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You have mistaken Vivaldi for Opera.

Opera was sold to Chinese investment fund, they are scamming short term loans in Africa now.

Vivaldi was created by old Opera exec with same goals as old Opera. Their problem is not being scammy, neither is privacy. Their biggest problems are code quality - UI in javascript is sloow, closing tabs or fullscreening youtube video takes one full second. Then there is culture of secrecy - pretending open source by dumping uncompilable tar.bz2 code shreds from time to time and keeping bug tracker behind closed doors in order to not show how (not) many people work on it and what bugs they ignore for years.




Ok, that's fair, thanks for pointing it out, but I thought also that Vivaldi also had part Chinese ownership.

There's also this: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/




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