Ok to everyone saying that "all browsers sell your data!" or "I dont care about my data being sold!" That's not the point. The whole reason I wanted to make this video is because Opera as a company is very shady. They try act like they care about privacy (through ad blocker, fake vpn) to the point of making it a main selling point of the browser, when in reality all of your data is being sent to China. Look, everyone has different opinions on privacy, and whether you agree with me or not, I am NOT by any means going to use something that spies on me and collects all of my personal information. A couple years ago, a man took pictures of his naked toddler for the doctor. Since he took this picture on his android phone, the photo was uploaded to google photos. So not only did the doctor end up getting the photo, but google got it as well. They immediately shut down all of his accounts and services that he had tied with google, and a police investigation was opened because of child ab*se. The police didn't find anything and concluded that no crime had occurred. However, google didn't give him is account back. He lost years of data that he had with google. Because of trusting google with his data, he lost many valuable and important things. (This is a true story btw look it up) My argument isn't that I hate big corporations, and it isn't that my data is being sent to china. It's that time and time again, we see companies misusing it. Everyone has a different level of privacy that they want to achieve, and it only takes little things (like changing your browser) to start living a more privacy focused lifestyle. We should support the people who create these privacy focused/open source applications (such as librewolf/firefox/brave) instead of the large companies who only want to use you for their benefit. YOU should be in control of YOUR data. Not someone else. Thanks for listening to my ted talk.
If you like the old Opera check out Vivaldi, since the guy that built Opera sold it to a Chinese company and then started Vivaldi! Vivaldi does everything Opera can do PLUS More!!
Vivaldi is nice, but if you saw a browser test before, Vivaldi is currently the worst popular browser when it comes to performance, which Opera GX is mainly focused on.
@@juniorwmg I'm using it currently for commerical and normal stuff, and I gotta be honest, ive never had any lag or slow loading speeds... works pretty fine and looks minimalistic and simple. Even gave me a bunch of color options for when I first downloaded it, I use it on my Google Pixel too now. defo 10/10
been using vivaldi for 2 years and I gotta say performance is not its main focus. Vivaldi's main focus is productivity; split screen, contacts, an in built note pad, a task management system and you can integrate your own email. Which to me has been a great experience. The only flaw i think is that compared to operagx it cant fully customise the browser
As an ex-Vivaldi user, I can attest that Vivaldi is a complete _resource hog._ You think Chrome eats RAM? Well, compared to Vivaldi, Chrome merely takes light _sips_ of it.
The funny thing is that even after some RUclipsrs get sponsored by Opera, I still see them using Chrome in later videos (edited bc yall can’t tell I wasn’t saying ALL of them)
You know, when sometimes you download some malicious files that download stuff into your PC, they do not download chrome or Microsoft office, they download Opera. So that definitely speaks for something
@@Kowalski_is-bayernlogo i have never heard anything actually bad about it besides it just being a sex toy company doing youtube sponsorships for some reason
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every company that is always in your face as sponsorships is almost guaranteed to always be a terrible product / service. Opera GX, betterhelp, manscaped, raycon and more, they are all bad!!
There is also the fact that people left Opera and created a semi-open-source browser known as Vivaldi made by a company founded by people who used to work in Opera.
Chinese Spyware: Automatically bad because Chinese, send it subject it to horrors beyond our comprehension. American Spyware: Treat it like a prince with no regard for how terrible he actually is.
@@BlueeIcee Reminds me of Michael reeves then. Don’t get discouraged about your voice or appearance, as long as the quality of the video is good then people will watch it.
This is why I just don't give a crap about sponsors or ads... They always end up being sketchy, and its annoying having ads in the middle of videos. I almost always skip sponsor segments.
Former Opera GX user here! I used to use the Opera browser all the time. Once I saw like a site on the scummy things they did, I got introduced to a browser with Opera functions; Vivaldi. Even having the founder of Opera involved! Since November of last year, I decided to change browsers once again from Opera to Vivaldi as Vivaldi is a revival on, and based on, the Presto layout engine and aims to revive features from that from Opera versions 7 through 12 as well as the Nintendo DS and Wii browsers, which are based on the Opera browser. It also has features that Opera doesn't have, like a built-in calendar or two-level tab stacking.
@@trapbear48 I found out about that entire opera thing like 3 years ago, but 4 Months ago i just said Fuck it, now is the time for chrome. Just try to gather motivation and just change. The getting used to it part is not as bad as you think.
My life not knowing my private information is being sold to the Chinese government: *peace and tranquility* My life knowing my private information is being sold to the Chinese government: *peace and tranquility*
Same Google does the same shit just tries to hide it more. Alternatively, you can also use Brave but there isn't really any search engine that isn't listening in on you while deactivated in the background. Besides; it's mostly just corps trying to shovel ads to you.
I remember the first time I saw an opera sponsor, i actually did research like you said and found out about the vpn issues with china. glad you've been able to spread awareness of it with this video
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2:52 dont scare people! City is correct most of the time (its the first cell tower's location) but other data isnt the user's location, its an estimate.
Oh, Raid: Shadow Legends, the game that tries so hard to be epic but ends up being as exciting as watching paint dry. I mean, seriously, they market it like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, but let's be real, it's just another generic fantasy game with nothing original to offer. The only thing more repetitive than the gameplay is their endless barrage of annoying ads. But hey, at least they're consistent in disappointing everyone who falls for their overhyped garbage.
Opera GX was heavily marketed as a way to reduce RAM and CPU use by websites. Chromium browsers are *notorious* for hogging memory. It makes a lot of sense to make a browser built to reduce this issue. What I will never understand is why they immediately turned around and added so many dumb features like etherium wallet integration, *mods (just...fancy extensions?),* and so many gosh darn animations and sounds. They want to be the "cool guys" while *also* being performant, which is impossible, and so they end up falling short on both. They most likely spent all their budget on looks with their advertised features added as an afterthought, just so they could grab as much data as possible.
I love the mods but I get your point! I downloaded a few years ago because chrome was absolutely back-clapping my old laptop's ram. Opera solved the problem, however if I were still using my old laptop when the mods update came out, it would probably mess up everything
@@Metalalloy45 honestly for better performance, just...dont run a chromium browser. It's nice that it's open source, but so is most of Firefox, and honestly, it outpaces both chrome and opera.
@@Stettafire being a member restricts a nation's sovereignty, the UK didn't leave because they didn't like the economic benefits, they left because they wanted their autonomy.
Geo requests are standard for any program, your IP address is stored in almost any server you visit and cannot give away any exact coordinates, only approximate ZIP code and City, and even that is based on how your ISP shared such data to GeoIP providers. A VPN service generally provides data encryption between you and the VPN, and the VPN and the destination (if HTTPS is used), storing request data is sadly pretty common, but it has nothing to do whether your VPN connection is encrypted or not.
@4:05 I really dislike those who use this argument. Whenever Edge is criticized, they immediately bring up Google, saying, "Yeah, but Google does the same thing." If Opera is mentioned, they also bring up Google. It seems that no matter what the topic is, they always find a way to mention Google.
I think the RAM & CPU limiters only affect the browser itself. Allowing you to run youtube or something in the background without it eating up all you processing power. I don't think its meant to limit other systems usage of the stuff.
I had 100 tabs open on some game’s wiki looking the location of just about every item i missed and using it as a checklist, until the Game refused to run properly because it was paging like hell. Told opera to make do with one gib of RAM and it did, and the Game ran fine. Took a long Time reloading pages then, since it had to reload them from memory, but there is no free RAM after all.
Yes, that is correct. I tried to reduce the RAM & CPU usage before. And you can find lower performance in your GX browser, like you need to reload your tab if you open to many of them, or some video will be slow or glicth of you set it too low.
So massive corporation A gives my info to Massive superpower A instead of massive corporation B gives my info to Massive superpower B. Who could've thought of that !
He said that they had to follow the rules of the EU, which is entirely correct. Norway is part of the European Economic Area and follows the same GDPR privacy rules.
Back when I used Windows (before switching to Linux) I had Opera GX installed for the first month. I eventually found out it still had some programs installed MONTHS after I uninstalled.
Opera, the company is registered in Norway. Norway has some of THE best privacy laws. They could not legally market themselves as Norwegian (some ads show Norway related stuff when coming to privacy) In their legal section, they mentioned they are under GDPR A EU law considering personal data. Due to Opera GX being made in POLAND, and due to OPERA GX being owned by Opera (an umbrella company based out of Norway) in total it is subject to many many privacy and data protection laws. Their legal headquarters is in Norway and as such are legally bound to it and EU law despite being owned by China. Even then, the data they could even get is already available by other sites, so it doesn't really matter because your browser is only 1 in many MANY ways to get your data.
@@nevertheexpert U right its part of EFTA, but Opera is still subject to GDPR, via OPERA GX being made in Poland as well (opera is an umbrella company) so in total its subject to polish, Norwegian, and EU law for data privacy, and other things.
@Buglardons Ok? Still, it doesn't matter time and time again. Companies know not to mess with Scandinavian companies (who historically take these things very seriously), let alone the EU. I don't think anyone is dumb enough to cross them. Look at apple they tried to mess with the EU and loss, and so did Microsoft, Google, and many others. Opera won't be stupid, and neither would their owners.
@@twitchcoolbob66 you sound like someone who actually reads the user agreements and knows shit about laws so imma just believe you over some kid and random mouth breathers who see china and go "OMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE" Maybe you spouted a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo, but sounds legit, and is a good enough excuse to not swap browsers lmao, thanks
99% of the internet dont finance China's CCP though and when there is good solution and alternative in the corner you should use them if it's a problem at least don't make it worst.. + It's alway's good to acknowledge bad things.
@@Buglardons it doesnt matter who you give yor data to if all sides use it for the same thing, advertising products (unless you have the nuclear codes in your computer)
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I actually used to use it until they had that guy screaming as the opening animation It scared the crap out of me so much that I deleted it and switched to Brave full time- I didn’t know about the other stuff while I was using it, but I’m glad I didn’t ever go back
it does account for their Opera GX users, Statista counts by the user agent, Opera uses the same user agent as Opera GX as they're the same app under the hood
ive been using Opera GX for about 2 or 3 years, so i dont really see any point in switching to something else because i feel like all the damage that could have been done has already been done lol. if only i knew sooner i guess...
brave and waterfox are good options, also you can always export your browser's extensions, passwords and bookmarks when moving browsers, it doesn't take as much time as you might think.
Google chrome sells the same data to the US government, not saying you should use opera or anything, i'll forever use chrome anyway but I don't think that "sells your data" defines a browser as bad
People who say shit like this really don't understand how stuff like this hurts people like political dissidents in the long run, but sure it's a good idea to let the CCP own all the web browsers.
If I recall correctly, one of Opera's selling points is that it has an AI where you can give it a question and it'll give you answers. Which, if you think about it, is the exact same thing search engines do. Really implies that they only added an AI to stay trendy imo
Thats putting it way too simplistically, its not like another search engine, its like having an assistant who googles for you, goes thru like 35 reddit pages to find the one right answer, and then gets back to you :P
@@ezoni8438 AI is shit at picking out the correct or even truthful information and sometimes outright chooses to lie. it's more like having a prankster 5 year old with the vocabulary of a grown adult as that assistant
Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge could be equally bad, but I think the points that you are explaining is true. I used to use Opera a lot back in 2006-2008 before jumping to Firefox, then eventually Chrome around 2010, until today. Their Opera Mini was also so popular at compressing web pages so that you can save a lot of data plan in the 2000s. Back then, mobile internet was still slow and expensive. Opera was using their own engine called Presto before moving on to Chromium and their engine was so good when rendering SVG.
Admitting the video is a little clickbait is a W, you needed that to get your message across Great quality video for your channel size, keep it up man!
dude, I see so much potential with your channel. You definitely look prepared to become a full time youtuber in like a year or two. great job with the video, you did not disappoint 👍 also chad move for pointing out your own clickbaiting
Ok to everyone saying that "all browsers sell your data!" or "I dont care about my data being sold!" That's not the point. The whole reason I wanted to make this video is because Opera as a company is very shady. They try act like they care about privacy (through ad blocker, fake vpn) to the point of making it a main selling point of the browser, when in reality all of your data is being sent to China.
Look, everyone has different opinions on privacy, and whether you agree with me or not, I am NOT by any means going to use something that spies on me and collects all of my personal information.
A couple years ago, a man took pictures of his naked toddler for the doctor. Since he took this picture on his android phone, the photo was uploaded to google photos. So not only did the doctor end up getting the photo, but google got it as well. They immediately shut down all of his accounts and services that he had tied with google, and a police investigation was opened because of child ab*se. The police didn't find anything and concluded that no crime had occurred. However, google didn't give him is account back. He lost years of data that he had with google. Because of trusting google with his data, he lost many valuable and important things. (This is a true story btw look it up)
My argument isn't that I hate big corporations, and it isn't that my data is being sent to china. It's that time and time again, we see companies misusing it.
Everyone has a different level of privacy that they want to achieve, and it only takes little things (like changing your browser) to start living a more privacy focused lifestyle. We should support the people who create these privacy focused/open source applications (such as librewolf/firefox/brave) instead of the large companies who only want to use you for their benefit.
YOU should be in control of YOUR data. Not someone else.
Thanks for listening to my ted talk.
3 minutes ago woa
Nice video bro thanks for the Intel, do you think bing is a good browser?
Did you know that brave is even more shady than opera and google is just as bad
And librewolf is just a version of fire fox
Good youtuber
fun fact: if you reply to their tweets with “chinese spyware” they will block you
Would you like it when i responded to you on twitter saying u sucked cock in the highschool bathrooms, yeah you probably wouldn't.
Chinese pieware
My favorite
Not only is their twitter account a disaster its just full of trend hopping it reminds me of meme zee
@@catmario-l8iit is another meme zee
a wise man once said that the GX in Opera GX stands for Great Xijingping
lmao true
Specially in r/browsers lol
That Pooh Bear son of a devil.
truly the red menace
+100,000,000,000 social credit
"Game Browser" sounds like a diagnosis
"I'm sorry sir, you have Gamebrowser"
@@jonbomb1480”oh dang… what now?..”
@@CroissantCloud222 "Well, you're going to have to do something really painful, but you can still survive.... if you touch grass."
Game Browser? Or you mean Gay Bowser?
why tf my comment is most liked
"At least Google is open about what data they collect"
No WAY you believe this unironically.
still does not compare to setting your geodata to the CCP after booting
@@iu3478i don't want to be bing chillinged by Winnie the Pooh 😭
@@iu3478 Google's collection 100% reaches China.
well, who do you want to sell your data to? usa or ccp?
You don't get it, when it's an american company's spyware it's good, when it's an chinese company's spyware it's bad
If you like the old Opera check out Vivaldi, since the guy that built Opera sold it to a Chinese company and then started Vivaldi! Vivaldi does everything Opera can do PLUS More!!
Vivaldi is nice, but if you saw a browser test before, Vivaldi is currently the worst popular browser when it comes to performance, which Opera GX is mainly focused on.
@@juniorwmg Vivaldi is unknown yet does what it should
Opera GX is famous yet garbage
More ads = more likely shit
@@juniorwmg I'm using it currently for commerical and normal stuff, and I gotta be honest, ive never had any lag or slow loading speeds... works pretty fine and looks minimalistic and simple. Even gave me a bunch of color options for when I first downloaded it, I use it on my Google Pixel too now. defo 10/10
been using vivaldi for 2 years and I gotta say performance is not its main focus. Vivaldi's main focus is productivity; split screen, contacts, an in built note pad, a task management system and you can integrate your own email. Which to me has been a great experience. The only flaw i think is that compared to operagx it cant fully customise the browser
As an ex-Vivaldi user, I can attest that Vivaldi is a complete _resource hog._
You think Chrome eats RAM? Well, compared to Vivaldi, Chrome merely takes light _sips_ of it.
The funny thing is that even after some RUclipsrs get sponsored by Opera, I still see them using Chrome in later videos
(edited bc yall can’t tell I wasn’t saying ALL of them)
Most do use it sez Moistcrit
Exept pyrocynical
of course.
except maybe moistcr1tical
@@DonaldVale pyro is an idiot, he would use anything
i mean personally I'd say BetterHelp is the worst RUclips sponsorship because... yikes
Yikes indeed.
What is it again?
@@blockoboi5941 basically it was a therapy service with very bad service so… you can only imagine how that went
I just commented this lol yeah and I still see some content creators taking sponsorships from them
He literally says this at the end of the video 🤦
You know, when sometimes you download some malicious files that download stuff into your PC, they do not download chrome or Microsoft office, they download Opera. So that definitely speaks for something
"youtube;s worst sponsorship"
betterhelp writhing and twitching in the corner
Well, speak of the devil
It was mentioned in this video too
Bad dragon:
Me using opera: 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢 me using chrome:🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓😎🤓😎🤓😎🤓😎🤓😎🤓😎😎🤓
Betterhelp? More like betterdie-
@@Kowalski_is-bayernlogo i have never heard anything actually bad about it besides it just being a sex toy company doing youtube sponsorships for some reason
Got an Opera GX ad before watching this 💀
Same
I got it directly after the video :-D
typical youtube ai
Same lol
me too :c
I will forever be "that Firefox guy".
20 years and counting.
I've ditched firefox
Now I'm "that Waterfox guy"
Firefox best browser .
@@umi3017 waterfox is lightweight fork of firefox . Right ? I used it before it is very fast .
@@umi3017Yeah Waterfox is awwwwwesome. Who really needs pocket?
@@agoston9835and i use librewolf BTW,its basically firefox having even less shit than waterfox
Opera - RUclips's Worst Sponsorship
me watching this on opera: neat
same
@AntiMGHV54 the gay parts right for me lmao
@AntiMGHV54 what did we do ya hmar
@AntiMGHV54 all i like is the animated wallpapers :(
@AntiMGHV54I feel like that’s a good thing
The fact that I got an Opera GX ad before this video💀
💀
me too
same
I was on a movie site like most of the other people it automatically downloaded it with a ad on it💀💀💀💀
Same
Raid shadow legends is worse for me 😅
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It was fucking disgusting, but me and the bois milked for some money
Nah, BetterHelp is worse
@@Doodleshep14 at least they sell services
@@Doodleshep14yea
"GX" probably stands for "Gamer Xperience" or something like that.
It stands for gay sex
Gamer Xvideos
Gay Xvideos
Generation neXt
@@StarryNightLover Nah it's definitely Gamer Xvideos wdym
2:56 "todays video is sponsored byyy-"
*almost leaves*
"None"
*comes back*
Too late, I already sold my deepest darkest secrets to the Chinese government by downloading GX.
😭😭😭😭
INSTALL MINT INSTALL MINT NSYALL KINUZ MINT
me to 🥲 (i uninstalled it though)
i mean, its literally choose your potion, use chrome, edge or opera you are selling your data
@@swe872firefox is the awnser
every company that is always in your face as sponsorships is almost guaranteed to always be a terrible product / service. Opera GX, betterhelp, manscaped, raycon and more, they are all bad!!
dont forget about raid shadow legends... its literally just a cash grab and its made by a gambing company
what did manscaped do
This! If a company is willing to spend so much money to try to convince you that their product is good, it probably isn't.
@@fernefer1071he cut his balls while shaving
@@forsenE skill issue then
There is also the fact that people left Opera and created a semi-open-source browser known as Vivaldi made by a company founded by people who used to work in Opera.
Oh shoot, I use Vivaldi and I didn’t know that. Pretty cool. To anyone readin this I highly recommend Vivaldi.
I switched to Vivaldi because of the shadiness around Opera, I love it and highly recommend it as well
Replying from vivaldi! ( :
Vivaldi is by far my favorite browser 🩷
Chinese Spyware: Automatically bad because Chinese, send it subject it to horrors beyond our comprehension.
American Spyware: Treat it like a prince with no regard for how terrible he actually is.
China is totallitarian Dictatorship.
The USA are not.
B-b-but
reds are bad
@@SealandIsBestCountryit's doesn't matter what color the flags is, they are bad in their own way.
@@Cosmicy_Magey Communists are known as reds
@@Cosmicy_Mageyit’s a joke dumbass
mf looks like a teen but he sounds like a 10 year old kid
this is the best comment I have ever recieved
@@BlueeIcee I'm lucky to see it LMAO
but makes professional videos fr
@@BlueeIceeI have also been cursed with Child’s voice
@@BlueeIcee Reminds me of Michael reeves then. Don’t get discouraged about your voice or appearance, as long as the quality of the video is good then people will watch it.
This is why I just don't give a crap about sponsors or ads... They always end up being sketchy, and its annoying having ads in the middle of videos. I almost always skip sponsor segments.
Only ads I care about are game ads
@@YukiSnow75 fr
@@YukiSnow75RAID SHADOW LEGENDS PLAY NOW
The displate ones seem to be fine. A bit over priced but they come more or less as advertised.
@@YukiSnow75 then you're gonna love RAID SHADOW LEGENDS!
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well hot damn I appear too lazy to change browsers. Time to flood my search history with the most violently inappropriate queries possible.
yes, this man, CIA right here
Same bro
firefox
I got an Opera GX ad and thought for 2 seconds that it was the video until I saw the yellow time bar.
Former Opera GX user here! I used to use the Opera browser all the time. Once I saw like a site on the scummy things they did, I got introduced to a browser with Opera functions; Vivaldi. Even having the founder of Opera involved! Since November of last year, I decided to change browsers once again from Opera to Vivaldi as Vivaldi is a revival on, and based on, the Presto layout engine and aims to revive features from that from Opera versions 7 through 12 as well as the Nintendo DS and Wii browsers, which are based on the Opera browser. It also has features that Opera doesn't have, like a built-in calendar or two-level tab stacking.
Who r u yapping to lil bro
@@Wawermelon // Commenting? I mean, I used to use Opera before switching to Vivaldi a couple years later.
Gamer Xylophone
seems suspicious to me, I don't trust this
@@Sly2BandOfThievesIsTheBestSly my nigga you cant trust anything on the internet
"That's interesting.." Continues to use Opera
Lol
same
same lol I just got used to it that I'm lazy to change it
@@trapbear48 I found out about that entire opera thing like 3 years ago, but 4 Months ago i just said Fuck it, now is the time for chrome.
Just try to gather motivation and just change. The getting used to it part is not as bad as you think.
@@trapbear48 try vivaldi bro its opera but no chinese spyware, its made by the founder of opera himself
My life not knowing my private information is being sold to the Chinese government: *peace and tranquility*
My life knowing my private information is being sold to the Chinese government: *peace and tranquility*
Me knowing my private information is being sold to the Chinese government: stress and anxiety.
Yeah I like my opera gx, the Chinese can take everything they want 😂
I love this comment😂
True lmao. They can have it, i really dont give a shit😂
Same
Google does the same shit just tries to hide it more. Alternatively, you can also use Brave but there isn't really any search engine that isn't listening in on you while deactivated in the background.
Besides; it's mostly just corps trying to shovel ads to you.
isn’t it crazy how i got an opera ad right before the video played
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eh I’m fine with my Waterfox installation. I don’t care about the free part, just the open source part.
LibreWolf goated. Wish they had an Android version, can't stand all the crypto and AI ads and shit in Brave.
librewolf is ok but it has no fingerprint resistance
use mullvad browser if you care about your privacy
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I remember the first time I saw an opera sponsor, i actually did research like you said and found out about the vpn issues with china. glad you've been able to spread awareness of it with this video
Hey there! Just a quick tip for a more engaging presentation: try minimizing glances at your script while speaking. It can enhance your natural flow and professionalism, creating a more captivating experience for your viewers. Keep up the great content!
my mom tells me the same thing 😅 Although this is a video where I looked down at the script a little bit less
Kid got the script direct from Joe Biden. Lucky kid. You have a long way to go.😊
The fact i got an opera browser ad before watching this video makes it 10x better
2:52 dont scare people! City is correct most of the time (its the first cell tower's location) but other data isnt the user's location, its an estimate.
as i suspected. i think i'll stick with my firefox
Hell yeah firefox supremacy
Synth! :3
@@frostytheiceberg1127 synth!! :3
@@faxinspace Synthetik, Legion Rising.
@@juckie
real
RAID is worse
Raid doesn't sell your info to big black oily men
Let me roast them
Oh, Raid: Shadow Legends, the game that tries so hard to be epic but ends up being as exciting as watching paint dry. I mean, seriously, they market it like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, but let's be real, it's just another generic fantasy game with nothing original to offer. The only thing more repetitive than the gameplay is their endless barrage of annoying ads. But hey, at least they're consistent in disappointing everyone who falls for their overhyped garbage.
Boom
@@_crypt they're still a pretty bad sponsorship.
i got an opera ad when watching this
Opera GX was heavily marketed as a way to reduce RAM and CPU use by websites. Chromium browsers are *notorious* for hogging memory. It makes a lot of sense to make a browser built to reduce this issue. What I will never understand is why they immediately turned around and added so many dumb features like etherium wallet integration, *mods (just...fancy extensions?),* and so many gosh darn animations and sounds. They want to be the "cool guys" while *also* being performant, which is impossible, and so they end up falling short on both. They most likely spent all their budget on looks with their advertised features added as an afterthought, just so they could grab as much data as possible.
I love the mods but I get your point!
I downloaded a few years ago because chrome was absolutely back-clapping my old laptop's ram. Opera solved the problem, however if I were still using my old laptop when the mods update came out, it would probably mess up everything
@@Metalalloy45 honestly for better performance, just...dont run a chromium browser. It's nice that it's open source, but so is most of Firefox, and honestly, it outpaces both chrome and opera.
@abhinavarul ofc the NFT guy likes Opera
No, he has a point (unfortunately). There literally are settings to diable animations and sounds @@mopishlynx2323
@@mopishlynx2323let bro use his browser💀
Norway is not in the EU. It’s in the EEA.
EEA? Is that like, Extra Electronic Arts?
@@CR1MSONACE European Economic Area. It's basically just another EU except with more sovereignty.
@@futureofgeographyEU has nothing to do with sovereignty, it's a trade union.
@@Stettafire being a member restricts a nation's sovereignty, the UK didn't leave because they didn't like the economic benefits, they left because they wanted their autonomy.
@@futureofgeography well that's a funny way to avoid saying they wanted to be shittier than the EU would allow
Geo requests are standard for any program, your IP address is stored in almost any server you visit and cannot give away any exact coordinates, only approximate ZIP code and City, and even that is based on how your ISP shared such data to GeoIP providers. A VPN service generally provides data encryption between you and the VPN, and the VPN and the destination (if HTTPS is used), storing request data is sadly pretty common, but it has nothing to do whether your VPN connection is encrypted or not.
Exactly. Also one of the many reasons why home users don't benefit from a VPN
@@Stettafire Yep.
@4:05 I really dislike those who use this argument. Whenever Edge is criticized, they immediately bring up Google, saying, "Yeah, but Google does the same thing." If Opera is mentioned, they also bring up Google. It seems that no matter what the topic is, they always find a way to mention Google.
Me looking at Google Chrome: Perhaps I treated you too harshly.
No, you didn’t, both are bad
Chrome is also spyware brother.
@@ProbNotCrossThen why didn't Apple ban Chrome from their apps store?
@@IntrovertSinceBirth I don't own Mac, so I have no Idea what apple does with their products.
Chrome is cheeks, Brave is better.
I do get the sentiment though.
watching this video from 'Opera'. It's my favourite browser
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The fact i got an Opera GX AD when i clicked on this video is funny.
Honestly this channels a hidden gem, only 1K subs? And this high quality content! You deserve so much more man. God bless and keep up the good work! 👍
I appreciate the kind words!
@BlueeIcee great video
I love your work
What is your name btw. 😅
@@BlueeIcee don't you not get money under 10K?
I think the RAM & CPU limiters only affect the browser itself. Allowing you to run youtube or something in the background without it eating up all you processing power. I don't think its meant to limit other systems usage of the stuff.
I had 100 tabs open on some game’s wiki looking the location of just about every item i missed and using it as a checklist, until the Game refused to run properly because it was paging like hell. Told opera to make do with one gib of RAM and it did, and the Game ran fine. Took a long Time reloading pages then, since it had to reload them from memory, but there is no free RAM after all.
Yes, that is correct. I tried to reduce the RAM & CPU usage before. And you can find lower performance in your GX browser, like you need to reload your tab if you open to many of them, or some video will be slow or glicth of you set it too low.
So massive corporation A gives my info to Massive superpower A instead of massive corporation B gives my info to Massive superpower B. Who could've thought of that !
fr hahaha people act as if china is lucifers personification while the usa is literally the same exact same thing. xd
@@glowiedetector thats seems like a bad take. US is still a far better country than china by almost every metric.
@@glowiedetectori'd rather the us have my data than china tbh.
@@capperbuns why
@@glowiedetector because while the us is supplying military aid for a genocide, china is actually doing a genocide
the way you dissect complex topics is awe-inspiring!
2:15 you do realise norway isnt currently and never has been in the EU right?
Sorry, that was my mistake. I assumed they are. But the company still has to follow Norway's strict rules
lmao
He said that they had to follow the rules of the EU, which is entirely correct. Norway is part of the European Economic Area and follows the same GDPR privacy rules.
@@BlueeIcee Bruh talking about "researching the company" while pulling info outta nowhere, can't make this up lmao
I was about to comment that
Back when I used Windows (before switching to Linux) I had Opera GX installed for the first month. I eventually found out it still had some programs installed MONTHS after I uninstalled.
Very interesting...
Same for me on my Mac but it seems to be a lot of obfuscated code files and python files and some css files.
What are these files and how can i find them
I would also like to know what these files are
@@JameisonAus_RUclips system 32
Oh no! I can’t believe a company is selling my data! I’m going to go on facebook to complain about this!
💀💀
i hate this binary mentality where you either are with eastern spyware apps or with western ones, it's so damn stupid.
@@Puppeteer1453 true
@@Puppeteer1453that's why I gave my info to both, checkmate ♟️
Ohhh wait...... Facebook does the same shit! what a surprise!
I got the ad for it before the video started
Opera, the company is registered in Norway. Norway has some of THE best privacy laws. They could not legally market themselves as Norwegian (some ads show Norway related stuff when coming to privacy)
In their legal section, they mentioned they are under GDPR A EU law considering personal data. Due to Opera GX being made in POLAND, and due to OPERA GX being owned by Opera (an umbrella company based out of Norway) in total it is subject to many many privacy and data protection laws.
Their legal headquarters is in Norway and as such are legally bound to it and EU law despite being owned by China.
Even then, the data they could even get is already available by other sites, so it doesn't really matter because your browser is only 1 in many MANY ways to get your data.
Norway is not a member of the EU
@@nevertheexpert U right its part of EFTA, but Opera is still subject to GDPR, via OPERA GX being made in Poland as well (opera is an umbrella company) so in total its subject to polish, Norwegian, and EU law for data privacy, and other things.
@@twitchcoolbob66 cool but who own opera ? who obtain economics benefits from opera: China
@Buglardons Ok? Still, it doesn't matter time and time again. Companies know not to mess with Scandinavian companies (who historically take these things very seriously), let alone the EU.
I don't think anyone is dumb enough to cross them. Look at apple they tried to mess with the EU and loss, and so did Microsoft, Google, and many others. Opera won't be stupid, and neither would their owners.
@@twitchcoolbob66 you sound like someone who actually reads the user agreements and knows shit about laws so imma just believe you over some kid and random mouth breathers who see china and go "OMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE"
Maybe you spouted a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo, but sounds legit, and is a good enough excuse to not swap browsers lmao, thanks
"They make money by selling your data"
99% of the internet:
🙈🙉🙊
99% of the internet dont finance China's CCP though and when there is good solution and alternative in the corner you should use them if it's a problem at least don't make it worst.. + It's alway's good to acknowledge bad things.
@@Buglardons it doesnt matter who you give yor data to if all sides use it for the same thing, advertising products (unless you have the nuclear codes in your computer)
@@BuglardonsboOoOh, the ccp is going to get you. Now give your data to the US government and they will do the same thing
@@qraidbro he only thinking as long it's not Chinese,Russian or north Korean they fine with their data get sold
@@Buglardonsidrc about my stuff going to the ccp most of it alr probably has
Found u from discord
Never stop cooking man, i love your stuff
will always be cooking
rob cantor jumpscare
Reminds me of when I found a person I knew on a Discord server of a sandbox game in the comments section of a 8-Bit Guy video.
rob cantor pfp caught me so off guard i see any reference to tally hall anywhere and i go batshit insane
the second I clicked on this video I got an opera advertisement. Wow.
Me too
The fact I got a opera ad when clicking the video 💀
you forgot to finish your sentence nigga, expand your vocabulary, the fact that you got an ad says what?
Got an opera ad for this video immediately
same lol
Eyyyy me too😁
i didn't get an ad because i use the opera gx adblocker 😎😎🔥
Same
fun fact im watching this on opera gx
Very bold of you
OH NO
do you enjoy your coordinates being sent to the chinese spyware?
me too lol
@@Guest_2016 |
I kid you not, I got an ad for Opera before the video started.
Hi! Just some friendly advice. If you want to read from a script in your video you, can try either positioning the camera and the monitor you are reading from in the same spot. However, if you dont really mind how that looks that's fine too. Keep up the good content!
2:20 sorry to break it to ya, but Norway is not part of the EU.
The fact that an opera add just appeared right before this video despite me never having gotten one on this device
I actually used to use it until they had that guy screaming as the opening animation
It scared the crap out of me so much that I deleted it and switched to Brave full time-
I didn’t know about the other stuff while I was using it, but I’m glad I didn’t ever go back
Reminds me of how Air Up inadvertently turned people off their product by having people pee in their advertisements.
Hi fellow Opera -> Brave switcher lol
@@snegik ayyy hello :D lol!
it does account for their Opera GX users, Statista counts by the user agent, Opera uses the same user agent as Opera GX as they're the same app under the hood
ive been using Opera GX for about 2 or 3 years, so i dont really see any point in switching to something else because i feel like all the damage that could have been done has already been done lol. if only i knew sooner i guess...
Same with me
I mean other browsers probably do the same anyways just more quietly
dont worry other browsers will steal from u as well
brave and waterfox are good options, also you can always export your browser's extensions, passwords and bookmarks when moving browsers, it doesn't take as much time as you might think.
Google chrome sells the same data to the US government, not saying you should use opera or anything, i'll forever use chrome anyway but I don't think that "sells your data" defines a browser as bad
love watching this on opera gx
The fact I got an ad for opera gx before this began
worst? temu and various crypto related sponsors are right there
When i clicked on the video i got an opera gx ad 😂😂
0:15 WOOOOOOOOOOOO ITS JOSH 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Oh yea!
What is his RUclipsr name?
@ LetsGameitOut
You're gonna be big soon bro the quality is insane 🙏🙏
man the quality of content u got is amazing for the subs u got. I think ur pretty underrated !
The absolute irony of me watching this video in a Opera GX browser 💀💀
Oh no, now the Chineese government knows how many hours Ive sunk into researching the lore of Octopath Traveler 2.
Facts like it would hurt anyone
People who say shit like this really don't understand how stuff like this hurts people like political dissidents in the long run, but sure it's a good idea to let the CCP own all the web browsers.
@@Memmmeeboiiiiiiiii would you want nazi germany having that information
idc what it is that gets sent i wouldn't want that information out there
@@MemmmeeboiiiiiiiiiIm sure you're also that kind of person who says "I have nothing to hide"
@@danilol9417 Yes, I have nothing to hide. We need a strong authoritarian government, cry me some more anarkiddy
I got an Opera GX ad after clicking on this.
Great video, I actually didn't know any of this shady crap...I clearly live under a rock
Same 😢
It’s fake so you clearly don’t
I got an ad for opera gx on this video and thought it was a satire intro for the video
same bro i got the opera ad when i watched this
@@LepoX_YTyep thats Spyware we being spied
@@Golden_FatAssBear wait really?
@@Golden_FatAssBear or was that a joke?
@@LepoX_YT well why would we get ads related to the Browser then i feel like our Devices know
If I recall correctly, one of Opera's selling points is that it has an AI where you can give it a question and it'll give you answers. Which, if you think about it, is the exact same thing search engines do. Really implies that they only added an AI to stay trendy imo
Thats putting it way too simplistically, its not like another search engine, its like having an assistant who googles for you, goes thru like 35 reddit pages to find the one right answer, and then gets back to you :P
@@ezoni8438 Fair point, I haven't personally tried their AI so that's mb for not knowing that
@@ezoni8438 AI is shit at picking out the correct or even truthful information and sometimes outright chooses to lie. it's more like having a prankster 5 year old with the vocabulary of a grown adult as that assistant
Literally Co-pilot
@@uncroppedsoop why do i feel like you're about to tell me AI has gone woke
Its a crime not putting packgods ad in the intro
dang thats crazy… im still gonna use opera
First time seeing a non brawl stars channel use a brawl stars song thank you for using this masterpiece
I used to make brawl stars videos, check out my playlist
0:45 not the annoying brawl stars lobby music
Fr
İts Cool imo idk it sounds good
Yeah
I just got a ad for opera before joining this video-
i guess (opera) GX is a "Gaming Experience"
I admit it, guys... I am using Opera GX as I am watching this video.
6:07 munching on ice cubes is the most pog thing, it's so nice
Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge could be equally bad, but I think the points that you are explaining is true.
I used to use Opera a lot back in 2006-2008 before jumping to Firefox, then eventually Chrome around 2010, until today.
Their Opera Mini was also so popular at compressing web pages so that you can save a lot of data plan in the 2000s. Back then, mobile internet was still slow and expensive.
Opera was using their own engine called Presto before moving on to Chromium and their engine was so good when rendering SVG.
Me watching this on the Opera GX browser: 😐 well damn
Admitting the video is a little clickbait is a W, you needed that to get your message across
Great quality video for your channel size, keep it up man!
Wow, I was pleasantly surprised by a RUclips video of good content. Good stuff, man. Keep it up!
Its so ironic I got an ad for Opera GX before this video started
Me watching this on Opera GX 😐
the chinese are watching you‼️
don’t care
@@Xtrabro so then why did you comment
@@BonkGD. i was talking to other guy
@@Xtrabro oh sorry
What took me off of Opera GX was learning that it used Chromium. Firefox is good, fast, simple, and lightweight. Who needs a RAM limiter?
dude, I see so much potential with your channel. You definitely look prepared to become a full time youtuber in like a year or two. great job with the video, you did not disappoint 👍
also chad move for pointing out your own clickbaiting
Appreciate it!
I literally got an Opera GX ad before this video
The irony that I got an Opera GX ad when I clicked on this video lmao
got an opera ad before watching this 💀
Same 💀💀I thought it was the video intro at first
Same bro 😂😂😂
Crazy how I got an ad for opera before this video
I got an Opera GX ad in the beginning of this video.