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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Is this a shitpost or is that idiot actually telling me not to use Opera because of alleged investor fraud in 2020?

I don't give a fuck about that, mate, when the other option is a Monopoly that literally removed the "Don't be Evil" clause from their code of conduct. If you want me to stop using Opera then you'll have to give me a reason about the specifications of the program, not about the company's petty crimes due to Chinese regulatory failures.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (9 children)

I'm just tired as the next person about posts that provide a million half-assed reasons to not use anything but Firefox. But honestly If we don't stop these places from building dossiers on us and locking us out of websites that are unsanctioned by them, It will a erode our opportunities in years to come.

Right now, it doesn't feel like it matters. Lexis-Nexis knows every nickel you ever spend and every creditor that ever ran a check on you, Google knows what type of porn you like to watch, tik tok and opera are storing everything that you've ever been into in a place that can be retrieved by other governments.

At some point we're going to have to take our privacy more seriously. Preferably before 1984 actually becomes real.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, if I stopped using/buying a product just because the company behind it did something slightly shitty, I wouldn't have any belongings, food, etc.

I use Firefox just as much as I use opera gx, I use them on each of my browsers. Opera gx is more primary but yeah...

I dont know what I would replace it with. Brave, I guess?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

That is quite the pivot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I can't even install opera GX, I just get an error, is it because I have core isolation enabled?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I've been using Firefox as my "home" browser and Opera GX as my "work" browser. On Windows, it's easy to set up launch profiles but not so much on Mac. I need to figure out a solution to this before I can transition.

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