Strange outgoing connections requests
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A Former User last edited by
I run latest Opera Beta and I use to allow any connections with Little Snitch. Today instead I took a more reasonable approach and thought to allow only connections which "make sense". So I discovered that Opera Beta asks for odd connections at startup. To name just a couple, the Bank of Ukraine (bank.gov.ua) and the European Central Bank (ecb.europa.eu). I just quit Opera Beta then.
Maybe you have a good reason to request such connections, but I'd really like to know which they are. -
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A Former User last edited by
Thanks for your reply. I just discovered that Ukrainian currency is the hryvnja. Is the currency converter somewhere among Preferences? Maybe Personal news? Or do you mean this: https://dev.opera.com/blog/opera-42/ ? Yet I don't get the use of connecting straight away to Bank of Ukraine; why not to Bank of Myanmar or Burkina Faso...
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@lester said in Strange outgoing connections requests:
Yet I don't get the use of connecting straight away to Bank of Ukraine; why not to Bank of Myanmar or Burkina Faso...
Bank of Ukraine is their source for Ukrainian currency exchange rates.
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
@leocg said in Strange outgoing connections requests:
You should be able to disable currency converter in settings page.
It seems I can't. The only partially relevant option I can find is Preferences > Browser > User Interface > On text selection convert currency. If I uncheck it still Opera connects to banks. To be honest, I don't like it at all. I can live with it, but I'd like more documentation if not transparency. Thanks.
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