@GossiTheDog Jeez, that is something. The only sentence you really need from the article to grasp how fucked up it is: "The money from these loan apps amounted to 42.5% of Opera's revenue by mid-2019."

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Simply cashing in on the name they once had…

@GossiTheDog A fascinating issue with Opera GX: it's edgy to use. So using it despite these glaring problems, makes you kinda more edgy.

It is a browser that has uniquely captured identity in its usage, and the consequences of it being Opera, gets dismissed.

Sadly how to encourage Opera GX users to avoid Opera in the future in a way they get, is beyond me.

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Ohhh, whyyyy? I moved to Opera years ago and other than the now far too often updates, it's been good. Sigh.
What should I use instead?

@GossiTheDog Opera 11 was when it peaked; since moving off of their Presto engine, it’s been downhill ever since.

I still have a copy of Opera 11 on my computer. A browser well and truly ahead of its time, one of my favourite features is the ability to drag a tab onto another to create groups, a feature only recently added to Chrome. I’d still use it, but being 14 years out of date, it’s a security risk.

@GossiTheDog the problem with Firefox is that they don't have a vtuber twitch streamer like them

@GossiTheDog Funk opera

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You mean, we can't trust Eric Andre?!

@GossiTheDog Which browser company has morals? Google? Microsoft? Apple? The Mozilla Foundation? Or could it be that the China factor is at play here?

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Opera lost their religion when they stopped using their own rendering engine many years ago.. in the beginning they were great but they couldn't make money and then it all turned to crap a long time ago..

@GossiTheDog I should have trusted my gut on the premise that gatekeeping articles are bad and not spent my time looking at gossipy crap. This article is poorly written, grasps at emotional boogiemen, and doesn't deserve your amplification.

@GossiTheDog I use Opera on Android because it is still the best browser there. On my PC I use Firefox.

@GossiTheDog oof. That’s bad indeed

@GossiTheDog Our browser could work for you! :tony_wee:

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Opera used to be a fantastic web browser

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social what the fuck

@GossiTheDog Oh no

@GossiTheDog Not a bad article, but very weird of the author to compare (current) Opera to @Vivaldi a few times through out the article, making it seem like "just" another browser, and then wait until the very end to mention the actual significance of Vivaldi.

That being that it was created by Opera's former CEO after he was ousted from the company for not wanting to sell out

@GossiTheDog The people who made the good version of that left the company. They do Vivaldi now.

@GossiTheDog the fact I tell ppl this as well but no one listens anyway “cuz gaming” 💀

@GossiTheDog gorram it so what in the heck /can/ we use? 😭

@GossiTheDog Wow this shit is insane.
I remember Opera Mobile and Opera from years and had very good feeling using it.

@GossiTheDog Ok, cool. Which browser has integrated VPN? There are three pages I use that are banned in Spain. There's no error, but the DNS goes to somewhere else and then you get a page with "object not found"

@GossiTheDog @3x10to8mps I old enough to have paid for Opera because it was so damn good. 😔

@GossiTheDog once upon a time, Opera was by far my favorite browser. How far they've fallen.

@GossiTheDog oh hey that's my article 😎

@GossiTheDog I'll never understand why anyone who uses a Chromium-based browser doesn't just use Chromium. Outside of Firefox and Safari, it's all largely the same anyways.

@GossiTheDog I really miss uzbl. It's a shame it died. By far my most favorite piece of software. qutebrowser is nice, but just not the same vibe
Thanks for sharing this link, although it's sad if the own cynicism turns out to be actually true

@GossiTheDog Very sad. I used Opera in the v7 through v10 days, I guess. It has an integrated email client, and that email client had some extremely clever and useful organizational features that I've never found a good substitute for.

Basically, it offered a tagging system for incoming email, but it could tag new mail automatically, and crucially, it would learn and improve from user actions and corrections. I don't know how it worked but it did work, and it was amazing.

@GossiTheDog So sad. I used Opera briefly on my phone, where it was the only browser that didn't regularly abend at the time.

@GossiTheDog This depresses me so much. I was an avid Opera user from 2005-2012 or therabouts and still carry a lot of affection for it. :/

@GossiTheDog When I was young, Opera was actually a browser rather than just Chrome in drag.

@GossiTheDog Do you have to tl;dr?

@GossiTheDog aging companies are like aging celebrities: if they've become irrelevant, but don't know how to exit the spotlight you gonna find out exactly and what they gonna do to keep getting more

@GossiTheDog Can't believe the Nintendo DS browser has fallen so far from grace 😔

/j

@GossiTheDog holy shit, same.

I knew that Vivaldi is currently what Opera used to be in a lot of ways, and that it had some of the same staff.

I'm a Firefox person but I've experimented with Vivaldi and it's a quite nice browser

@GossiTheDog damn, all the youtubers are flogging Opera now and I very nearly checked it out.

@GossiTheDog "wait but it's free" 😔

If you want a browser that's the old Opera but modernized, that's Vivaldi. Unfortunately, the ignorance for quality also carried over from Opera.

@GossiTheDog Wait till you learn about Brave!

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I would have never used Opera due to it not being FOSS but it's always nice to have more reasons.

@GossiTheDog Opera Mini for java phones will randomly redirect you to full-screen ads instead of whatever link you clicked on.