Opera Browser is owned by a Chinese company
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thegeneral last edited by leocgi have been seeing these comments for a while all over the internet . Is Opera Own by a Chinese company ?
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thomasmca last edited by
According to Wikipedia:
Opera Software AS is a Norwegian software company, primarily known for its desktop Opera web browser, and its mobile counterpart Opera Mini.
The company changed ownership when Otello (at the time, Opera Software ASA) sold its web-browser and consumer businesses along with the Opera brand to a Chinese group of investors in 2016, with the deal completing in November of that year. -
leocg Moderator last edited by
@thomasmca Not exactly correct. Otello was created after Opera have been sold to the Chinese group. In fact it is the new name of the part of Opera that wasn't sold to the group.
At first they tried to sell the whole company but that attempt was blocked by some anti-trusting agencies. So they decided to split Opera into two companies: one covering the browser development and the consumer business and other covering the rest and sell only the first one.
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thegeneral last edited by
@leocg This second part of your statement i had always known , but my question is can opera still be trusted as a browser ?
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leocg Moderator last edited by
@thegeneral Only you can answer if you trust someone or something, since it's 100% personal.
If you are asking if I still trust Opera, then the answer is yes.
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thomasmca last edited by
@leocg I was just quoting Wikipedia. Now you know why many universities do not allow Wikipedia as a reference on college papers!
@thegeneral China has proven that they cannot be trusted, and the company that owns Opera has a history of morally questionable activities unrelated to computer software. Need I say more?
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thegeneral last edited by
@leocg forgot to ask which company that spilt up does the development of opera browser
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thegeneral last edited by
@thomasmca that is why i ask cause recently i have heard reports of the now ceo in some trouble of fraud
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