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Opera is Reborn

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Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by dm319 »

analogmemory wrote: post #47

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

We shouldn't be too quick to branding those with a valid criticism of a government (or for that matter, a religion or even culture) as being racist. This prevents valid discussion of difficult topics and perpetuates the idea that we live in an overly politically correct world, which I think only helps to fester true racism.

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by aembleton »

michalstanko wrote: post #15
stillmotion wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Opera has been using WebKit as their core engine for the past couple of years.

Actually it's WebKit fork by Google called Blink. And I do use Opera as a default browser. The correct Ctrl+Tab behaviour which works like Alt+Tab (switch between the most recent tabs, with a small popup list of tabs) is the main reason for that. Much more productive for me than the usual "cycle over all of open tabs sequentially" behaviour that Chrome, Firefox, and everyone else have (except the Vivaldi browser).

In Firefox:

1. Go to about:config

2. Search for browser.ctrlTab.previews

3. Change value to `true`

4. Close tab

Now your ctrl+tab should work as you want.

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by coldtea »

jug wrote: post #66
analogmemory wrote: post #47

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

Did China's Great Internet Firewall and eager to control how their population access the web somehow pass you? I am not racist, I am not placing this blame on a Chinese person's race, persona, or anything. This isn't about the governed Chinese people in the first place.

>Did China's Great Internet Firewall and eager to control how their population access the web somehow pass you?

No, neither the US's Great Internet Surveillance, and long track record of working with, arming, helping, and installing in power dictators and friendly lackeys all around the world, from Latin America to Europe.

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by nbdev »

gagabity wrote: post #57
yzmtf2008 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I think what they are describing there runs before the uninstall does it not? Pretty sure mine was after the uninstall completed, which is not possible since the app is already gone by that point.

There are actually networks of unrelated apps that listen for uninstalls. I was contacted by a company wanting to add their SDK to my apps, partly for this purpose. Uninstall activity is just another thing being monitored.

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by bigbugbag »

H4CK3RM4N wrote: post #67
analogmemory wrote: post #47

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

1) Google I don't trust them. 2) Apple Previous stands on privacy/security, knowledge of where they make actually make money and widely spread shareholder base/publicly identifiable managers. 3) Firefox(Moz://a) It's a bit for profit and everything of theirs is open source, and therefore auditable.

Apple PR on privacy is not in line with the icloud based fappening[1] and this one got highly publicized because it involved hundreds of naked celebrities.

Mozilla was historically almost entirely funded by google for fueling their personal data collection and profiling (this only changed when firefox started to become irrelevant and mozilla had to scramble for survival and their first move was to keep the same offense but with a different actor), they refuse to block tracking and ads not to infuriate their income source (gave rise to a free software version that does this and removed the mozilla proprietary "phone home" plugin), firefox includes a remote spying mechanism called "telemetry" and punish users that take step to protect their privacy from this as demonstrated during the recent dropping of alsa support debacle.

Let's not forget their origin, the name "mozilla" stands for mosaic killer and clearly states that they aim to be dominating the web browser market. The move open source was forced and due to circumstances, firefox is a failed attempt at fixing performance issues in the mozilla suite, etc.

Mozilla and Firefox also has a deserved reputation for making far-reaching and very short-sighted decisions in a vacuum. I'd rather not trust them much either.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICloud_leaks_of_celebrity_phot...

Re: Opera is Reborn

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Post by Macuyiko »

xbenjii wrote: post #82

Some shady stuff going on in an injected browser.js file: https://gist.github.com/xbenjii/2048d8edf135b04790be593ee69e...

Not really. All of these are mostly user agent modifications to pretend to be Chrome to make certain sites work, as well as some JavaScript event modification (with a similar purpose).

The only "shady" thing is hiding the Chrome ad on Google's home page, though I guess you can consider that as a convenience once you decide to switch fully to another browser.

I don't know how easy it would be to pull an update for that file however, in which case it could become shady in an instant.

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