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Opera spyware?!

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Pantso:

quote:Originally posted by MisteR2:
Actually Opera isn't that bad. Anytime I'm on win2k and I need to do something that mozilla based browsers can't do, opera is pulled out as a last resort. Damn near anything IE can do, opera can do, only better and with much fewer bugs.
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Erm, did you read that article? Sorry, but if this were true, then I wouldn't dare go anywhere near Opera, let alone use it! Use Mozilla! It is standards-compliants, propably the only browser that really is, and quite fast and stable!    ;)

[ April 22, 2003: Message edited by: Panos ]

slave:
Those in the know use Moz

X123:
Opera sucks ass. You must really think people are stupid to pay for a browser. Now who does that apart from opera *cough* msn *cough*

pkd_lives:
Oh please, just another example of the stupidity of people not paying attention and reading licenses and copyright data.

Opera may or may not contain spyware, that is the risk of closed source software, but the function the idiot in that article is describing is not spyware it is adware, and Opera are perfectly clear about this. Clicking on ads will customize what ads you receive, you can even tell them what ads you want to receive by filling in the advertising section of their preferences. They have a privacy policy telling you what they will do with personal data, and they tell you they are going to collect it. If the guy in the article did not know this he did not read the agreements properly, and if he did not read the agreements he is stupid.

This information is stored and dealt with by a libary, hence it looks at that DLL file occasionally. There is nothing covert about this, you agreed to this when you installed the damn program and didn't buy the browser but chose to use it for free.

Calum:
well, you get what you don't pay for i reckon, which is why i use mozilla, konqueror, phoenix and epiphany (all free and open source) for web browsing. no spyware, much better stability and security than any of your opera or IE rubbish.

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