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by throwawayadvsec 1068 days ago
opera offers a free vpn and builtin adblocker

i would use it daily if the UI/UX was better, or more similar to firefox

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If am not wrong, Opera is owned by some Chinese company and they are known for doing some really shady stuff [0][1] in African countries.

[0] https://blogs.opera.com/africa/2022/05/free-data-with-opera-...

[1] https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/01/21/opera-predatory-loa...

True, right now lots of folks from the original Opera team (including CEO) work on Vivaldi. If one day Mozilla forces me to ditch Firefox, I will probably switch to this browser.