Affirm pop-up showing up on some shopping related pages
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mbaresi last edited by
thanks for going to the trouble of posting that detailed solution but for old guys like me thats nothing but gibberish and I don't have the time or will to research and learn what you have suggested.
Sorry and thanks again.
Anyway why the hell should anyone have to go thru that to rid themselves of an advertiser that has no respect for the people subjected to this ad? F Affirm and their disrespectful popups !
I'm sick of advertisers in this country and on the internet that think the way to gain business is to subject people to a constant barrage of their BS.
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JD401 last edited by leocg@artyem said in Affirm pop-up showing up on some shopping related pages:
resolved it by deleteing the file "affirm_whitelist.json" in the AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable directory
So Far, this has worked for me as well. Will it Stay fixed? Time will tell, as I haven't been on the computer much today.
Note: The first time I deleted that file, it didn't solve the issue. So I decided to do a search within Windows Explorer for anything with Affirm in it, and found two more instances of that file! So in all I deleted 3 instances of it, and again, So Far, so good!
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MewQuest last edited by@ttlgs great too hear. that may be all that is needed. depends on what all opera has programed into their software to do. i went above and beyond by basically hard locking the file. i can't even delete it or edit it myself. lol. i would need to add myself back into the files permission list.
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ttlgs last edited by
@leocg I received this message from OPERA:
Dear User,
Thank you for your report!
We are aware of this issue and are currently investigating.
As a temporary fix I can suggest closing popup by clicking 'X' once and then restarting the browser.
Thank you for helping to improve Opera!
Best Regards,
Opera QA Team -
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MewQuest last edited by
@ttlgs said in Affirm pop-up showing up on some shopping related pages:
@leocg I received this message from OPERA:
Dear User,
Thank you for your report!
We are aware of this issue and are currently investigating.
As a temporary fix I can suggest closing popup by clicking 'X' once and then restarting the browser.
Thank you for helping to improve Opera!
Best Regards,
Opera QA Teamyep i got the same dumb response. that doesn't work.
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A Former User last edited by
That's it! I cleaned my registry of <affirm>, cleaned all instances of <affirm> in my user directories, in Windows.... rebooted each time, after a couple of browsing, Lowes, Home Depots, eBay, Amazon.... etc..... Spent too much time trying to fix this, while the Chinese are busy being productive. Off to Firefox land. Bye bye Opera.
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A Former User last edited by leocg
Affirm issue: Poof! Uninstalled. Opera is gone.
Firefox is now default. Reinstalled Roboform, EditThisCookie, added my VPN.... all running smooth and faster (know not why faster!?) Maybe as I add extensions, it might slowdown. Thank you Opera for making me look. All my best wishes.
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DaveyB last edited by
Bye Bye Opera. Had to create an account to post this but not standing for this crap
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A Former User last edited by
@mewquest This one worked for me, I edite permissions and so far nothing has returned. Seems to permanently disable the Affirm popup
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MewQuest last edited by
@longtimeuser yes it should work forever (or until they change how the affirm spam is deployed, say with another file elsewhere). I am at 21+ days (with this fix), a few new Opera updates have happened and my fix is still working for me. no more affirm popups anywhere and that file (affirm_whitelist.json) is still locked and empty at 0 bytes.
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dredman last edited by
Has this always been in Settings:
The "Display promotional notifications" was enabled when I checked after the affirm popup breached my annoyance threshold. I unchecked it and restarted Opera. I didn't see the popup when I reloaded the site I was on. Granted that's only one data point, but I didn't see any other mention of Promotional other than @ttlgs comment
