Something that Operates qualified for basically being an experiment, the alternative browser was showing ads on the Netflix web for some of its users. What’s interesting here is that advertising is one of the new rivals most important of Netflix: Disney+.
The other interesting thing is the way in which they are showing the ads, as overlays just above the interface of Netflix so nothing discreet, and that we can qualify as questionable. Opera says that this was a limited trial and that it has already been stopped, but not without discomfort and outrage to their users.
Intrusive ads in a browser that comes with adblocker
There are a lot of complaints that we can find on Twitter the last few days on these ads than the users of Opera began to see to access Netflix from the browser. And is that are located in a sector large enough for the upper-left corner of the screen.
look what my browser #opera just did when I tried to open #netflix …. to #DisneyPlus ad appeared … pic.twitter.com/mciZHPfDBj
— Michail Ostrowski (@schifty1988) March 25, 2020
Whoa @opera … WTF is this? Are you inserting an ad for Disney+ on top of my Netflix login screen? That's really not ok. pic.twitter.com/sb3vB0iPLJ
— Aram Zucker-Scharff (@Chronotope) March 28, 2020
Disney+ ads pop up in the top left in Opera now automatically if you open https://t.co/rx4Ti3I14q XD
(in before everyone goes crazy at me for using a different browser from them) pic.twitter.com/fF31GINpnK
— pika3 (@pikathree) March 28, 2020
According to this user that shows a screenshot in Android, the thing is even worse in the mobile version of Opera. The advertisement cover more than half of the screen.
This also happens on Opera for Android. pic.twitter.com/2ZOzdrG1MJ
— Bradley Farless (@BradleyF81) March 29, 2020
We cannot avoid thinking of the double standards that this mean, especially because Opera is a web browser which boasts of having an ad blocker built-inbut at the same time try to do business with advertising and by resorting to practices like this.
It is one thing to display ads on the home page, something that is also doing Opera with Disney+ inserting ads in the new tab page, a space of our own, and another very different is basically hijack a segment of a different website like Netflix to display advertisingthat step is to a direct rival.
Hey @opera Bros, how many times do I have to decline the pop-up ads in your Browser for Disney+ before I stop receiving them?
— Bradley Farless (@BradleyF81) March 29, 2020
@opera
if I see another Disney banner appear on my starting page, I change the browser!
😒— minodesign (@minodesign) March 25, 2020
@opera guys, inlove your mobile browser and i recommend it to my friends, but these enforced Disney channel overlays could change that very quickly.
— Michael Grey (@Mikes005) March 29, 2020
Is anyone using the browser opera? Mine seems to have started spamming me with with suggesting I join Disney+ – I thought these people were able to see what what I am actually interested in. I would like not to see these ads every time I open a new tab. Any ideas?
— Elizabeth Hilliard (@sothisisliz) March 25, 2020
Goddammit Operates, I already told you no! pic.twitter.com/WtRn130xTM
— Network-Rachel (@RachRua) March 26, 2020
Er … Screw this … @opera just advertised disney+ in my new tab page … Even if I wanted the service … NOT! Very bad.
Between this, it's still adding back tiles that are clearly advertising … and no ability to default startpage … i'm done. What an awful experience. pic.twitter.com/buQPbEM5dO
— Eliot Cole (@cole_eliot) March 26, 2020
@opera Why are you dropping Disney shite onto my speed dial? Will you please stop that? pic.twitter.com/sIjKg4sa1d
— Glenn Coutts #SupportAlexSalmond #ClearOutTheCabal (@GlennCoutts) March 25, 2020
The complaints on Twitter were quite a few, but they stopped about three days. Experiment or not, Operates angered more than one user with this. Interestingly, the people of Vivaldi and the fans of the Brave lost no time in be entered in more than one of these tweets to take advantage of and planted as alternatives.
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Opera has been showing to some users advertising Disney+ on top of the Netflix web
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