I stopped using Opera the second it wasn’t Norwegian. I use Librewolf on desktop, Waterfox on mobile and Vivaldi as the “clean” browser when something k. Waterfox/Librewolf fucks up an important webpage I have to use
Comment on Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it
LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Opera browser? The one that everyone was making a stink about a few years ago? The one owned directly by a Chinese based company, and was supposedly sending telemetry to China?
Frostbeard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
needanke@feddit.org 2 months ago
Plus the whole exploiting poor people thing: engadget.com/2020-01-19-opera-accused-of-predator…
Mwa@lemm.ee 2 months ago
People are still using it thanks to them forcing and appealing to young generations with the opera gx browser and Twitter account mostly.
viking@infosec.pub 2 months ago
The link you shared is the company profile only and doesn’t mention any controversy about telemetry being shared with China.
I’ve been googling for a bit, and there are articles concerned this might happen from 2016 when the takeover was announced, and plenty of discussions on reddit, hacker news, y-combinator, quora and even on the official Opera forum (not deleted or redacted, mind you), but there wasn’t any clear evidence that telemetry is being shared.
While the concern remains valid, I’m also asking myself whether it’s that much worse than Chrome, Brave or Firefox sending telemetry to the US? I’m neither American nor Chinese, and would consider both governments hostile. Which one of them has access to my data is merely a choice between plague and cholera.
So in the end it’s on informed users to block transmission of telemetry themselves, regardless of their browser of choice.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I would rather give my data to Firefox than a company who’s entire business model is selling user data. That being said, you could use librewolf which removes telemetry. I use both Firefox and librewolf
webpack@ani.social 2 months ago
Mozilla seems to be transitioning to becoming an advertising company so I wouldn’t want them to have my data either.
Mwa@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Some people would rather give their data to opera rather firefox 🤦♂️
viking@infosec.pub 2 months ago
I’m using Fennec which also removes telemetry, but many standard users are not comfortable installing apps that aren’t on Google play.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The amount of people who only feel comfortable downloading on Google Play and also care about privacy I feel like is very small but I don’t know.
btaf45@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I want to upvote this.
I want to downvote this.
So I guess I will do neither since I can’t do both.