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What's your opinion on Opera browser?
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The Opera of today is not the same as the one from back in the days! The original company sold all their code and rights to a chinese consortium in 2016. Since then it's basically a variant of chromium, with some propriatary features and tracking added. I don't know the new owners, so I don't trust them with my browsing data!
The original devs of Opera went to make Vivaldi, which is a yet another Chromium based browser.
It is yet another Chromium based browser but for when Chromium is needed for compatibility reasons, it’s got some pretty cool features like split panes and mobile sites as a sidebar etc.
Firefox always number 1 though.
The original company was sold. Opera Software still makes the browser and its headquarters is still in Norway, but it is owned by a consortium.
Just curious, what browser do you use?
I switched from Chrome to Firefox about a year ago, because it's just better for personal privacy and the freedom of the web as a whole. Brave would be my second choice, but FF lets you easily self-host a sync server for all your browsing data.
Brave is littered with crypto and replaces other ad networks with their own (which does tracking basically exclusively for them).
Steer clear, it’s a trap.
You can disable Brave ads and tracking pretty easy. A lot of the crypto stuff can be disabled too.
Tor browser for mostly anonymous browsing, Mullvad browser as default non-Tor browser (it's basically an open source Firefox fork made by Mullvad and the Tor team), but I also still have a regular Firefox configured with Arkenfox' user.js and some important extensions, as well as a Chromium with zero protections except uBlock Origin. I switch between those browsers depending on use case. Each browser has a different theme to make them easily distinguishable from each other, the "insecure" browsers which I only use for rare exceptions (websites misbehaving in any other browser) have a red-like color. All browsers are being run sandboxed.
On mobile: Tor browser, Bromite and Vanadium.