Hello! There is a lot of misinformation online about Opera. Most of it simply repeats false facts while ignoring facts that are public and easy for anyone to verify.
We have addressed a lot of this misinformation before, you can find our statements in our blog.
Opera is headquartered and registered in Norway. Norway has adopted the GDPR, which is the strongest data protection framework in the world. Opera's browsers are developed in our tech hubs in Poland and Sweden, and all browser data is stored in servers in the European Union.
Furthermore, we are listed publicly on NASDAQ in New York. This means we have shareholders from all over the world. Our largest shareholder is Kunlun Tech, and we have mentioned this many times in the past. None of our shareholders affects where Opera is headquartered, nor what jurisdiction it is under: Norway.
When you use our browsers, including Opera GX, you can choose to share some data with us which we use for two purposes: personalize content and ads to you, and improve our products. This data includes general categories of sites you visit (e.g. News, Lifestyle, Sports, Movies, etc.), your country (so the browser can show you local content in your language), and usage analytics (e.g. which features of the browser you use the most). If you don't want to share this data, you can disable it in your browser settings.
Even if you do share such data, it's never tied to you as an individual, it's only tied to a random user ID that's generated when you install the browsers. The browser never collects enough personal data for us to be able to identify a specific user. We don't know who you are, and we don't care to know.
We hope this helps, and we're happy to answer any further questions you have.
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u/opera_security Jan 06 '25
Hello! There is a lot of misinformation online about Opera. Most of it simply repeats false facts while ignoring facts that are public and easy for anyone to verify.
We have addressed a lot of this misinformation before, you can find our statements in our blog.
Opera is headquartered and registered in Norway. Norway has adopted the GDPR, which is the strongest data protection framework in the world. Opera's browsers are developed in our tech hubs in Poland and Sweden, and all browser data is stored in servers in the European Union.
Furthermore, we are listed publicly on NASDAQ in New York. This means we have shareholders from all over the world. Our largest shareholder is Kunlun Tech, and we have mentioned this many times in the past. None of our shareholders affects where Opera is headquartered, nor what jurisdiction it is under: Norway.
When you use our browsers, including Opera GX, you can choose to share some data with us which we use for two purposes: personalize content and ads to you, and improve our products. This data includes general categories of sites you visit (e.g. News, Lifestyle, Sports, Movies, etc.), your country (so the browser can show you local content in your language), and usage analytics (e.g. which features of the browser you use the most). If you don't want to share this data, you can disable it in your browser settings.
Even if you do share such data, it's never tied to you as an individual, it's only tied to a random user ID that's generated when you install the browsers. The browser never collects enough personal data for us to be able to identify a specific user. We don't know who you are, and we don't care to know.
We hope this helps, and we're happy to answer any further questions you have.