In 2016, the company changed ownership when a group of Chinese investors purchased the web browser, the consumer business, and the Opera Software ASA brand. On 18 July 2016, Opera Software ASA announced it had sold its browser, privacy and performance apps, and the Opera brand to Golden Brick Capital Private Equity Fund I Limited Partnership, a consortium of Chinese investors.
Almost nobody I know uses Opera. For everyone, Firefox, Chrome, Edge and Brave (for Apple users Safari) are the more familiar browsers. It does not matter much. Opera uses Chromium as base anyway, so it does not matter. The only acceptable Chromium browsers are Ungoogled Chromium and Kiwi.
I know some who alternatively use the old Opera 12, but certainly no one who uses the current Opera, which only has the name in common with the old one.
Technically it is a good browser, but in China privacy is not in the vocabulary and the VPN is directly a fake.
Seems like you let your cat out of the bag. For China, privacy is secondary to prosperity, but they do have a GDPR style data protection law that is better than anything USA has, and actually does not commit the global spying or metadata based murders and overseas genocides that USA does. So that puts China above USA. FOSS community work is global, unless you want to brand it as Western work.
Privacy is kind of there, just not in the way it is in Anglosphere. Denying comprehending different forms of existence never works, like the pigeon cat story.
Because Opera sells data to different conglomerates of companies, like Verizon, which includes Yahoo and Yimg.com (can’t access because Yimg.com is flagged as malicious, by the way), also Hotjar (Website Heatmaps & Behavior Analytics).
It also sends information to Microsoft, Alphabet.Inc and Nest (Google advertising companies) as well as doubleclick.net, google-analytics.com, google.com, googletagmanager.com.
In other words, half the Internet companies know what you do with Opera, looking over your shoulder, adding that the free “VPN” logs all your browser history.
Thanks, no need for this.
And… not many people use Opera. And, why should I trust a closed source browser over something that is fully open source? Your arguments still make no sense, because features are replaceable in better ways, and features are not aiding privacy or security or (partial) anonymity of people.
You do not have to trust anything, it is simply absurd that at this point you trust a product when it says FOSS, resulting in the concept of FOSS having nothing to do with this concept, to remember that to trust a product other factors are necessary.
As I said before, also the APIs and other apps to track the user of big companies are FOSS and included in many other FOSS to earn money.
Vivaldi is freeware proprietary, but only because the UI scripts are, which are 100% auditable and modifiable by the user, which is not possible in Chrome, EDGE and Opera, there the Chromium layer is not auditable at all and completely closed source, this is the difference.
Firefox is a good browser and FOSS, but it passes user data to Alphabet and NEST, i.e. Google, for funding. In its development the company is oriented more to its own interests than to those of the users, which is why many abandon Firefox, even 2 distros have done so, now using Vivaldi as the default browser (Manjaro and FerenOS) other distros also play with this possibility and most already have Vivaldi in their repositories and many users have already done so, in the Vivaldi community more than half of users use Linux, because they know that Vivaldi does not traffic with their data, it is even active in campaigns against these practices .
They appreciate that when a bug appears, that the devs even work on Sundays to offer an update that fixes it.
This is what deserves trust, that some companies like Renault and PoleStar even have, to use it as the preferred browser for their products.
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The VPN isn’t such, it’s a proxie over the own Opera servers, currently Opera is the less private respecting browser, in Android the browser with the most trackers, even more as Chrome itself https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.opera.browser/latest/
Almost nobody I know uses Opera. For everyone, Firefox, Chrome, Edge and Brave (for Apple users Safari) are the more familiar browsers. It does not matter much. Opera uses Chromium as base anyway, so it does not matter. The only acceptable Chromium browsers are Ungoogled Chromium and Kiwi.
I know some who alternatively use the old Opera 12, but certainly no one who uses the current Opera, which only has the name in common with the old one. Technically it is a good browser, but in China privacy is not in the vocabulary and the VPN is directly a fake.
Seems like you let your cat out of the bag. For China, privacy is secondary to prosperity, but they do have a GDPR style data protection law that is better than anything USA has, and actually does not commit the global spying or metadata based murders and overseas genocides that USA does. So that puts China above USA. FOSS community work is global, unless you want to brand it as Western work.
Privacy is kind of there, just not in the way it is in Anglosphere. Denying comprehending different forms of existence never works, like the pigeon cat story.
Why am I seeing Google and Facebook, but not the “Chinese baddies”?
Because Opera sells data to different conglomerates of companies, like Verizon, which includes Yahoo and Yimg.com (can’t access because Yimg.com is flagged as malicious, by the way), also Hotjar (Website Heatmaps & Behavior Analytics). It also sends information to Microsoft, Alphabet.Inc and Nest (Google advertising companies) as well as doubleclick.net, google-analytics.com, google.com, googletagmanager.com. In other words, half the Internet companies know what you do with Opera, looking over your shoulder, adding that the free “VPN” logs all your browser history. Thanks, no need for this.
And… not many people use Opera. And, why should I trust a closed source browser over something that is fully open source? Your arguments still make no sense, because features are replaceable in better ways, and features are not aiding privacy or security or (partial) anonymity of people.
You do not have to trust anything, it is simply absurd that at this point you trust a product when it says FOSS, resulting in the concept of FOSS having nothing to do with this concept, to remember that to trust a product other factors are necessary. As I said before, also the APIs and other apps to track the user of big companies are FOSS and included in many other FOSS to earn money.
Vivaldi is freeware proprietary, but only because the UI scripts are, which are 100% auditable and modifiable by the user, which is not possible in Chrome, EDGE and Opera, there the Chromium layer is not auditable at all and completely closed source, this is the difference. Firefox is a good browser and FOSS, but it passes user data to Alphabet and NEST, i.e. Google, for funding. In its development the company is oriented more to its own interests than to those of the users, which is why many abandon Firefox, even 2 distros have done so, now using Vivaldi as the default browser (Manjaro and FerenOS) other distros also play with this possibility and most already have Vivaldi in their repositories and many users have already done so, in the Vivaldi community more than half of users use Linux, because they know that Vivaldi does not traffic with their data, it is even active in campaigns against these practices .
They appreciate that when a bug appears, that the devs even work on Sundays to offer an update that fixes it. This is what deserves trust, that some companies like Renault and PoleStar even have, to use it as the preferred browser for their products.