• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What’s Opera based on? My friends mostly use Mac, so they all use Opera and Chrome, but I have gotten them to stop using Chrome.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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        1 year ago

        So? It isn’t google. Also google and Mozilla have Asian employees so I guess you’ll have to be not racist.

        I do agree that the Chinese government is problematic though.

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          1 year ago

          I’d like to point out that they said nothing about it being a bad thing and that all they did was say it was Chinese-owned, hence making your comment a pointless attack of nonsense.

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          It uses Chromium as its base, so is essentially Chrome with fancy things attached to it. It uses Blink, Chrome/Chromium’s rendering engine.

          We need fewer Chromium-based browsers out there. The greater marketshare they have, the easier it will be for Google to push W3C and everyone else around to conform to their desired business model.

          For example, when Google inevitably pushes WEI into Chrome, WebKit and Gecko (Safari-based and Firefox-based browsers) won’t be affected at all.

          If, however, 90% of all users end up on Blink (whether it’s Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, Edge, Brave, or whatever) then Google can do whatever they want to the web.

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      Opera was bought by a Chinese data analytics company, and once that happened, they scrapped their engine and used chromium to save money.

      They have questionable CCP ties too.

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          1 year ago

          Maybe use that information to try and influence the public in the same way that cambridge analytica did for the 2016 elections.

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          lol. This thread is about people mad that google is doing it, and you’re saying so what if a nation state does it?

          The answer is the same either way - to either sell the data to a party who want to manipulate you into doing or thinking what they want or by directly manipulating you into doing or thinking what they want.

          Same with Reddit and lemmy. It doesn’t take a whole lot of investment (on a state level actor basis) to manipulate small and large communities or individuals into thinking something is normal or mainstream. Or convincing them that everyone loves this product or it’s so popular or whatever.

          The CCP censors their entire internet for their people and collects all sorts of information to root out dissidents. What good thing do you think is going to come from them having that data?