Get Rid of Opera Mini News and Ads on Android Lockscreen
Get rid of lock screen news by Opera Mini
Opera Mini browser is a nice app that can help easily and safely change IP to another country to visit a blocked website and save your mobile data when in roaming using its unique page compression feature. But as any freeware app it has a backside – annoying ads and news.
Often people cannot understand where those ads on the lock screen came from. Yeah, Opera Mini is able to show you annoying unwanted content and you can be surprised greatly when you are unlocking your phone or tablet.
Here is how to disable news option in Opera Mini app settings to get rid of ads and news on Android lock screen and start page within the browser itself.
Get rid of lock screen “top news” by Opera Mini
Follow the steps to get rid of ads and “news” in Opera Mini start page:
Launch the Opera Mini app.
Tap the Opera button:
Touch the gear icon to open browser’s settings:
Go to Start page content:
Here disable News – just touch the toggle to disable lockscreen ads in Opera:
Now tap the Back button on your Android device.
Enter the Notifications settings:
Here disable everything:
Done! No more news on the start page or lock screen of your Android device.
But be advised that Opera Mini will still be able to continue showing intermediate pages with advertisements. This kind of pages show up when you click on the link on any website.
First you see the advertising and only then the browser loads the page you expect to see. Such a shame.
If you have anything interesting to add concerning the problem, drop a few lines in the comments!
Adam Swift
Adam is a real tech maniac. He likes to spend time testing phones, tablets, laptops, as well as any other technical devices, and write practical manuals on their functions. He often sleeps all day, but always works at night. Adam bought his first computer in 1999, being an absolute beginner who never held a computer mouse in his hands. He began to study Windows, constantly experimented and often crashed the operating system. But six months later, he was able to reinstall Windows 98 from a scratch on his own, fix almost any software problem on a PC, he also did hardware upgrades and realized that computers, operating systems and programs are now his biggest passion. In addition, Adam has always been a big lover of phones. With the advent of smartphones with Android OS, he began to pick at them much more than in computers. Now Adam loves to study privacy issues in instant messengers, blocking unwanted calls and other nuances related to privacy and security on the network. You can follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tunecomp
View Comments
It can not accept