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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by renzev to c/memes
 
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

and they advertised it on tv pretty heavily, too.

[–] takeda 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I love Opera's response to some of the idiotic speed test ads: https://youtu.be/zaT7thTxyq8

This was before Opera dropped their own engine and became just another Chrome skin unfortunately.

For those who missed the original Chrome ads, here they are: https://youtu.be/nCgQDjiotG0

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I can't figure out what Opera's deal is now, with that weird video enhancement thing. Lucid, or whatever it's called.

ABSOLUTELY NOBODY asked for in-browser video sharpening.

How much development time and expertise does that kind of thing take, anyway? Whatever the fuck Lucid Video actually does, it must have taken thousands of person-hours to develop, of which many hundreds were contributed by people with Masters-degree levels of education and experience, in image processing.

Why, in the name of all that is good and holy in this misbegotten, shit-crusted world would they spend all that effort on that shit, INSTEAD OF MAKING THEIR OWN BROWSER ENGINE AGAIN???

That would HAVE to be easier, right? Maybe it would be pretty hard, given the commitment you'd have to make, in order to be absolutely sure you were making a product that didn't have huge security holes. But I'm just saying, NOBODY wanted whatever this Lucid Video thing is. At least just save all the effort of doing that, by just...not doing it.

[–] renzev 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Nobody:

Opera: Hey kids, do you want to install a GAMING browser?!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Also, nobody:

Also, Opera: Every couple of times that the browser auto-updates itself, it plays a splash screen with a weirdly ominous and loud noise. You're welcome. We knew you'd love that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

opera isn't opera anymore, it's chinese-owned now (since 2016). if you want a browser by one of the original founders of the 'old' opera, look at vivaldi... although it, too, is chromium-based.

[–] dublued 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I really miss the old Opera. Dropped it immediately when they went with Chrome.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] idunnololz 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

They had some iconic ads back in the day. Some examples:

Speed - https://youtu.be/FaNpWJY9SEs

Stability - https://youtu.be/GZRZcKEtHzo

Security - https://youtu.be/ekeRDKxQe1g

Edit: cleaned up the links

[–] renzev 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Huh, watching this in current year, the "crashed tabs won't crash your browser" one feels like an oddly technical detail to include in a commercial. I guess I'm just so used to it now that it's hard for me to imagine that web browsers weren't always as reliable as they are now.

Also, look, I appreciate your comment, but could you please at least remove the ?si= tracking nonsense from your youtube links?

For everyone else, here are nvidious links:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=FaNpWJY9SEs
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=GZRZcKEtHzo
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ekeRDKxQe1g

[–] idunnololz 2 points 11 months ago

People forget but when chrome first came out it was extremely ahead of the competition.

[–] mrchampion 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd also like to add, to whomever it may concern, that you can find a userscript to automatically convert youtube links into invidious links, among other things, here.

There's a couple others made by the same guy you may be interested in, like a basic link tracker remover

[–] renzev 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Their chrome and play store ads will forever be seared in my brain.