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Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it (www.neowin.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by moe90@feddit.nl to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 51 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Opera browser? The one that everyone was making a stink about a few years ago? The one owned directly by a Chinese based company, and was supposedly sending telemetry to China?

Why the hell would anyone still be using Opera???

[–] viking@infosec.pub 8 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

The link you shared is the company profile only and doesn't mention any controversy about telemetry being shared with China.

I've been googling for a bit, and there are articles concerned this might happen from 2016 when the takeover was announced, and plenty of discussions on reddit, hacker news, y-combinator, quora and even on the official Opera forum (not deleted or redacted, mind you), but there wasn't any clear evidence that telemetry is being shared.

While the concern remains valid, I'm also asking myself whether it's that much worse than Chrome, Brave or Firefox sending telemetry to the US? I'm neither American nor Chinese, and would consider both governments hostile. Which one of them has access to my data is merely a choice between plague and cholera.

So in the end it's on informed users to block transmission of telemetry themselves, regardless of their browser of choice.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I would rather give my data to Firefox than a company who's entire business model is selling user data. That being said, you could use librewolf which removes telemetry. I use both Firefox and librewolf

[–] webpack@ani.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Mozilla seems to be transitioning to becoming an advertising company so I wouldn't want them to have my data either.

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