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Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[+] doctorcrimson 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

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[–] linearchaos 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I'm just tired as the next person about posts that provide a million half-assed reasons to not use anything but Firefox. But honestly If we don't stop these places from building dossiers on us and locking us out of websites that are unsanctioned by them, It will a erode our opportunities in years to come.

Right now, it doesn't feel like it matters. Lexis-Nexis knows every nickel you ever spend and every creditor that ever ran a check on you, Google knows what type of porn you like to watch, tik tok and opera are storing everything that you've ever been into in a place that can be retrieved by other governments.

At some point we're going to have to take our privacy more seriously. Preferably before 1984 actually becomes real.

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[–] Sacha 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, if I stopped using/buying a product just because the company behind it did something slightly shitty, I wouldn't have any belongings, food, etc.

I use Firefox just as much as I use opera gx, I use them on each of my browsers. Opera gx is more primary but yeah...

I dont know what I would replace it with. Brave, I guess?

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[–] stoly 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I've been using Firefox as my "home" browser and Opera GX as my "work" browser. On Windows, it's easy to set up launch profiles but not so much on Mac. I need to figure out a solution to this before I can transition.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That is quite the pivot.

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