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Comment by giancarlostoro | Hacker News Reader

After Opera was bought out by some Chinese company I wont ever install it on my machine unless they fully open source and I can install from said source.

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why? i don't know where you live but i bet a whole lot of things you use and trust daily are made by "some chinese company"

Sure, I use Xiaomi stuff, but it's stuff I can isolate on its own vlan, block traffic from, etc.

I don't intentionally let it run rampant and hand it 100% of the data.

Beyond Xiaomi many of the products you use were manufactured or assembled in China.

I think there's a considerable difference between having a shoddy coffee machine and having an untrusted third party have access to virtually everything you do online. I don't really see the benefit in arguing otherwise, regardless of where the company is based.

Is your router or modem made in China? It most likely is. What about most of your ISPs equipment. Most likely. Some form of everything you own is from China.

Well, can't speak for OP, but for me it's less that it's just "some chinese company", but more "some chinese company with a actual bad track record of predatory loans in africa, backdoors in their Chinese browser, and falsly issuing certificates in their CA, then buying StartCom in an attempt to sneak back into that market:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qihoo_360#Controversies

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/01/21/opera-predatory-loa...

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