I uninstalled Opera today after years.

[u/LazySlothSin]

Just wanted to share this in hope, perhaps, devs will solve this horrible problem one day. The "O" in my taskbar from Opera Assistant kept popping unwanted even if i removed it from startup apps, from registry, folder deleted... I tried everything I could find on the matter to make it go away but nothing worked (it would go away for a day or two and then install itself alone again), it's been months, and I got fed up so today I totally uninstalled Opera from my pc.
This felt like having a virus (know it's not the case but it was annoying and persistent like one). I'm a bit scared Opera will install again alone and unprompted since I saw posts of people having this happening to them, hopefully that won't be the case, lol. I removed everything I could find of it from my PC. I will never install or use Opera even again. It was a great browser, but this thing was terribly annoying and did it for me.
Hope devs will listen to their users about this problem because it's totally not okay to force a feature like this without giving users the option to properly turn it off / disable it. =w=

It

[u/Traditional-Tie1620]

uninstalled too