<![CDATA[Random Websites Spontaneously Open in Tabs]]>Hi.

Out of nowhere, a tab spontaneously opened and took me to a website. I didn't do anything that would make this happen. (I had a similar problem with a Toyota dealership a couple months ago. Deleting all my cookies and doing a complete reinstall seemed to have fixed it.)

Here's the website:
https://avengers.square-enix-games.com/en-us/buy-now/?utm_source=280877456&utm_medium=136992872&utm_campaign=DV360_24544696_Launch_VideoSK_Programmatic_CPLPV_US-EN_AudienceBuying&utm_term=mav_amz_01_DV360_Liquid

Is there something in the source code that explains why this is happening? Do I have a security issue? If this keeps happening, I'll have to consider moving to Firefox because Chrome can $@#*%! itself.

I'm running Privacy Badger and Ghostery. My antivirus program didn't find anything when I ran a complete system scan.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/44310/random-websites-spontaneously-open-in-tabsRSS for NodeFri, 13 Mar 2026 18:33:30 GMTFri, 16 Oct 2020 23:19:55 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Random Websites Spontaneously Open in Tabs on Sat, 17 Oct 2020 05:09:38 GMT]]>@linchpinning said in Random Websites Spontaneously Open in Tabs:

In my cookies, there was one for rktch.com, which is a site I never went to, so no idea how they set a cookie

It can be from another page you have visited.

And Ngnix is, as far as I know, just a webserver software.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/229277https://forums.opera.com/post/229277Sat, 17 Oct 2020 05:09:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Random Websites Spontaneously Open in Tabs on Sat, 17 Oct 2020 02:54:02 GMT]]>@leocg It wasn't. Opera wasn't even the forefront application when it happened. Slack was.

In my cookies, there was one for rktch.com, which is a site I never went to, so no idea how they set a cookie. Out of curiosity, I went there and saw this:

Screen Shot 2020-10-16 at 7.34.23 PM.png

(I didn't further configure anything.)

Then I found this blurb at a tech site.

Ngnix is the main culprit responsible for random redirects and spontaneous opening of new tabs with the advertising content.

I also have a bunch of .ru cookies, which I deleted and added to my Block list in settings/content/cookies. No idea how I acquired those either.

I hope this fixes the problem and prevents it from happening again.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/229270https://forums.opera.com/post/229270Sat, 17 Oct 2020 02:54:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Random Websites Spontaneously Open in Tabs on Sat, 17 Oct 2020 02:20:10 GMT]]>@linchpinning When that tab opened up? I wonder if it wasn't just an ad.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/229269https://forums.opera.com/post/229269Sat, 17 Oct 2020 02:20:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Random Websites Spontaneously Open in Tabs on Sat, 17 Oct 2020 01:58:54 GMT]]>@leocg I use Bitdefender, but their "web protection" browser extension doesn't cover Opera. Makes me wonder if running a regular scan on my laptop will subsequently miss Opera malware.

As for other extensions, I'm not which it could be. They've all been installed for years with no problems until a few months ago.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/229266https://forums.opera.com/post/229266Sat, 17 Oct 2020 01:58:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Random Websites Spontaneously Open in Tabs on Sat, 17 Oct 2020 01:25:34 GMT]]>@linchpinning It can be from some extension or it can be from some malware.

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