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TL;DR company shady
The main 3 points seem to be: China-owned, predatory loan applications, and spreading themselves across too many concept/trend browser spinoffs. Honestly this is kinda old news and won't stop anyone I know from using the thing. You can't just say they're "probably" harvesting your data for "nefarious" reasons and expect people to all jump to Firefox (as nice as that may be).
I'd add a fourth main point: they have a documented history of creating browsers and then abandoning them, leaving any unaware users without security updates indefinitely
Also, Stop Using Brave Browser
Also Chrome...
Please, yes!! If anything will make a chance, that will. Google keeps trying to subvert the internet with their FLoC and Topics crap. And the other thing recently with the "trusted" web environment thing.
A lot of their plans get watered down but still...
I only use Brave if I need a Chrome based browser. Otherwise I use Firefox.
Sticking with Vivaldi if I need a Chrome fix
Consider using Ungoogled Chromium on desktop or Cromite on Android.
if I need a Chrome based browser
I don't think Chromium has "gone bad"? They make a WIndows and macOS build too, not just Linux: https://chromium.woolyss.com/download/en/
I try to avoid Chromium based browsers as a rule because I don't like Google being the de facto standards group by controlling Chromium.
This is a great read. Never knew Opera transitioned to an enshittified abomination of crypto spyware and bloatware.
It used to be great... A truly innovative browser that had so many features that even browsers today don't have.
I switched away from it when they switched to the Blink engine, probably around 2012 or so? It's been all downhill since then.
Same, used Opera religiously back in the day, so much more functional than the rest. Switched to Chrome (yes yes, I know) when it started going downhill.
Chrome still doesn't have the ability to set a shortcut for "switch to previous tab", have to use a plugin for that 🙄
Try Vivaldi, it's made by former opera Devs from before opera became Chinese
It's good but I don't want to contribute to the HTML/Webkit/Blink monoculture. We need multiple browser engines in the world. That's one of the reasons I use Firefox.
I did, but yes, great to read all the details again now.
:thumbs-up
Opera today is essentially totally different to the innovative browser from the 2000s. I miss the old Opera.
Vivaldi is trying to become its replacement, but I don't really want to contribute to the KHTML/Blink/Webkit monoculture.
Stop using proprietary bullshit altogether
I quit using Opera when it became just another Chromium fork, and never looked back. It seems like that was an excellent decision, lol.
Stop telling people what to do.
I don't like that Opera now has an AI integrated.
I don't know that this article is compelling. Their main source of information was discredited in the article.
What was discredited?
I am, perhaps, too judgemental.
Since Hindenburg directly profits from the company's decline in stock, it's not an impartial source of information, but the company's other reports into companies like Nikola have held up to scrutiny.
I wouldn't consider them that terribly biased personally; as their livelihood (Money) is put into shorting whatever company is being reported on (Mouth). Literally they put their money where their mouth is...and if they make a horrible mistake in reading a company going under and doing really shady things; they're going to basically go out themselves pretty quickly and lose a lot of credibility in the process.
Is it maybe a little scummy? Yes. But as they're calling out scumbags anyways; it looks more like a legitimate application of "taking a scammer to know a scammer". It's better that they're legitimately profiting from calling out companies that are cheating everyone and reporting on it to benefit the public in the process.
Yeah, Hindenburg isn’t like a team of journalists or anything, but if they cited other sources in their report and it seems to be pretty accurate. If there were big issues then Opera should have been able to point them out, and that didn’t happen.