<![CDATA[Opera Extensions, Permissions & PRIVACY concerns!!!]]>Hello everyone! How can I block intrusive Opera Extensions from accessing MY personal data on all websites?
Why does Opera allow Extensions in the 1st place to collect our private data????

How can I block Opera Extension from collecting my data for whatever purpose ???

Thank you!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/32512/opera-extensions-permissions-privacy-concernsRSS for NodeSat, 08 Aug 2026 17:17:17 GMTThu, 16 May 2019 23:01:42 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Extensions, Permissions & PRIVACY concerns!!! on Sat, 20 Jul 2019 06:26:02 GMT]]>Amazing Jobs!!!!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/176660https://forums.opera.com/post/176660Sat, 20 Jul 2019 06:26:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Extensions, Permissions & PRIVACY concerns!!! on Sat, 20 Jul 2019 06:23:12 GMT]]>@jamesconstance

Unfortunately, a lot of extensions cannot work without interacting with websites and sending data to websites.

In the mentioned case users have agreed to the data collection/data transfer as far as I understand it. Only the sale of the data to third parties was not (sufficiently) disclosed.

In my opinion, the problem lies in insufficient checking of extensions before web browser publishers put them in their add-ons catalog, but also in too much carelessness on the part of users in dealing with their approvals.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/176659https://forums.opera.com/post/176659Sat, 20 Jul 2019 06:23:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Extensions, Permissions & PRIVACY concerns!!! on Thu, 18 Jul 2019 20:29:37 GMT]]>@jamesconstance In the extensions details you can set if it will be able to access data on all sites or just in specific ones.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/176522https://forums.opera.com/post/176522Thu, 18 Jul 2019 20:29:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Extensions, Permissions & PRIVACY concerns!!! on Thu, 18 Jul 2019 17:46:04 GMT]]>In the news https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/dataspii-technical-deep-dive/

It seems to me there should be a permission we can set that can prevent an extension from sending data to any website: without this many extensions can harvest our data and compromise our privacy.

Why is this permission not a standard obvious thing to include do you think?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/176516https://forums.opera.com/post/176516Thu, 18 Jul 2019 17:46:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Extensions, Permissions & PRIVACY concerns!!! on Sat, 18 May 2019 03:44:27 GMT]]>Unless you allow it, extensions can not read secure pages, which would include most login forms. And most bank sites, and most payment sites. So ... what private data can they access?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/171159https://forums.opera.com/post/171159Sat, 18 May 2019 03:44:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Extensions, Permissions & PRIVACY concerns!!! on Fri, 17 May 2019 22:00:51 GMT]]>I mean friend all the extensions store data, even in any browser

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/171141https://forums.opera.com/post/171141Fri, 17 May 2019 22:00:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Extensions, Permissions & PRIVACY concerns!!! on Fri, 17 May 2019 20:40:51 GMT]]>The easiest solution - do not install the extension

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/171136https://forums.opera.com/post/171136Fri, 17 May 2019 20:40:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Extensions, Permissions & PRIVACY concerns!!! on Fri, 17 May 2019 19:38:18 GMT]]>What makes you think that Opera extensions are collecting private data? If you mean the checkboxes in the extensions list, you can uncheck them.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/171134https://forums.opera.com/post/171134Fri, 17 May 2019 19:38:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera Extensions, Permissions & PRIVACY concerns!!! on Thu, 16 May 2019 23:41:22 GMT]]>Since we can't read minds yet, please complete you post with all the missing information so people can understand what are you talking about.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/171048https://forums.opera.com/post/171048Thu, 16 May 2019 23:41:22 GMT