Opera used to be a fantastic web browser, with a custom high-performance Presto rendering engine and features like tabbed windows that didn't show up in competing browsers until years later. However, the modern Opera browser is a shadow of its former self, reliant on chasing trends and meme advertising to
As soon as Opera was acquired by the Chinese company, I told everybody to dump it ASAP.
Reddit said I was ignorant and racist because I had “no proof” that the new company was doing something wrong
I mean, yeah, just leaving it at “china bad” is still xenophobia. Tech companies in the US and other countries can be just as shady.
“Chinese bad” is xenophobia
“China = surveillance state” is the most basic of common sense
lol it was obvious when a random Chinese company purchased what was going to happen.
dumped it for the same reason. it was never my main browser. firefox+ublock+vpn=awesome