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The company behind Opera browser also runs a loan shark operation (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 10 months ago by bitofhope@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Also a bunch of somewhat less heinous cringe shit.

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[–] self@awful.systems 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

fuck me, imagine having a viable browser engine that isn’t based on Firefox or chrome and then instead of open sourcing it or doing anything at all with it, nah, , pivot to chromium with scam bullshit integrated into it

[–] rdri@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Same feels here. But fwiw the source was leaked at some point and there was even a thing like this https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zero3k/opera-1215/