I love Opera, I've been using it for about a year now. Its leagues ahead in most things, although I've started using edge on android because its significantly faster load times.
Opera Touch is a solid alternative to Safari on the iPhone
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Re: Opera Touch is a solid alternative to Safari on the iPhone
#22On iOS, there can’t really be an alternative to Safari because there is no way to change the default browser system wide. No matter how careful you are, eventually some app somewhere will open an URL, causing Safari to open, but now that it’s not your default browser, all your login state, your favorites and, heck, even just the familiar UI will be missing. No. Until iOS allows setting a default browser, there is no…
They need an antitrust suit along the lines of the IE one lodged against Microsoft in the 90's
Re: Opera Touch is a solid alternative to Safari on the iPhone
#23On iOS, there can’t really be an alternative to Safari because there is no way to change the default browser system wide. No matter how careful you are, eventually some app somewhere will open an URL, causing Safari to open, but now that it’s not your default browser, all your login state, your favorites and, heck, even just the familiar UI will be missing. No. Until iOS allows setting a default browser, there is no…
Could it be possible to reuse the ad blocker functionality Apple allows on Safari by building an app/extension/however that works to catch all loaded URLs in Safari and replace them with an "Open in #preferred_browser#" link perhaps?
Re: Opera Touch is a solid alternative to Safari on the iPhone
#24I feel it's safer these days to assume any digital product that's owned by a Chinese parent company is compromised, than assuming it isn't.
The bigger question is if this means it would be harder for the NSA or other American government agencies to get my data?
I assume a Chinese company would laugh at a National Security Letter? Since I'm an American, I don't worry about China having my data.
Re: Opera Touch is a solid alternative to Safari on the iPhone
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes I would not trust them just as I don't understand how people buy Chinese spy phones
Okay, so there are a lot of accusations of spyware on Chinese phones. Can someone link concrete evidence of this? I ask this out of genuine curiosity.
They have adware, but spyware is harder to say.
Re: Opera Touch is a solid alternative to Safari on the iPhone
#26On iOS, there can’t really be an alternative to Safari because there is no way to change the default browser system wide. No matter how careful you are, eventually some app somewhere will open an URL, causing Safari to open, but now that it’s not your default browser, all your login state, your favorites and, heck, even just the familiar UI will be missing. No. Until iOS allows setting a default browser, there is no…
They need an antitrust suit along the lines of the IE one lodged against Microsoft in the 90's
As Apple don’t have a market monopoly, antitrust provisions (similar to what Microsoft was hit with) won’t necessarily apply.
Re: Opera Touch is a solid alternative to Safari on the iPhone
#27Re: Opera Touch is a solid alternative to Safari on the iPhone
#28Is Opera Touch also owned by Opera's Chinese parent company? I couldn't see anything mentioned in the few articles I checked.
Yes I would not trust them just as I don't understand how people buy Chinese spy phones
What's the alternative? American spy phones?
I'd be more afraid of the American government than the Chinese one.
Re: Opera Touch is a solid alternative to Safari on the iPhone
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
They need an antitrust suit along the lines of the IE one lodged against Microsoft in the 90's
As Apple don’t have a market monopoly, antitrust provisions (similar to what Microsoft was hit with) won’t necessarily apply.
There should be something similar to POSIX for mobile operating systems, basically forcing open systems (if not Open Source), at least for companies that have anything to do with the government.
Re: Opera Touch is a solid alternative to Safari on the iPhone
#30I feel it's safer these days to assume any digital product that's owned by a Chinese parent company is compromised, than assuming it isn't.
The bigger question is if this means it would be harder for the NSA or other American government agencies to get my data? I assume a Chinese company would laugh at a National Security Letter? Since I'm an American, I don't worry about China having my data.
If China has your data they’re one step closer to having access to taking your money. Are you okay with them taking your money too? What recourse would you have?