@leocg thanks again, the root of the problem was someone mentioning somewhere a week ago that the Opera browser had been totally redesigned from scratch as an AI system (rather than just a ordinary human designed program with an AI option).

Thanks for clearing that up although I do wish the PC opera would with regain the capacity to not be updated.

Cheers

@leocg thank you Leo.

So you're saying I'm misunderstanding or confusing the Android app (in which I know I can choose to use Aria and I don't) and can also now update and choose the fully ai-based Android app, which I don't want).

I thought that the PC version was also fully AI based already, (like the new Android app), which I do not want.!

If the PC version is not fully ai-based now, it probably will be soon. That keeps my issue relevant because I can't stop opera on PC from automatically downloading and installing the latest version currently, unless something changes, when the new version of opera ai-based comes out, I'll have to wind up abandoning uninstalling opera once again.

Have I got that right

As a loyal user of opera for 25 years the fact that I am forced now to upgrade to an AI system leads me feeling resentful, and has forced me to switch over to Firefox and uninstall Opera from my PC (some here may not yet realize that it is impossible not only to resist an upgrade, but efforts to prevent an upgrade by deleting the Opera upgrade's modules in the installed folder repeatedly fail and automatically re upgrades you to the AI browser. Even so far as blocking those modules with Komodo firewall blocking rules does not work. (BTW, the Android Opera browser does not Force the update to the new operating system).

The jury may still be out on whether an AI civilization is safe for humanity as a whole, but I for one steadfastly remain on the cautious side of that existential issue.

Moreover as one who prioritizers his privacy in a world where it is rapidly evaporating, and also being forcibly stripped in from us in both public and private places, the consumption of my personal life details, activities and interests by a machine designed to learn, aggregate and integrate all manner of information into a collective sphere in order to make itself an perfectly informed entity, is unacceptable to me. And you will not easily convince me that somehow your OS does, or will remain, sandboxed from the rest of the internet. "Oops, sorry we had a data breach and are doing everything we can to restore our integrity".

I demand of Opera developers and management that they consult with their conscience and thereby facilitate the restoration of one's privacy (at least to a degree) by avoiding assimilation with "The Borg" by using Opera's browser

I was astonished today when a website tried to encourage me to become a subscriber and a window popped up with the last four digits of one of my credit cards, which I never have told opera to save!

I have Opera installed on my PC but once again would never have had Any Browse save my credit card information (and I rarely use the PC Opera on my PC nowadays.

How do I clear it out other than using the global "clear All autofill" option?
Thanks

Opera was giving me problems getting stuck loading pages for about a week and it became unbearable so I uninstalled the app downloaded version 49 .02361 and logged in and found my bookmarks but my off-line pages and speed dials have disappeared . Is there a way to recover them ? I didn't take notes off the previous version of Opera but I keep updates on for everything so I should have had the latest iteration installed.

Running OnePlus 3T , operating system- oxygen 5.06 /android 8.0