[Ayesh]

The golden age of Opera was with Opera Mini, where they ran a massive proxy to dumb down desktop web sites for tiny mobile browsers, likely running Java. Everyone used it, loved it, and I bet it cost Opera a lot of money too.

After this, Opera is struggling a lot to set themselves apart of the pack, and in my opinion, they are failing at it. They lost the focus, and past recent "innovations" were simply smashing things with the browser.

- VPN integration built in. - Ad Blocker built in - Torrent client built in - Crypto currency wallet built in

All these features, but they still have to make money too. Running ads (as suggested sites or whatever) doesn't bode well in a land where we have more popular open source browsers not running ads, and having all these features as add-ons, web apps, or one way or the other.