Posts made by erikdourns

To resolve such huge privacy breaching problem Opera must make 2 improvements:

1. Remove all cooperations with all 3-rd party dishonest or at least "not very trustworthy" services as Yandex, VK, etc. Can keep more reliable services Google, MS, Facebook.
2. Add possibility to block all additional services which collect users data as Flow/Sales/News/Massengers/etc and OperaID before installation.

Otherwise now it is probably better to not install Opera at all.

Opera privacy states:

• When you install an Opera application, a random installation ID is generated. We may collect this identifier, as well as your device ID and hardware specification, operating system and environment configuration, and feature usage data.

• To provide you with more relevant news content in certain countries and languages, we collect some information about the articles you read in the application’s native news feed, and your general location. This information is linked to a randomly generated News ID and may be stored on our servers

• Based on advertising IDs and your general location, some of our mobile applications may serve targeted ads. These ads are provided by our monetization partners.

• Some of our applications use Firebase Authentication by Google to provide a quick and simple authentication service for your user account. To enable this service, you agree to share your email, phone number, user-agent string and IP address of your device with Google and Opera.

That's too much.

If even Microsoft Edge (also based on the same Chromium engine) collect the similar data - all this data will stay at Microsoft servers, when Opera shares and sell all this data to a 3-rd party scums and dishonest bloody advertisers as Yandex etc. :(((

Seems rules changes: Want privacy - don't use Opera!

I've just test it and seems that Opera MHTML saving are too poor - it does not save any active elements as JS, HTML5 sound/video, etc. Sometimes even on open page structure is a mess. But Firefox "Save Page WE" plugin save all this and always save pages correctly.

Seems that Opera became a hostage of Chromium which have some powerful sides, but a weak sides have too.

When a new chromium based Opera was released - it was announced as a most secure browser. But when I install a new Opera version I see not only a too much of integrated external services as WhatsApp and Facebook etc, but also a some "known as an aggressive personal data stealing services" as bloody Yandex - the "Yandex Zen" functionality which are turned on by default. Also Opera now have a some annoying "buying advertising popups" which must be based on a Google products and searches, etc.

• Does Opera send any statistics or personal data to Google or even a dishonest Yandex?
• Does Opera exchange with Google/Yandex with a personal user ID?
• Does Opera send a individual CPU SN to Google/Yandex?
• Which negotiations Opera have with Google/Yandex?

@leocg
Ouch, does this function update again and now becomes always-accessable?!

Hello,

Opera have some "history of changes" at MHTML-saving possibilities: old versions have this function; then new Chromium-based don't have it on start; then it becomes possible to turn-on mht-saving from deep chromium settings; then this option was removed from chromium settings; but it still works via special opera start shortcut command; but it also was removed and now mht-saving does not work anyway.

At this aspect your Opera are really loses to the main competitors, because new Edge have possibility to save pages as most comfortable and useful format mhtml by default, Firefox have a very stable plugin for it, thus only Opera can't save pages at BEST archive format for a web saving - MHTML.

MHTML is the best because:

• html + folder = does not save resources, images, etc;
• html + folder = it's too bulky, makes a files mess;
• pdf = does not save any scripts&actions and also split complete web page to a crooked slices A4 pages.

Thus exactly MHT/MHTML - is the only one useful and comfortable possibility to save web pages!

Please, fix it!

Hello,

I really love Opera browser except some very important problems. Problems related to screenshots I post here.

You integrated screenshot function was a really stunning when it was released! Great job! But after half-full year also Firefox and now Edge get similar functionality to take in-browsers pages screenshots.

Unfortunately now Opera screenshot functionality are the most poor and outdated.

1. Firefox have possibility to auto-scroll page to take "a full page screenshot", Opera does not.

2. Firefox always takes good screenshots without any bugs, but Opera at some sites at scrollable area display a damaged fonts and/or backgrounds.

3. When user needs to take many or often screenshots - Opera is the most annoying because for saving as file only Opera each time open the default folder path and don't remember path where previous screenshot was saved. It's really annoying!

Please, fix those problems!

Hello,

I really love Opera browser except 4 important problems, 2 of them connected with Firewall I post here.

1. I have 3 browsers - Opera, Firefox, Edge. Also I prefer to block at Windows Firewall all inbound and all outbound traffic by default, except individual enabling rules. When I setup firewall as I need - Edge works with only 1 allow rule, Firefox works with only 1 allow rule, but Opera don't work even with allow rules for all *.exe from Opera folder! Please, tell which exactly firewall rules your Opera needs to work through "block all by default" Firewall?

2. It's very annoying to use Opera with Firewall because only Opera (not one of Firefox/Chrome/Edge/etc) after each update changes it's main folder and thus path to a main opera.exe. You must resolve this problem by using folders with version as backup, but use current active version from one constant folder like "Active" or "Current" thus it's path will not change after each update!

Waiting for your help with #1!