@himmelsheriff Thanks for the links.

One tweet I found interesting:

As we state there: Some of the data we use is considered “personal data” under applicable law. However, even when we use personal data, we generally have no way of actually identifying you as an individual, and our users are essentially anonymous to us.

That's a good sign. Will need to dig further into things though.

A question: Is there any way to tell what data is sent to their Chinese owners or other Chinese entities?

Hi.

There's a lot of negative info out there on Opera's privacy. After skimming through sections of the privacy policy myself I don't feel very at ease, as it doesn't seem to be specific about what information is collected and used for what.

I know we could dissect the privacy policy sentence by sentence, but are there any trustworthy resources out there that have dug into Opera's privacy issues and have a made a write-up or something to digest?

@leocg Thanks. How can you tell - is there anything in the privacy statement that says they don't? I know Opera's GDPR compliant so maybe there's some regulation there that says they can't export to say China?

I don't mean to be a pain in the butt on this privacy topic though, but I'm thinking if in fact it is so that Opera can be configured with pretty good privacy, and we get some (even more) destilled breakdown on this topic, hopefully this thread may serve as a source of information (in layman's terms) for other potential Opera users in the future.

Ideally, though, the Opera team itself would published a short summary of it's privacy policy written in layman's terms. As of now I - speaking for myself - have read through a lot of the privacy policy, but are still left with the impression that something's iffy. I'm sure the privacy policy for other browsers are just the same, but as Opera has gotten quite a lot of backlash regarding privacy they could benefit for going the extra mile in ensuring privacy concerned users that Opera's not worse than other alternatives.

@himmelsheriff Thanks for the links.

One tweet I found interesting:

As we state there: Some of the data we use is considered “personal data” under applicable law. However, even when we use personal data, we generally have no way of actually identifying you as an individual, and our users are essentially anonymous to us.

That's a good sign. Will need to dig further into things though.

A question: Is there any way to tell what data is sent to their Chinese owners or other Chinese entities?

Hi.

There's a lot of negative info out there on Opera's privacy. After skimming through sections of the privacy policy myself I don't feel very at ease, as it doesn't seem to be specific about what information is collected and used for what.

I know we could dissect the privacy policy sentence by sentence, but are there any trustworthy resources out there that have dug into Opera's privacy issues and have a made a write-up or something to digest?