@dunjineer said in Relentlessly shoving Facebook Messenger in my face:

I hate Facebook and their policies with user data, which are the antithesis of privacy and user respect. I always turn off their services in the Opera side chat widget bar thing, and repeatedly I get a pop-up asking me to sign in or sign up.
I close it and delete/hide it.
It pops up again a few weeks/months later when I start opera again.
I posted a bug report about this, and mentioned it in a review. Clearly Facebook's ad/signup money is more important to Opera developers than it's users' sanity. remembering that Opera claims to have an "automatic ad-blocker" is the insult added to this injuiry.
this, coupled with other policy changes I noticed(automatically turning on some "safe" advertisers and other hidden user setting changes I catch here and there, very simply made me lose trust in Opera software, and the good intentions of its policy makers.

I just finished downloading Firefox. Good bye Opera, it's been mostly good while it lasted the past couple of years.

Yes I agree with you.