So I Loved Opera GX but I found a post in r/browsers that a guy said I heard that opera gx sells my data to china Iam very worried about this and if this is true I’ll switch to a new browser…
Unless maybe you’re migrating to Tor for your browser needs, someone is getting your data probably.
There’s no real evidence that Opera collects data for the Chinese government outside of them being a subsidiary of a Chinese firm. Even if it were hypothetically true, what would China do/care about your data? Presumably you don’t live there, they won’t be able to do anything as intrusive as US companies would be able to. Are you regularly handling state secrets or something?
No as Opera is based on Europe with strict data protection.
Random people on r/browsers sometimes make all sorts of wild claims, it doesn’t make them true.
It’s fake. Don’t worry about it and keep using it cuz you don’t have anything to worry about. It’s a crhromium based browser. It works like chrome, let the poor chinese people do their normal work. Btw selling data to the Chinese government is illegal
Someordinarygamers made a great breakdown on this, tldr no, cause opera is based in Europe, data protection laws here are very strict
Basically every browser collects your data tbh, opera is probably one of the least collective though.
Hello! This is not true. Opera is actually headquartered in Oslo, Norway, and as such it is under European jurisdiction. This means that Opera handles user data according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We do not share data with any government or authority.
You can read our Privacy Statement for more details about exactly what kind of data we process, and how, but in brief: We only use anonymized user data to personalize content and ads to you according to your interests or where you live. Even when we use such personal data, we generally have no way of actually identifying you as an individual, and our users are essentially anonymous to us - we neither know, nor do we wish to know who you are and what you do online.
We hope this helps - let us know if you have any more questions!
r/browsers lied to me…
Oh Thank You, I recently Searched on google for that it said no Opera norway is a trusted company doesn’t sell your data to china.
Thank You For Your support !!
Thats sound like something the chinese government would say!
Thank You Opera Team!
Just The Story Started r/browsers when a guy posted about opera gx sells my data to china
Thanks For Conforming !!
See this r/browsers thread, it explains everything:
People hate Opera because it’s Chinese.
Thanks I’ll read it soon.
yet they use reddit which is partially owned by Tencent, a chinese company
Romania, a country with history of stealing