sidebar on Fri, 10 Apr 2020 16:38:06 GMT]]>@gp123 This post may habe given the erason for the problem.
There is a link that seems to be server as a rss feed and i wonder if it may have triggered the issue.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/206057https://forums.opera.com/post/206057Fri, 10 Apr 2020 16:38:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unexpected Sidebar on Fri, 10 Apr 2020 14:02:21 GMT]]>Just took a look this morning and the problem seems to have corrected itself !!!

All back to normal with CNN.com on Opera, without any action on my part.

Yet another Opera mystery ???

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/206027https://forums.opera.com/post/206027Fri, 10 Apr 2020 14:02:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unexpected Sidebar on Fri, 10 Apr 2020 01:32:35 GMT]]>@timasino I cleared all browsing data and that solved the problem.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/205966https://forums.opera.com/post/205966Fri, 10 Apr 2020 01:32:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unexpected Sidebar on Thu, 09 Apr 2020 23:22:15 GMT]]>@gp123 I just cleared all browsing data (ctrl+shift+del) in Opera then restarted the browser. I was then able to open http://us.cnn.com without it going to the Personal News page. The only negative consequence was having to login to sites again but other than that it was fine.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/205943https://forums.opera.com/post/205943Thu, 09 Apr 2020 23:22:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unexpected Sidebar on Thu, 09 Apr 2020 19:47:43 GMT]]>Exactly how did you "clear all cookies" ? In Opera only, or in general? Notice any (negative) consequences of this?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/205927https://forums.opera.com/post/205927Thu, 09 Apr 2020 19:47:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unexpected Sidebar on Thu, 09 Apr 2020 18:48:26 GMT]]>@jhoman81 I have this same problem. I get redirected to personal news after CNN loads. I've deleted all cookies, blocked cookies from CNN and done everything to disable personal news but can't disable it. This just started yesterday April 8. My Google searches also get redirected to a "Thank you" search. This manipulation is driving me nuts.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/205929https://forums.opera.com/post/205929Thu, 09 Apr 2020 18:48:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unexpected Sidebar on Thu, 09 Apr 2020 17:07:16 GMT]]>@leocg I just cleared all my cookies and it seems to have solved the issue. Hopefully it works for the others. Thanks!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/205918https://forums.opera.com/post/205918Thu, 09 Apr 2020 17:07:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unexpected Sidebar on Thu, 09 Apr 2020 16:41:26 GMT]]>@jhoman81 Already tried cleaning related cookies?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/205914https://forums.opera.com/post/205914Thu, 09 Apr 2020 16:41:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unexpected Sidebar on Thu, 09 Apr 2020 16:38:31 GMT]]>@jhoman81

Should have mentioned that I am using latest Opera Version:67.0.3575.137

Glad (sic) that you have seen the same issue. Thanks for the tip about http://editions.cnn.com. Seems to work fine.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/205913https://forums.opera.com/post/205913Thu, 09 Apr 2020 16:38:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unexpected Sidebar on Thu, 09 Apr 2020 16:12:34 GMT]]>I have the same issue; this is quite annoying and just started happening in the last day or two.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/205915https://forums.opera.com/post/205915Thu, 09 Apr 2020 16:12:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unexpected Sidebar on Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:46:02 GMT]]>@leocg I had a few enabled (F1000 Annotator, Augmented Steam, Opera Ad Blocker, and a Google Translate sidebar extension) but I disabled all of them, restarted the browser, and still have the same issue.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/205912https://forums.opera.com/post/205912Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:46:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unexpected Sidebar on Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:29:04 GMT]]>@jhoman81 Are you using any extension?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/205910https://forums.opera.com/post/205910Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:29:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unexpected Sidebar on Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:13:14 GMT]]>@leocg I stepped through the site with the developer tools and found that this warning pops up right before I'm redirected to the Personal News page.

Annotation 2020-04-09 100451.png

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/205905https://forums.opera.com/post/205905Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:13:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unexpected Sidebar on Thu, 09 Apr 2020 14:33:30 GMT]]>@jhoman81 Couldn't reproduce it here, both pages load fine.

By the way, here CNN doesn't seem to have any RSS feed.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/205899https://forums.opera.com/post/205899Thu, 09 Apr 2020 14:33:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unexpected Sidebar on Thu, 09 Apr 2020 14:00:54 GMT]]>Addendum

  1. Same problem happens in Opera when I change the search engine from Duck-Duck-Go to Google

  2. Typo -- Firefox~~ (not Foxfire)

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/205889https://forums.opera.com/post/205889Thu, 09 Apr 2020 14:00:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unexpected Sidebar on Thu, 09 Apr 2020 13:38:58 GMT]]>I have the same issue as @gp123 with Opera ver. 67.0.3575.137. When I go to http://us.cnn.com the page loads and I am then immediately sent to the same "Personal News" sidebar page with CNN HP Health Link 1 header. If I go to http://editions.cnn.com, however, the page loads fine. It only seems to happen with the US CNN site. This still happens with Personal News disabled in the Sidebar and even with the Sidebar completely disabled.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/205896https://forums.opera.com/post/205896Thu, 09 Apr 2020 13:38:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unexpected Sidebar on Thu, 09 Apr 2020 13:26:30 GMT]]>Thanks for your help on this.

When I type cnn.com into the address field and then hit enter I get the standard (expected) CNN front page. This lasts for about a second and then the view changes to the Opera Preferences (See Below) and another unknown CNN page. My default search engine is Duck-Duck-Go.

This started happening a few days ago, and happens every time using Opera.

This does not happen when searching from address bar of another browser (Foxfire) with same Duck-Duck-Co search engine.

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]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/205884https://forums.opera.com/post/205884Thu, 09 Apr 2020 13:26:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Unexpected Sidebar on Thu, 09 Apr 2020 03:59:41 GMT]]>Are you searching from the address field? If so, what search engine to you have set as your default. Is the "," before "com" important? I assume so. Otherwise, if it was a ".", Opera wouldn't do a search and would go to cnn.com. Are you typing "g " before the search term in the address field to specifically search Google? Or, are you searching in the search field on the start page?

Does this happen every time?

I tried a bunch of different ways and can't reproduce the problem.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/205842https://forums.opera.com/post/205842Thu, 09 Apr 2020 03:59:41 GMT