Ads on opera startpage on mobile

Lenny_Fox

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I used Opera since december 2019 on my smartphone. Now it started to show ads on the speed dial page while using duck duck go as search engine.

Anyone noticed those popunder ads also?

Replaced Opera with Brave on my phone with startpage as search engine (and block javascript on [*.]startpage.com to block startpage ads)
 
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stefanos

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I used Opera since december 2019 on my smartphone. Now it started to show ads on the new tab page while using duck duck go as search engine.

Anyone noticed those popunder ads also?

Replaced Opera with Brave on my phone with startpage as search engine (and block javascript on [*.]startpage.com to block startpage ads)
I have not ads. I used Opera to my smartphone and to my tablet. But i use google as search engine
 

Divine_Barakah

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I had adblock enbled, but the popunders came from speeddial not from new tab page (corrected first post).
There is an option in the settings to turn off "promoted speed dials". I have always disabled it and have set show new to "never". I have always disabled "continue shopping and booking blah blah"

Also Opera has a default list excluded from adblocking
 

upnorth

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I always have adblock enabled on both the phone and desktop version. It's highly recommended and I also use speeddial and the same search engine.
There is an option in the settings to turn off "promoted speed dials". I have always disabled it and have set show new to "never". I have always disabled "continue shopping and booking blah blah"
Can you please help and show where that settings are located? I'm curious.
 

Divine_Barakah

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Perfect. Waiting...
Here are the settings to be changed

Adblocker exceptions.PNGDelete those.PNGNews based on history.PNGnever.PNGSpeed dial.PNG
 

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