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@longtimeuser yes it should work forever (or until they change how the affirm spam is deployed, say with another file elsewhere). I am at 21+ days (with this fix), a few new Opera updates have happened and my fix is still working for me. no more affirm popups anywhere and that file (affirm_whitelist.json) is still locked and empty at 0 bytes.
@ttlgs said in Affirm pop-up showing up on some shopping related pages:
@leocg I received this message from OPERA:
Dear User,
Thank you for your report!
We are aware of this issue and are currently investigating.
As a temporary fix I can suggest closing popup by clicking 'X' once and then restarting the browser.
Thank you for helping to improve Opera!
Best Regards,
Opera QA Team
yep i got the same dumb response. that doesn't work.
@ttlgs they responded to my bug report saying they are aware of it and told me something dumb like close the ad and restart the browser. haha. like that would work.
@ttlgs great too hear. that may be all that is needed. depends on what all opera has programed into their software to do. i went above and beyond by basically hard locking the file. i can't even delete it or edit it myself. lol. i would need to add myself back into the files permission list.
@donq Edge is a great browser, I use it as my prefered backup browser. However, if I need to use a non-chromium based browser I use Pale Moon.
@mewquest also check the read-only attribute. this fix has been working for me for 12 hours+ have rebooted pc to confirm my fix is working properly. wipe contents (with text editor) of C:\Users<your username here>\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\affirm_whitelist.json keeping the file intact. take ownership of file (if you are not already the owner). remove inheritage of file with the checkbox "include inheritable permissions from this object's parent". then remove all groups and users from the file. then check the read-only attribute. opera can now no longer access this file as you are the sole owner and even you can't really do anything with the file. you'd need to add permissions back into the file for you to modify it (or delete it).
@artyem thanks so much this worked +1 , but instead of deleting it i wiped the contents the file (with notepad or NFOpad or your fav text editor), then i removed all permissions to the file and became the sole owner i did this to prevent opera from just recreating the file by adding the contents back in (which it did within a mintute). you need to uncheck "include inheritable permissions from this object's parent" then remove everyone from premissions.
@ttlgs the above instructions should work as they did for me here are some picture of my work
@donq its not. it loads in incognito with all entensions disabled. it is an ad built into the browser, opera even watermarked it.
@mewquest i disabled every single flag in opera://flags , and it still loaded. this seems to be a built into the browser ad that cannot be disabled.
every single page i load on ebay.com has this dumb popup that is apart of the browser it doesn't matter if i close it it always loads back up when i load a new ebay page. how do i disable it completely? this wasn't a problem until today for some reason.
it says it is
chrome://affirm-gateway/