It's pretty clear by this point that this "experiment" is a big fat fail, please let it die.

I'm using Opera on my phone and computer, and have been using it since it was paid/ad supported. Lately it feels like the devs are forcing more and more crap onto the users, with more and more incentive for users to switch platform.

Ads are necessary, I get it, but lately I see three topics, an almost full page ad, three more topics, then another almost full page ad.

50% of the real estate taken up by ads is a bit excessive wouldn't you agree? Sync stopped working quite a while back, please don't give people another reason to jump ship.

The old way of showing it only on speed dial page was good, the new way of either showing all the time or hiding all the time is stupid

Why keep fixing things that aren't broken until they are broken?

At one point recently we could expand it to show more than three, now that's also gone.

And it doesn't even show the most recent three tabs, it seems to pick and choose on what closed tabs to show, and quite frequently the one I want isn't in it even though I just closed it 30 seconds ago.

Why?

I've posted this before which fell on deaf ears, so here we go again.

The amount of ads inserted into newsfeed is just insane now. I know you have to appease to the new Chinese overlords but this is getting ridiculous. Look at this screenshot I took below, 50% of the real estate is devoted to ads, 50%! Would anybody even visit a site that's composted of 50% ads?

I've been using Opera since it was a paid software, but between it being sold to Chinese company and the insane ads, it's getting harder and harder to continue.

The old way of showing it only on speed dial page was good, the new way of either showing all the time or hiding all the time is stupid

Why keep fixing things that aren't broken until they are broken? Did Opera fire the entire design team and hire a bunch of complete newbies? Many of the recent design changes completely baffles me,

And how many times do I need to click on "dismiss" before Opera gets a clue that I have absolutely zero interest in getting spammed with commercial every time I start the app?

Sometimes I need to cache a few pages on my laptop then view them when no wifi is available. I used to be able to just switch on offline mode, but since the new chromopera versions, the browser would try to reload the page when I click on "forward" and "back", then tell me it's not available.

Is there a way to do it in the newer versions?

@leocg Disabled as well ("Opera notifications" within in app settings).

Regardless of settings, the fact I'm 5000 km away from England and clicked on "dismiss" multiple times should be enough to stop it.

@leocg Disabled as well ("Opera notifications" within in app settings).

Regardless of settings, the fact I'm 5000 km away from England and clicked on "dismiss" multiple times should be enough to stop it.

@leocg

No, news is disabled, as well as any promotional content I can find in settings.

@leocg said in WTH is EPL matchday?:

When and where are you seeing that?

Bottom of speed dial almost every day when opening browser.

Press dismiss only for it to come back next day.

The funny thing about this debacle is on actual youtube video it pretends to respect whatever by auto mute the video and require you to click on it, even though the ad immediately preceding it blasts at full volume automatically.

And how many times do I need to click on "dismiss" before Opera gets a clue that I have absolutely zero interest in getting spammed with commercial every time I start the app?

@leocg said in Adblocker Reborn for Opera:

@Lord-Blizzard It works here.

@U1traVio1et said in Adblocker Reborn for Opera:

@leocg said in Adblocker Reborn for Opera:

@Lord-Blizzard It works here.

Same here

I guess you don't watch youtube, because Opera's adblocker work on neither pre-roll video ads nor banner ads.

@Zappy-Owl But there is a reason free VPN has limits and sells premium subscriptions, they have to make money. Opera has too, so it's unrealistic to expect them to offer free VPN with same level of service as a paid provider.

Doesn't private window already do exactly what you ask?

They cost money to run and you are getting it for free. As a user I don't think they should be allocating more resources for that when there are so many dedicated VPN providers out there.

I've noticed that the build in ad blocker doesn't work on youtube, the pre-roll video ads very frequently get through and banner ads is always there.

It's less noticeable on desktop if I have only build in blocker active. 3rd party extension like ublock origin completely remove any youtube ads however.

Is this an failure on build in adblocker or did Opera make some sort of deal with google to not block their ads?