Opera News: breaking & local
Get global and local news as it happens, wherever you are.
Total ratings
4.50
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Good for local news
- Interactive and user-friendly layout
- Ability to download articles for offline reading
- Offers a variety of content and topics
Cons
- Aggressive and loud ads
- Inconsistent performance with notifications and messages
- Content organization and layout can be messy
- Technical support is unresponsive
Most mentioned
- Issues with ads
- Notification management problems
- Content quality and relevance concerns
- User interface and experience difficulties
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2.40
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-26 |  | | It is an excellent app. It does a great job of presenting national and local news topics. However, there are two issues. 1 .There are endless and agressive Tik Tok ads. 2. I can see that i have a few messages. However when i click messages, it always says "empty". |
| 2024-02-21 |  | | Block function does not work. When you block someone, you still get notifications of their replies. What's the use in having a block function? This app sucks. When people reply, you can see it in your notifications but when you click on it, there's never anything there. Then the app shows that people haven't posted for weeks when they replied to uou a day ago. Tech support is useless. They say email them and they'll fix problems. You never hear from them. Deleting this app immediately |
| 2024-01-21 |  | | Generally good, but suffers the same fate as most news aggregators - obtrusive ads. I don't mind watching ads, but don't take over my device to show me ads, and worse, don't play ads full volume when my phone is set to silent. One other baffling issue with the app is whenever I try to download articles, the app refuses saying 'no network found'. Last time I checked cell phone data constituted a valid network. I don't understand the requirement to only work on wifi. Baffling. Edit - Uninstalled |
| 2023-02-07 |  | | Its good for local news, bad for world news. The notifications are always unimportant, there are few settings you can adjust, can't control how many old downloads are kept, not everything is in a digest format. Any notifications the timer resets so it always looks new. I want to see breaking news in the notify bar, not fluff pieces or click bait. Which it mostly all is. Can't remove news stations and there are few interesting ones. |
| 2023-01-31 |  | | Everything is Awesome , Except the pop up adds . tic tic will come on full blast when your trying to do something else. it just gets in the Damn way. enough to almost change your mind about the app. same goes for the phone security app . then you have to wait till it's done before the X comes in to play to remove it. Nerve racking at times. according how you feel at the time. |
| 2023-01-23 |  | | Ads are way too aggressive, make app unusable. I read one article, get blasted in the face with a loud app for TikTok, and can't navigate back to news feed. Literally can not use this app. Also, settings are unnecessarily difficult to access. Push notifications continue after I disable them. Could be a great news app but it's completely ruined by terrible user experience decisions. |
| 2022-12-20 |  | | Bizarre! - I mistakenly downloaded the app only to read years-old dated news; why would they do this- it makes no sense. Then, it appears to have introduced a malware into my system and probably encompassing spyware as well as, we learn, the Opera News (notice there are two entirely different entities using the same name) is owned by the Chinese. |
| 2022-10-19 |  | | Ok, I love the Opera News algorithm, because I want random notifications about news stories and editorials I would never get to read about. Even if the story isn't relevant to me, I can't help but entertain the clickbait. That being said, this app is unnecessary since I can find the story links on the Opera browser. And this app just blows up my phone with over a dozen notifications at a time! The Opera browser does more mildly and appropriately. There is no need to download this. |
| 2022-09-20 |  | | i was gonna delete the app at first cuz of all the notifications, but it does a really good job of balancing world, national, and local news topics; in addition to utilizing multiple, sometimes even obscure, local news sources, which i really appreciate and think is cool. the comment sections are filled with idiots but that's inevitable. clickbait and the lack of an option to have notifications open articles directly in the external browser of ur choice would be would be my biggest gripes. |
| 2022-09-04 |  | | Right now I'm giving you a low #...because I'm trying to read something and the choice of Open app.. versus Uninstall keeps popping up, preventing me from reading WHAT I WANT TO! So needless to say..you're rather low on my approved score 😠¡¡¡ Update..9-4-22 I'm so upset with the overwhelming barrage of ads!! Was just fighting my way through them, trying to follow a story! But between the 'Next' and the 'Continue' right after..I completely lost the story with no way of getting back to the story |
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