Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX

TL;DR company shady

The main 3 points seem to be: China-owned, predatory loan applications, and spreading themselves across too many concept/trend browser spinoffs. Honestly this is kinda old news and won't stop anyone I know from using the thing. You can't just say they're "probably" harvesting your data for "nefarious" reasons and expect people to all jump to Firefox (as nice as that may be).

I'd add a fourth main point: they have a documented history of creating browsers and then abandoning them, leaving any unaware users without security updates indefinitely

Also, Stop Using Brave Browser

Also Chrome...
- Please, yes!! If anything will make a chance, that will. Google keeps trying to subvert the internet with their FLoC and Topics crap. And the other thing recently with the "trusted" web environment thing.
  A lot of their plans get watered down but still...
- I only use Brave if I need a Chrome based browser. Otherwise I use Firefox.

This is a great read. Never knew Opera transitioned to an enshittified abomination of crypto spyware and bloatware.

It used to be great... A truly innovative browser that had so many features that even browsers today don't have.
I switched away from it when they switched to the Blink engine, probably around 2012 or so? It's been all downhill since then.
- Same, used Opera religiously back in the day, so much more functional than the rest. Switched to Chrome (yes yes, I know) when it started going downhill.
  Chrome still doesn't have the ability to set a shortcut for "switch to previous tab", have to use a plugin for that 🙄
- Try Vivaldi, it's made by former opera Devs from before opera became Chinese
- @dan They did try to bring back some stuff in the later years, like an integrated RSS feed reader. But Firefox is just way better than anything else overall. Including the fact that it comes from an organization that puts privacy further up in the list of priorities.
  @BaroqueInMind
I did, but yes, great to read all the details again now.
:thumbs-up

Opera today is essentially totally different to the innovative browser from the 2000s. I miss the old Opera.

Vivaldi is trying to become its replacement, but I don't really want to contribute to the KHTML/Blink/Webkit monoculture.

Stop using proprietary bullshit altogether

I quit using Opera when it became just another Chromium fork, and never looked back. It seems like that was an excellent decision, lol.

Man I wish there was a good similar alternative. And not Vivaldi that sluggish crapfest.

I have different experience with Vivaldi, been using it for years, and it's amazing.
- Vivaldi has been my browser of choice for years as well. Fantastic product in my experience. I've sadly forced myself to start using firefox and librewolf in an attempt support alternatives to chromium based browsers. Firefox and co. are fine, but I'm still reaching for features and options from vivaldi that just don't exist in firefox without a maze of incompatible and poorly maintained plugins.
@BarrierWithAshes Just use Firefox. There's plenty of stuff that can be achieved just through add-ons and switching various settings in about:config. Only thing that's missing is an integrated free VPN, but I guess there are better alternatives anyway if you want more privacy online.
@corbin

Stop telling people what to do.

I don't like that Opera now has an AI integrated.

I don't know that this article is compelling. Their main source of information was discredited in the article.

What was discredited?
- I am, perhaps, too judgemental.
  Since Hindenburg directly profits from the company's decline in stock, it's not an impartial source of information, but the company's other reports into companies like Nikola have held up to scrutiny.