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[–] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 161 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What's Opera based on? My friends mostly use Mac, so they all use Opera and Chrome, but I have gotten them to stop using Chrome.

[–] Angius@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nearly every browser is Chromium-based. Additionally, Opera is Chinese-owned.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Opera was bought by a Chinese data analytics company, and once that happened, they scrapped their engine and used chromium to save money.

They have questionable CCP ties too.

[–] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 15 points 1 year ago

Opera has unfortunately given up and switched to Chromium as its backend.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

At least its not chrome