@burnout426 I have gone through all of those pages before, and tried to disable anything that seemed relevant. Now I've turned off "Help improve Opera by sending feature usage information" and I'll see if that was their sneaky way of saying "let us monetize your shopping by selling your info and being an affiliate without telling you."

@leocg Thanks. Figured it was something easy, just didn't know about pinning panels.

Opening a tool (whatsapp) on the sidebar used to pop out sideways as an overlay. It could cover part of the screen (and how much was controlled by sliding the left side of the panel left or right). The screen as a whole stayed put.

Today I opened the browser and instead of covering it, it pushed it all to the side, so I now had a split screen. In the process it re-formatted everything on what is now the "right" screen instead of the "bottom" screen.

I can't find a way to change or disable this. Is it an option, or a forced new way of doing things?

@burnout426 I have gone through all of those pages before, and tried to disable anything that seemed relevant. Now I've turned off "Help improve Opera by sending feature usage information" and I'll see if that was their sneaky way of saying "let us monetize your shopping by selling your info and being an affiliate without telling you."

@leocg So a baked-in, impossible to disable aspect of Opera browser, is them tracking and hijacking your shopping online as affiliates?

@leocg Opera One

I have found few posts about this, but not zero. I have not found any answers.

Opera browser takes some URLs typed into the address bar like Amazon.com, Walmart.com, and homedepot.com, and by typing them in and hitting "enter" the URL is re-routed through another service (for example, to a go.magikly.ly/____ page) and then onto the typed in URL, but with a lot of what appears to be tracking URL added on to it.

For example, if I type in "Lowes.com" I end up at:
https://www.lowes.com/?irclickid=TdBUPGTQCxbcT3E1YvSbQUCJUkpWORx1PVOAqY0&irgwc=1&afsrc=1&cm_mmc=aff--c--prd--mdv--gdy--all--sitesuggest--95378--0
(modified to not be a real copy/paste but the format is the same).

And I have tested that this is not an extention doing this. And it happens only on Opera. It happens often, but not every single time.

Opera appears to re-route traffic to spending sites as an affiliate.

Is there a way to disable this? I'm not asking if Opera has in their terms of service if they are allowed to do this, they probably do. I just want to know if there is a way to turn it off.