Nowadays, some news sites are composed of clickable links entirely. Simply, there is barely any space where I could place the mouse cursor that is not a link by design.

And on these sites, I frequently run into a problem with Opera as it follows (e.g. clicks) automatically and without user interaction the first link where I let the mouse rest for 3 seconds or so.

Is there a way to turn this behavior off, by settings, via extension?

Many thanks for any advice!