I'm very glad, you're bringing this up. It's good to know you're looking for transparency, because that's what we users deserve. It's on the same level as your debunking the spyware allegations a while ago.
So generally my acclaim to your post here, thank you. As I said, I'm happy with you bringing thus to our attention.

But if you don't mind, I would like to give some honest thoughts about the things you say. Having a longer experience with the Opera browsers on desktop, Android and iOS I see, there are some points to mention here.

First of all, it's really great that you can toggle off a lot promotional things in the browser. You also ship ad blocking and track protection even with uBlock Origin lists. That's great.
But if you install Opera for the first time either on Android or on desktop, you'll find a lot of stuff enabled by default which you have to opt out and not opt in. Let's name a few: newsfeed, promotional suggestions, weather forecast, Cashback etc. I really would prefer if I would be asked if I would opt in (I get, you have to earn money!). Especially as you promote Opera as a privacy (respecting) browser, which it isn't exactly.
The other thing I have to mention: After a fresh installation it's quite nice to see, that ad blocking is turned on (with some default exceptions like Google, Facebook and others). But with tracking protection turned off by default, although I consider this even more important than the first.
I know it's riding on the blade: on the one hand giving user choices, on the other hand making some money. But whenever I install Opera a new, I get the impression that all these privacy opt outs (shouldn't they be opt in?) are shattered all around the settings and you'll stumble upon them every now and then. I sometimes think, I haven't yet found each of them.

So in the end, concerning privacy I generally would trust you, but not totally so. You still collect a great amount of data, don't you? And some things in this blog and your privacy policy stays vague in this respect. Nevertheless, Opera is a great browser and I only wish you could even make it better.

*Android 99.2

Hasn't a security engineer noticed yet that opening a scanned QR code immediately is dangerous? We should be able to see what's inside the QR code first and decide what to do with it! After all, a link in a QR code can be dangerous! For example, Brave simply pastes the address into the search engine—take a page from them.

@adam1709: Thanks for your feedback, we have shared it with the Product team for their consideration.

@adam1709 I support this suggestion. Certainly a good idea.

You should provide the update in the RPM repos to be more effective:

Available packages opera-stable.x86_64 123.0.5669.47-0 opera

Important updates have been released, but you have to wait a few days until they are available in the Play Store on Android 10... even though you can see that they have been released in apk.

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to my opera gx account,
I wanted to change the password and verify that all sessions were closed.