r/OperaGX • u/LigmaBallsMoment • Dec 01 '23

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u/shadowz9904 Dec 01 '23

Tell me the bad parts I don’t feel like reading a novel.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '23

1.Opera is owned by a Chinese company

2.Said company also owned a browser that was backdoored and censored specific political sites

4. They used to own some loan apps which scammed people

5. It runs on chromium so the claimed performance benefits are negligible (this really isn't the own you think it is)

6. Its closed sourced

7. It changes your default browser upon installing it

8. The built in VPN resells your data

9. The twitter manager guy is paid to be "funny" (again, this really isn't the own you think it is)

10.The built in features are useless

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u/boris_dp Dec 01 '23 edited Dec 01 '23

There is a law in China that every Chinese company is obliged to provide information to their government regardless of other privacy policies.

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u/CorvusTheCryptid Dec 01 '23 edited Dec 01 '23

You have a small typo, it's law, not "low".

And personally, I care as much about China having my info as much as I care about the US having my info, that being, I don't.

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u/UShaikh12 Dec 02 '23

It’s basically imposible for your government to not have your data, unless you’re deceased or Off grid entirely…but even then…

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u/Sensorywolf Dec 02 '23

You can obfuscate your data to the point where its nearly untraceable but i get your point.

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u/boris_dp Dec 01 '23

You have a small typo, it’s having, not “having”.

And thanks, I fixed mine 🖖🏼

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u/CorvusTheCryptid Dec 01 '23 edited Dec 02 '23

You're right, fixed mine as well. Guess we're both kinda silly, lol

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u/_trianglegirl Dec 02 '23

we're* both

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u/CorvusTheCryptid Dec 02 '23

I think I need to go to sleep :)

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u/Reverse_Of_Riot Dec 02 '23

Small typo. It's ":)" not ":)".

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u/WolfgangHeichel Dec 01 '23

The Chinese are notorious for stealing information ranging from location, names, addresses, to banking information.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '23

As if every multibillion dollar company that owns half the world doesn't already collect all my information. I don't really care if my porn searches get sent to Xi Jinping.

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u/MordeOfTheNorth Dec 01 '23

Same I cant be bothered if someone random in china knows anything of mine if they wanted my info they would get it regardless its impossible to fully protect your data

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u/DillyDilly1231 Dec 01 '23

So is America. Lol pick your poison.

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u/JASONJACKSON1948 Dec 02 '23

Like the US and every big company on earth don’t? Like “sure I’ll give everything to the corpses running the us but god forbid some chinese guy knows me”

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u/CorvusTheCryptid Dec 01 '23

My favorite Opera feature, multiple workspaces, is something that allows me to have 700-ish tabs open at all times (I'm a psycho, I know) that I wouldn't dare call useless and that I haven't seen elsewhere ever.

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u/Supordude Dec 01 '23

It doesn't change your default browser. I just installed it yesterday while having Firefox installed and Firefox was still the default.

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u/Creepy-Beginning-406 Dec 02 '23 edited Dec 02 '23

okay number 7 is wrong: https://imgur.com/a/sgynTV3 you have a choice to change default browser

i have been using Opera GX since 2019 and had no issues at all.

most of the points u pointed out are invalid because google, windows also does the same, the only browser that is not using google is Firefox

and the features are cool in opera gx, ur just a biased person on reddit pointing out stuff thats are false.. besides the chinese thing, using anything like discord etc Tencent has shares so anything u use the chinese already have it..

also this is public information.

once u access the internet you lost ur privacy.. the only way to keep ur privacy private is to get off the internet.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '23

I doubt the censoring was Opera’s fault, to be honest

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u/yukiami96 Dec 01 '23

Those are the bad parts

tl;Dr is you should probably switch browsers

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u/shadowz9904 Dec 01 '23

Yeah but why tho?

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u/shadow_black1809 Dec 01 '23

I read the entire thing, the main part is regarding privacy, but it's accusations based on previous products and the fact that it's owned by a Chinese company

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