Originally posted by leushino:

What a load of rubbish. You have had a free ride for years (as have I). The company has not charged you to use its suite has it? Opera has always been a niche player in the desktop division and frankly it needed to change in order to survive. It's a BUSINESS not a charity. They have to make money. Shareholders have invested and they expect returns. Do you understand that? Conscience indeed! If you don't like the new Opera, use a former version. If you are concerned about security issues (and you shouldn't be just yet) then use another browser. But don't post such rubbish as you have above. Frankly, I'm ashamed of you.

I'd have to disagree. I can completely support Opera as a business but it is disrespecting its users right now. If Opera disabled adding custom searches, fine. If Opera did not allow a default search engine switch outside of per-installed, fine. If Opera did not allow the deletion of Scroogle, fine. But this is pure ignorance. Don't waste people's time. Either admit it's a screw up and a bug or say this is permanent.

Came across this and it's starting to make more sense. Check out Opera's Vision between May and now.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130521203337/http://business.opera.com/company/vision
http://business.opera.com/company/vision

These two sections are no longer part of Opera's vision:
• We believe in respect for our users
• We believe in privacy (also mentions social responsibility)

The new vision particularly highlights:
• We create value through partnerships

That you do Opera, much more revenue flows in when you want users to share their private data with giants.

Originally posted by rafaelluik:

There's no such a thing, as Chirpie said earlier if your browser location was Russia then the Yandex search engine would keep coming back since it's the default there. It's a bug reseting the search engine to default in some cases.

Yes there is. There is a separate deal with Google and Yandex. There is a handshake. Those two are "defaults" for a reason.

Originally posted by Chirpie:

Except Opera defaults to other engines in other countries, such as Yandex in Russia.

Google and Yandex are enemies and at war over the Eastern European search market, and yet Opera ships with Yandex as the default search engine over there.

And yet Opera loves Google?

Your inane claims are getting more and more silly by the second.

Thats because Opera has a deal with Yandex in Russia and Google in the US.

Originally posted by blackbird71:

Actually, you're not stating observations. You're stating opinions and/or jumping to conclusions.

Thanks for explaining the purpose of the update.

In terms of my conclusions, Opera is in love with Google. There is a reason why it defaults to Google. And it continues to override settings in the mobile App which is what I was referring to.

Originally posted by Chirpie:

Originally posted by stepanstas:

I don't know why Opera is in love with Google.

They aren't. They are at war with malware that hijacks Opera's searches. Remember, it does the same thing with Yandex in Russia.

So stop spewing lies.

Not spewing lies, just stating observations.

Opera gets paid for taking people to Google, it's just unfortunate that they're willing to override user preferences.

Extremely irritating.

I don't know why Opera is in love with Google. The worst search engine by my standards.

I really regret upgrading now. Now its just as annoying as the mobile app where you have to keep switching.