In my opinion, I see it as they making misleading advertising, collexting data and supposedly sending it to the CCP, and having a generaly bloated browser.
I honestly don’t know what data this browser exfiltrates, or what else malicious it might do, but I don’t trust anyone this shady to run proprietary code on my devices. Scammers rarely respect any kind of boundaries.
I’m using opera (though it’s GX to be fair) and it’s still great to me. What did they do?
In my opinion, I see it as they making misleading advertising, collexting data and supposedly sending it to the CCP, and having a generaly bloated browser.
Others said it’s spyware, but they are also loan scammers.
I honestly don’t know what data this browser exfiltrates, or what else malicious it might do, but I don’t trust anyone this shady to run proprietary code on my devices. Scammers rarely respect any kind of boundaries.
Wow I didn’t know about this, very blatant.
Opera died a long time ago, they no longer use their own browser engine. Nowadays they are just a Chromium skin with Chinese spyware
Since you asked
It’s a proprietary closed source flavor of chrome which supports google’s monopoly and does not respect your privacy or freedom.
Here is some quick info if you’re interested: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/opera
https://digdeeper.club/articles/browsers.xhtml
https://digdeeper.club/articles/liftingtheveil.xhtml
If you don’t like that I’d suggest looking at librewolf (firefox/gecko based) or ungoogled chromium (chromium based)