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@Ady100 Opera One, Opera GX or Opera Air?

Reddit discussion about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/OperaGX/comments/1nfw8ma/how_to_stopdisable_the_shopping_mode/.

@GayBambi What shopping experience?

@GayBambi Opera One, Opera GX or Opera Air?

@leocg For Vivaldi, Ruari initially wrote a script to fetch libffmpeg.so. Now, it's kind of integrated into Vivaldi. As in, Vivaldi automatically fetches the correct libffmpeg.so. As for the source of that libffmpeg.so, I'm, not sure who compiles it and who hosts it etc.

As for the legality of that, not sure. I don't know if it was reviewed by Vivaldi's lawyers etc. or if they just do it and figure it's okay since Vivaldi isn't bundling it and only fetching it, so maybe that's considered okay.

As for Opera, I can only assume that they reviewed that idea and consider it too risky.

As for Firefox, I don't know, but I assume they use x.264 or something on the system.

As for Brave, don't know, but I think they might just bundle a libffmpeg with full media support. They might have a license or permission to do so or just do it anyway. Edge might do the same where they have a license.

@presager I asked about the Snap version because the Snap package usually includes the libraries necessary to play videos.

@alexs Or, most probably, Opera thinks that even offering a script like that may have legal consequences.

@PeterOpera123 Sounds like you want it to run a website? If so, probably not. If the site already exists you might be able to get it to do those tasks on the site for your actions, but it is a browser agent and couldn't replace the website.

@gloewa Unfortunately, yes, since Opera can't do much due to legal restrictions.

Don't know how other browsers can play videos that use proprietary codecs on Linux. Maybe they managed to get a license or, maybe, they find a way to legally give to their users the libraries needed to play those videos.

@gloewa And videos don't play even after have updated the libffmeg.so file to one compatible with the Chromium version?

Video works on the Snap version?