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A few weeks ago YT started nagging me to turn off Opera's ad blocker. Naturally I ignored it, but now they appear to have found a means to disable or circumvent the ad blocker, so I'm back to being constantly bombarded with mindless, time-wasting, repetitive ads.
Anyone else having this problem? More importantly, is there a way to overcome it? Other than coughing up the subscription, of course. And yes, the ad blocking is still turned on in Settings.
Thanks.
@leocg I hesitate to get bogged down in semantics, but the following sentence, "We're... determined to fix this" clearly contradicts your "working as designed" assertion.
@leocg Sorry, I really can't accept that. In the thread you referred me to above, on the same topic, two years ago the Opera representative @kmielczarczyk says:
"We should do better. We're looking into this issue and are determined to fix this."
The pinboards header still shows "beta" (if you know where to look and use a magnifying glass).
As for using sync, to quote my original post:
"I disabled sync after attempts to sync my Android phone to the PC resulted in many hundreds of bookmarks on the PC being wiped and replaced by the few older ones on the phone."
Now I can't even get sync to work at all, and as often as not can't even access my Opera account because it throws a tantrum ("Sorry, an error occurred") when I enter my email address correctly. After scanning the QR code (having backed up bookmrks) there is no field to enter the numeric code from the phone and I get another unhelpful error message.
All this would be brilliant if it worked properly, but why does it have to be so difficult? Especially for those of us who struggle with all this confusing stuff?
@leocg Thanks, but two years later this still hasn't been fixed and is still catching out mugs like me who don't notice the tiny word "beta". That's disgraceful. And still no warning of this serious flaw despite so many complaints? I shouldn't have thought that would require much time or effort.
Talk about spoiling the ship for a ha'porth of tar. Destroying the credibility of an otherwise excellent product in this way and creating such a nightmare for users' is just plain stupid.
Still, thanks again for your help. And is there any way to recover the lost pinboards? I still have the bookmark.bak file from before this disaster occurred, but renaming it and restarting the browser has not restored the lost pinboards.
@leocg Is this what you mean by "cleaning sites' data on exit"?
Settings:
"Clear cookies and site data when you quit Opera"
Found this in the settings and it is switched on.
Really appreciate your help with this.
@leocg Yes, as far as I'm aware. What else might you expect?
I'd only started using pinboards a couple of days prior. Thought it a brilliant idea, created 5 or 6, and put several open tabs in each to clear the clutter of so many open tabs, now the whole lot's been obliterated.
@leocg Sorry to contradict, but that's exactly what happened. I don't even know how to "clean" sites. I simply closed Opera and all other programmes for routine PC maintenance. So far I've wasted an entire evening and morning trying to recover them.
The instructions for pinboards do not warn that they will be arbitrarily deleted when Opera is closed. Consequently I've lost a lot of essential links to web pages I'd previously kept as individual tabs.
The only useful thread I've found on this topic suggests they could be recoverable from synced data. However, I disabled sync after attempts to sync my Android phone to the PC resulted in many hundreds of bookmarks on the PC being wiped and replaced by the few older ones on the phone.
I'd be very grateful to anyone who can suggest how to overcome these issues.
Couldn't agree more. I have that trouble (tinkering for the sake of it) with Thunderbird, so tend not to update if I can help it. Ditto FF—still keep an ancient version (56) for a single purpose, because updating makes a mess of Roboform that I'm not clever enough to resolve. Cheers from NZ.
Thanks ledsalesoz. A small comfort to learn that I'm not the only one with this maddening issue. As you say, why would any sync software overwrite newer files with older? On that basis, it seems likely that deleting all the phone bookmarks would simply result in all the PC bookmarks being wiped. I've wasted too much time repeatedly restoring the PC bookmarks, and I'm really not adept at this sort of thing.
Such a shame they can't (or won't) get this right. It's brilliant when it works, but a nightmare otherwise. Seems like a case of spoiling the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
When I first installed Opera I had no trouble syncing my Android phone to the PC. At some stage it stopped working, and now when I try to sync via the QR code it copies the old bookmarks from the phone and overwrites the newer ones on the PC, when I want to do the opposite. This is driving me mad. Is it possible to force it to sync from the computer to the phone? Would deleting all bookmarks on the phone do it?
Thanks!
Thanks, nimeshthakkar, but I'm afraid the fact that it works for you doesn't help me. The Windows and Android versions of Opera appear unable to talk to each other, or only at cross-purposes. Logging into the account isn't the issue, but why does the PC keep taking me to that (regardless of whether or not I'm already logged in) instead to displaying the six-digit confirmation code? It makes no sense.
In the past I've been able to sync my android phone to the PC, so that the bookmarks on the phone match those on the PC. Now it just doesn't work. On the PC I click MyFlow and Reveal the QR code, scan it with the phone, which then brings up a confirmation number and says "follow the instruction on the PC". But there are no instructions on the PC, instead it goes to my Opera account main page (or to log in if not already).
Over multiple attempts I did once manage to get it synced, but perversely the PC synced to the phone, not the other way around. This deleted all my recent PC bookmarks and I had to do a full image restore of the PC to get them back.
Grateful for any help to get around this maddening problem. This is a brilliant feature if only I could get it to work, as it has in the past.
Thanks!
Many thanks burnout.
Yes, I am synching with Opera on the mobile 'phone. Is this what's preventing the cookie data from being wiped? I would have thought deleting on one device would do so on the other.
Most of the time the sync works seamlessly (eg. for bookmarks) without my having to do anything, but sometimes it stumbles and I have to scan the QR code to update it. I've no idea why this should occur.
Appreciate your help.
Opera 94.0.4606.76
Win 7 Home Premium
I have set the option to "Clear cookies and site data when you quit Opera", but it's not happening. Neither does the "Clear All Data" button work, and clearing them all individually is a time-consuming chore. I've found some cookies dating from months ago even thought the browser is shut down at least once per week.
I found an old thread on this problem, but all posters claimed that everything cleared when Opera was closed, which clearly doesn't cover my problem.
Thanks in anticipation.
For convenience I keep a bookmarks tab open in one workspace. For some reason it likes to revert to a folder in the bookmarks list that I use only infrequently. Is there a way to change this behaviour, preferably by nominating a default bookmarks folder? Not for saving addresses to, but for locating existing bookmarks.
Latest Opera version on desktop PC running Win7 Home 64-bit.
Thanks!
Really? That's a serious omission from an otherwise outstanding browser. So many slick and convenient functions and yet something as elementary as this is missing?
Anyway, thanks for a quick response and saving me from wasting any more time looking for something that's not there.
I can find no way to set what application should be opened when a link is clicked, eg. MS Word for .doc files, Foxit for .pdf, etc. Opera just downloads the file, but i don't want the PC cluttered up with files i don't want to keep, neither do I want the fag of finding and opening them.
Surely there is a way to assign default applications?
Thanks.
Opera version 80.0.4170.63, Win7 Home.