30
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Up to and including Opera 30 you could follow this link here which simply directs you to delete some .json
file containing the default search engines.
Starting today, with the latest Opera update 31.something, this trick does no longer work. If the default_partner_content.json
file is missing (or things are deleted from it), Opera will complain on startup and ask for a reinstall. Putting the file back in place restores Opera to working, but the default search engines are there obviously...
Has anyone found a new way to get rid of the default search engines?
(If I accidentally search that ridiculous yahoo again instead of youtube, as configured by me, I will lose my sh**.)
4And forgoing configurability is an important source of driving away the user base of the few % of super users they still have... – fgysin reinstate Monica – 2015-08-13T12:32:58.040
2The default Amazon and Bing searches aren't secure (https) in v34.0 here so security would be a poor excuse. – contrebis – 2016-01-18T10:52:44.960
1In fact, looking at the
default_partner_content.json
file, even more are redirected through http ad partner URLs so, yeah. Nice job Opera. – contrebis – 2016-01-18T10:58:24.620On OS X 10.11.3 & Opera 35.0, installation root does not contain
default_partner_content.json
. How to adapt this process to OS X? – thSoft – 2016-02-17T12:44:22.550@Marcin the same issue *installation root* doesn't contain any
default_partner_content.json
orprofile
folder – nazar_art – 2017-02-12T09:25:18.940@fgysin Attacking an income source of a gratis product from an ideological position shared by a small minority is futile. Privacy has become another currency, and virtually every human being blissfully pays with it day in day out. People have to re-learn that there is no such thing as a free lunch, and if they refuse to pay transparently with money, they pay in more obfuscated ways. If you'd like your privacy back, you'll have to educate Homo Ignorantis or achieve world domination. – Someone – 2017-08-01T14:26:28.837
2This is not about privacy - it is about usability and configurability. I have seen big projects (even companies) fail because they drove away users by sacrificing usability to ad revenues... I'd hate to see Opera go down this road. – fgysin reinstate Monica – 2017-08-02T09:00:56.467
i'm not seeing these paths in Mint 19 xfce – johny why – 2018-08-05T18:53:38.570
1Thank you so much! Confirms working for OSX 10.14.5 and Opera 62.0.3331.66. Finally! – zcahfg2 – 2019-07-23T09:40:37.673