@likoki5980 Somehow I forgot to unsub from these posts, which I'll do in a sec, but for me the issue was not one of there being a workaround but more one of them forcing something down my throat. There's plenty of fish in the sea browsers around, so I've long moved away from Opera and will probably not return. The end user should always be in control of their software, so this was a very crap move on their part.

Well done Opera... I've been ignoring this for a while as I never had the time to google a solution for this annoyance but forcing extensions down one's throat is just not right. I have a zillion extensions I never installed not ever use and now I'm removing Opera altogether as I decide what's on my computer, and there's plenty of other good browsers out there... Used to be an Opera fan but with these built-in extensions that keep re-appearing no matter how many times you "hide" them, that's just the final drop... Moving on to less obtrusive browsers.

@likoki5980 Somehow I forgot to unsub from these posts, which I'll do in a sec, but for me the issue was not one of there being a workaround but more one of them forcing something down my throat. There's plenty of fish in the sea browsers around, so I've long moved away from Opera and will probably not return. The end user should always be in control of their software, so this was a very crap move on their part.

Well done Opera... I've been ignoring this for a while as I never had the time to google a solution for this annoyance but forcing extensions down one's throat is just not right. I have a zillion extensions I never installed not ever use and now I'm removing Opera altogether as I decide what's on my computer, and there's plenty of other good browsers out there... Used to be an Opera fan but with these built-in extensions that keep re-appearing no matter how many times you "hide" them, that's just the final drop... Moving on to less obtrusive browsers.