Opera is Reborn • Hacker News Board

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by robjan » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:31 AM UTC

mtgx wrote: post #38

I gave up using Opera for good once it was acquired by the Chinese.

Why do people say "the Chinese" as if Chinese people are some scary, out of this world concept or they are some kind of James Bond villain.

Re: Opera is Reborn

#42

Post by kmfrk » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:32 AM UTC

Opera's been rebooted more times than the Spider-Man movies at this point.

Re: Opera is Reborn

#43

Post by yzmtf2008 » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:33 AM UTC

gagabity wrote: post #6

This reminds me of an interesting thing that happened when I uninstalled Opera VPN on my Android. After uninstalling it automatically opened up a browser to one of those "Tell us why you uninstalled" pages that you normally see on the desktop, this shouldn't be possible on Android. I think they are doing this by having Opera Browser watch for uninstallation of Opera VPN and possibly vice-versa and when one detects th…

Um, before going down the conspiracy theory road, maybe do a simple google search? This is literally the top result for "android app on uninstall": http://stackoverflow.com/a/18816716/4944625

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by funnyfacts365 » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:33 AM UTC

Sagane wrote: post #29

I wonder why [.* ]baidu.com, [.* ]facebook.com, [.* ]google.com and [.* ]yandex.com are in the default list of exceptions when blocking ads. Any ideas?

Money.

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by bigbugbag » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:34 AM UTC

gagabity wrote: post #6

This reminds me of an interesting thing that happened when I uninstalled Opera VPN on my Android. After uninstalling it automatically opened up a browser to one of those "Tell us why you uninstalled" pages that you normally see on the desktop, this shouldn't be possible on Android. I think they are doing this by having Opera Browser watch for uninstallation of Opera VPN and possibly vice-versa and when one detects th…

I'm not an expert in google's android but could it be that the uninstall process ends by firing up a web page ?

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:34 AM UTC

jug wrote: post #40

I don't dare to use this since Opera got bought by that Chinese consortium of companies I'm not accustomed with. Not sure if I'm overly cautious? I'm thinking of especially Opera Link (which had a recent security breach to boot!). Wouldn't that leave out my passwords to China? And I do want to use some sort of syncing, I'd go crazy without anything there or some iffy third party addon. It's not even just about a trus…

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Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by analogmemory » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:34 AM UTC

If I ignore your weird racist overtones. Why would you trust Google/Apple/Firefox more?

Re: Opera is Reborn

#48

Post by steinso » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:35 AM UTC

So the chat program has to be on the left side, what if I want to move it somewhere else?

Perhaps it could reside in a little "window", then it could be moved anywhere! ....wait, this sounds familiar.

/s

Re: Opera is Reborn

#49

Post by Cthulhu_ » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:36 AM UTC

eps wrote: post #8

So chatting while browsing is the future of desktop browsing? Sounds rather... unambitious.

Also seems very focused on a single use case / user group. Which isn't me, I use separate apps for chat, and maybe only facebook messenger with one person.

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by jug » Wed, May 10, 2017, 8:36 AM UTC

robjan wrote: post #41

mtgx wrote: post #38

I gave up using Opera for good once it was acquired by the Chinese.

Why do people say "the Chinese" as if Chinese people are some scary, out of this world concept or they are some kind of James Bond villain.

I don't really blame the Chinese people myself, it's the ways the Chinese government is embedded in their industries whether they want it or not that worry me, especially with a software like a web browser.