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Comment by gnud | Hacker News Reader

Everyone knows (or should know) Opera is adware/malware now, after the ownership changed.

If you liked Opera, try Vivaldi. It's made by some ex-opera people, reminds me of good old Opera 6.

This was implemented way before Opera changed ownership, and as far as I can see from the outside, not much has changed in this code. The main difference I see, is that they have removed the source IP from the JSON.

So, if any, they are tracking less data in that data blob after they changed ownership.

(I worked on this feature at Opera back in the days)

What was this information used for?

Statistics. We wanted to know how different campaigns worked, how the user retention from different partners was, and also benchmark how well the autoupdate system worked. While I worked for Opera this was strictly for internal use, and a very limited set of people had access to logs and raw data.

The same ex-opera people was the master minds behind the netinstaller tracking :) I was not implying that Opera is any more adware/malware than any other software.

Yeah Vivaldi is the best browser experience I have tried recently.

I have the Chrome engine, without all the Google trackers. And the best customizable experience (vertical tabs à la Firefox Tree Style Tab).

Dropped Google Chrome and Firefox.

What do you use for syncing bookmarks? That's one of the most infuriating thing about browsers that are not FF, Chrome or Safari. I want my bookmarks no matter what device I'm on. I could care less about other types of syncing.

I use Vivaldi as my main browser, but more often than not, it becomes sluggish. Sometimes Windows fail draw, which is annoying.

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