Opera on Threads

[u/CaramelCraftYT]

[u/artm04]

Wait but… Opera IS a browser. What’s the joke then?

[u/Nebula_Wolf7 → u/artm04]

Nah, that's just propaganda that google wants to spread, you get chrome or you get firefox, and that's it.

[u/DeusExMarina → u/Nebula_Wolf7]

Edge and Safari will be very upset.

[u/Nebula_Wolf7 → u/DeusExMarina]

Edge is chrome-based, safari is only for people willing to spend five times as much for the same product

[u/Hakuchii → u/Nebula_Wolf7]

i use apple products for work, let me tell you... safari is the ms edge of apple... its use is to download other browsers (or in my case have an additional browser to test websites to make switching between 2 browsers more obvious (different icons and layout)

[u/alterom → u/Nebula_Wolf7]

Edge is chrome-based

So is Opera. Sadly.

cries in Presto engine

[u/Chilzer → u/DeusExMarina]

Edge is still Chromium-based under the hood though, but you are right about Safari.

[u/EarthToAccess → u/Chilzer]

Inb4 someone breaks Apple’s rules and makes a new Safari-based browser

[u/BurningPenguin → u/EarthToAccess]

Safari uses Webkit engine, which is open source.

[u/oraw1234W → u/BurningPenguin]

Also the App Store on iOS forces browsers to use Webkit.

[u/EarthToAccess → u/BurningPenguin]

Webkit itself is, but I was talking more akin to how Edge is basically a reskinned Chrome type deal — basically, someone just yoinking Safari and changing things up

[u/PoxyDogs → u/EarthToAccess]

That’s what every browser on iOS is and Orion on Mac is.

[u/EarthToAccess → u/PoxyDogs]

So I mean, iOS I guess I hadn’t thought about

…What is Orion?

[u/PoxyDogs → u/EarthToAccess]

Orion is a WebKit based browser for Mac and iOS made by the people who make the Kagi search engine. It’s actually really cool on iOS because it lets you install chrome and Firefox extensions on iOS.

[u/OrangeisBadforYou → u/DeusExMarina]

There's no such thing as "Edge" or "Safari"

God gave us two browsers, Chrome and Firefox. Anyone claiming to "use" something else is just lying to themselves.

[u/TheSWATMonkey → u/OrangeisBadforYou]

safari came first tho

chrome split from it

[u/No-Heat-6149 → u/Nebula_Wolf7]

I use Firefox on PC and Opera on mobile. It is just more efficient for me.

[u/Ok-Show-7438 → u/Nebula_Wolf7]

All browsers are either Netscape or Internet Explorer at the end of the day

[u/DontBeASerialKiller → u/artm04]

yeah that's the point i think. the structure of a onejoke but in the opposite spirit.

[u/alterom → u/artm04]

Wait but… Opera IS a browser. What’s the joke then?

That it protects your privacy and doesn't identify as any particular browser, so it'll be harder to fingerprint you.

At least it's been a feature of Opera for, like, 25 years (back when you had to fake the User Agent string to get a reasonable website instead of "This Page Can Only Be Seen With Internet Explorer" error), but with so many trackers on the web, "I identify as a browser" is wishful thinking at best.

[u/jahguswrld999 → u/[deleted]]

right wingers trying to be hip with kids: "okay we're gonna make the same joke we've been making every day for the past 12 years. i identify as-"

[u/MallAgreeable5538 → u/[deleted]]

Wait since when is opera right wing? Or was it Mozilla with the based takes a few years ago?

[u/ApprehensivePlay50]

I cant tell if this is transphobic or not because they ARE a browser

[u/Dry_Ear_3631 → u/ApprehensivePlay50]

Knowing what they post on Twitter, they are absolutely not transphobic

[u/alterom → u/ApprehensivePlay50]

I cant tell if this is transphobic or not because they ARE a browser

Not transphobic.

You can change the way the Opera browser identifies on the web without any add-ons (i.e. make the server think you're using any other browser).

It's been a feature back from the old days when some web sites wouldn't even load if your browser was not Internet Explorer.

[u/hyperbitey]

Disappointed

[u/The_Stryker → u/[deleted]]

All browsers spy on you, why do people only care if it's China?

[u/tycraft2001 → u/The_Stryker]

Not all browsers.

[u/AltDetom555555b → u/tycraft2001]

FIREFOX KEEPS WINNING

[u/stopeatingminecraft → u/AltDetom555555b]

I means the fox isn't that great either, since telemetry is enabled by default BUT AT LEAST WE CAN TURN IT OFF

[u/TheSWATMonkey → u/stopeatingminecraft]

the humble librewolf:

[u/The_Stryker → u/tycraft2001]

Well I mean the common ones besides the goat

[u/YTriom1 → u/The_Stryker]

I do care and that's why I use open source community maintained forks of the big 2

[u/Exciting_Double_4502 → u/The_Stryker]

Racism.

[u/WetOnionRing → u/[deleted]]

why china lmfao? It's the CIA doing the spying

[u/WetOnionRing → u/[deleted]]

It runs off of Chromium which is what's important anyway. Also, it's the CPC, the CCP isn't a thing

[u/WetOnionRing → u/[deleted]]

"CCP" is a western invention. Why is that thing a video

[u/WetOnionRing → u/[deleted]]

Is that the work of the super scary evil ccp too?

[u/Unknow_Handlebar → u/[deleted]]

Oh I hope they do

[u/Depressed-Dolphin69]

Hopefully this is just a distasteful joke rather than genuine transphobia cause this joke is coming from the company that turned their Twitter pfp into two men kissing for pride month. Different socmed manager, probably.

[u/NatiRivers → u/Depressed-Dolphin69]

The specific image they used has been most commonly used as a meme rather than genuine support, by the way. So, that doesn't really mean much.

[u/Jhud6669 → u/Depressed-Dolphin69]

I don’t know if normal Opera account is run by the same people as Opera GX (technically two separate browsers), but even if it was then I would not be surprised if it was at least semi-bigotry lol. The opera GX social media guys were Polish and as a queer Pole I know first hand transphobia is still considered „funny”, here people often have this attitude that as long as you don’t literally want a minority dead then you can’t be bigoted. It’s stupid but that’s how it is here.

Also that image is a meme and is rarely used in a sincere way, it’s usually more like „haha look two black men kissing so funny”

[u/Depressed-Dolphin69 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah now that I say it out loud I do realize my comment was kinda dumb oof

[u/DawnTheFailure]

Just another reason opera is garbage

[u/dancingthroughstars]

either opera is being supportive or a chud piece of garbage

because it IS a browser

[u/TheStrikeofGod]

Yay transphobia being parroted by corporations now :(

[u/hu-man-person → u/TheStrikeofGod]

But they are a browser

[u/Syphist]

I mean they made a stupid "gamer" browser. Of course they say shit like this.

[u/Orichalcum448]

daily reminder to install firefox

[u/mrbobcyndaquil]

Ts is why I use Librewolf and Fennec

[u/AccomplisedDeer → u/mrbobcyndaquil]

Librewolf, my beloved <3

[u/Kira-Of-Terraria → u/mrbobcyndaquil]

every day i learn about the existence of more browsers

[u/mnyrtt]

opera is ass anyway

[u/alterom → u/mnyrtt]

Vivaldi all the way <3

[u/Enderbraska_CZ]

Is the "joke" in the room with us?

[u/lexi_fan]

I mean... Technically

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