Positively Preferring oPera over the Pretenders!

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@shintoplasm01 said in Positively Preferring oPera over the Pretenders!:

@treego I think you misunderstand me. The connections come from Opera's core browser, not from the user's browsing activities (which can indeed be protected through ad-blocking). I'm talking about Opera's built-in telemetry and connections which are in addition to your own browsing. Vivaldi and Brave don't have this issue, to my knowledge.

Do you have a link to this? I see no speed decline in Opera. It seems Opera is more swift than these other browsers.

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Opera has pinboards now, too! opera://pinboards

Another great feature that is similar to Edge's "collections" feature.

"Here you can collect websites, images, links & notes, and share them with others - no matter what device they're using.

Pinboards are integrated into Opera Browser, so you don't need any account or login."

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@treego As of Opera 84, Opera now has something I don't see in any other browser -- Paste Protection.

Here is how Opera describes this cool new feature to protect us:

Paste protection
Opera 84 has just made browsing and online payments even safer with our new Paste Protection feature. Whenever you copy-paste any sensitive data, like a credit card number or crypto wallet identifier, you run the risk of it being hijacked and modified by some bad actors who want your money to land in their accounts instead.

Paste Protection protects you from this. When you copy sensitive data in Opera Browser, the data is monitored for changes for some time or until you paste the data. If the data is changed by an external application, a warning is displayed.

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Opera 89 is humming very nicely here ... still my favorite over worthy contenders in Vivaldi, Brave, etc.

Optional website panels via opera://flags is another seeming to be upcoming built-in feature that operates quite nicely here!

Flow is saving me a lot of headaches lately with going back and forth from Desktop to Phone ... love it!

I am loving the instant weather lookups in the address bar, too, now.