So I'm using the built in adblocker, and today the ads at the beginning of the youtube videos started to play. Up till yesterday they weren't there or just a blank white picture showd up, which I had to skip, but that didn't bother me, this is.

Maybe I'll just wait for it to be updated, any tips or should I use other adblock?

Most people know Opera is owned by a Chinese consortium since 2016 and quite possibly embeds spyware. Naturally, this is a cause for concern, and I'm sure long term followers of Opera have seen this come up many times:

• Opera browser sold to a Chinese consortium for $600 million

• Is Opera (now owned by Chinese Golden Brick) still safe?.

• Can Opera still be trusted?.

• Is Opera Really Safe Now That It's Owned By A Chinese Company?

• Opera, for example, is a Norwegian company operating under Norwegian privacy laws, which are among the best when it comes to protecting people’s privacy.

• Is it still possible to trust Opera Browser?

• I just find out that Opera, an Internet browser that I've been using for years, has been sold out to the Chinese in 2016. Is anyone still using Opera or should I abandon ship?

• Why do people say Opera is not safe?

• Privacy issues with Opera??

After reading through these, there is an obvious pattern of concern by Opera users for the protection of their privacy. The privacy policy seems to check out (does anyone even read those?) and although it seems very few (if any) have had any real problems since the purchase, spyware is called spyware for a reason. You're not going to get alerts of your data being collected, and if truly spyware, no policies are going to mention it either.

I always try to be secure with my online presence (i.e. agressive privacy settings, not sharing personal info, etc.), but it seems that gets more difficult as the years go on. I even have Pi-Hole set up to block trackers and ads, but that only goes so far if the spyware is embedded in the Opera servers itself. I guess since it's not open source, there is no real way to know for sure. Even so, I feel like "open source" has become a cheap way to earn trust. Very few people are able to understand code, even fewer actually comb through all the code and fewer still are able to find and decrypt obfuscated code, especially on large repositories. If someone really wants to hide something, publishing under open source isn't going to make a difference. Essentially, whatever you use, there's going to be some degree of trust you must instill to the company and its developers.

For software where "you are the product," your data is going somewhere. This has become a game of "would I rather have country X have my data, or country Y?" Which is ridiculous. Privacy should be a right, I know I definitely don't need multiple governments and corporations with folders full of my data. I realize some data must be collected (user experience, etc.) but when the flashlight app needs to know my location before it turns on and for some reason is using up 80% of the battery... that's a personal violation and is unacceptable.

I know there are other possible "better" options like Brave, Vivaldi, Water/Firefox, and probably lots others. And ultimately it's up to you to weigh the pros and cons of features, privacy, style, and whatever else may be important to you. I just find it sad we are forced to be so distrusting of everything we do tech wise, and some people I know just don't care. It doesn't directly affect them, so why not give all my data away? (See Snowden's response here).

I guess this turned into more of a rant. I've just really enjoyed Opera so far and disappointed I was naive enough to think it didn't have its own problems. What are your thoughts, agree, disagree, don't care? How do we go about better privacy protection?

Heya, I have been wondering if Opera GX will get a linux release or if there is any work done for that.

Any info will help, cheers.

Thanks.

This browser is like an April fools joke. It's like they are intentionally creating extremely annoying bugs. Either that or developers are totally useless , none of them actually use the browser and no testing is done before releasing anything.

I have been using this browser as my daily driver for few weeks now, here's my opinion:

Q: Why am you using this instead of mainstream browser?

A: for the ability to access Whatsapp Web from the side panel (I need it to be in close proximity all the time, having it as a tab isn't as convenient) it can also have Instagram, FB Messenger, VK and telegram in there, and for GX Control ( a utility in the side panel that lets you set a limit to cpu %, ram %, and internet trafic by the browser, it's amazing to just set it to lowest internet traffic possible to stream GeForce NOW with my full bandwidth, although I would love to see even tighted control on ram and cpu %, for example cpu usage can be lowered to 25% as maximum, and ram can be lowered to 1 Gb maximum. Also, It does some really good freezing of tabs, I ccurrently have 20 tabs running but it's only using about 830 Mb of ram, when I click on a frozen tab, it doesn't reload it, it takes about 4 seconds to get back running (I should mention I'm running a slowish hard drive, maybe an SSD will make that wait dissapear). I've used multiple browsers, Opera GX has the best tab freezing and ram usage in the game. also, laptops with TN panels have pretty abysmal viewing angles, so with dark mode enabled, it's really hard to know which tab I'm on with Chrome or Edge, Opera GX has that nailed with the line only going on the active tab, example. Also, it has Workspaces, it's basically having multiple windows open with each one containing multiple tabs, but in one single window with buttons on the side pannel to switch between them, you can set it up to have a work workplace and another for competitive reddit browsing amongst other non-work activities for example.

Q: I'm not intersted in the features mentioned above, does it have any features that'll make me want to switch?

A: Depends on what you want from a browser, it has built-in adblocking (But if you want to disable it on a specific link, it's way too much clicking to get to that on/off switch), it has built-in vpn (just a proxy, really bad as I heard, please use real VPNs). it has a tint color customizer (I just go with plain white) It has a gaming news and it shows which games are currently on sale. it also has animated backgrounds for New-tab. Non of these intrest me, but it may do to you.

Q: will it steal my data and sell it to shady ramen noodle dealers?

A: Don't know, but probably not. Opera has been in this buisness from 1995, so they aren't new commers by any means. Although they were involved in predatory loans in India and Nigeria amongst other places back in January this year.

Q: is it stable, polished and fast?

A: I noticed no speed difference, but the app isn't as stable as the competition, in a severe pressure load it crashes, taking down all tabs, having to reload them sucks, but for my usage, this happend about 4 times in total. and spelling checking is broken for me (the app can't download the english dictionary or something) so that sucks too . As far as it feels, Edge Chromium is the most polished browser imo, from the amazing UI to good text to speech to the superb pdf files handling, Edge just nails it in terms of polish.

But as long as no other browser has the features I mentioned in the first part, I'll stay using Opera GX. What do you think?

After just one day of using Opera Gx Brower, whenever i watch a youtube video of some sort, i get tremendous lag. The video will speed up and slow down randomly and when i checked the cpu usage, it would spike from 3%-50%. I even restarted my pc and everything

Am I the only one that kinda hates the new look that's now forced on us? It seems I saw posts a few months saying early bird users didn't like it so I don't know why they still put it out and I can't find a way to change it back.

So, I just have to vent about this new feature on Opera's browser that's been driving me crazy. They added these emojis to the tabs, thinking it would be all fun and cute, but honestly, it's just useless and annoying.

I mean, trying to close a tab has become a hassle now. Instead of a simple 'x' to click on, you have to aim for this tiny emoji that doesn't even serve a real purpose. It's like they prioritized aesthetics over functionality, and it's seriously frustrating.

I get that they're trying to be trendy and all, but sometimes simpler is just better. I want to be able to navigate my tabs easily without having to squint and carefully aim for a little smiley face or whatever.

I guess after almost 20 YEARS of using Opera, I will have to move to Mozilla. I feel like it gets worse with each update, but this latest one is driving me nuts.

Which genius came up with the idea of leaving a bar on the right side that you can accidentally press when scrolling through a page using the bar and move/shrink the window? In addition, sometimes scrolling the page is blocked in such a situation and even refreshing does nothing, you just have to fire it up in a new tab.

I'm not even talking about video playback, once it works, once it doesn't work, a total disaster.

Currently I use it probably only out of habit, like some kind of Stockholm syndrome.

I am the 1%

Hi. I downloaded Opera GX this week, but it's close to useless. Sometimes it is slow as hell, sometimes it doesn't even load the page and says "Cannot open this website". It's weird because Chrome and Firefox are working perfectly here. I tried Reinstalling and installing in a different drive, but the problem persist. Does anyone know what might be causing this issue?