I’m surprised why Opera doesn’t come up more often in HN discussions. Sure it is not open source like Firefox but it is pretty performant and a competitor to Chrome which we all agree is a good thing.
It’s built by the creators of Vilvadi before they sold it to a Chinese company.. which seems like a good reason to avoid both of the browsers.
Reddit is also (partially) owned by a chinese company - people complain but ultimately not going to stop people from using. That's just global capital at work. Opera's team is still in Norway.
Yes, I think it's worth noting that Opera is still located/incorporated in Norway so they are still under the jurisdiction privacy laws there.
What are privacy laws in Norway comparing to Sweden (where they're pretty relaxed for corporations and goverment)?
No engineers are situated in Norway for Opera AFAIK.