Interesting Opera blog review

[Jerry3904]

I use Opera as my go-to browser on desktop, laptop and phone--and have really found it terrific on all fronts. So I was interested to read this blog post that my son sent me:

https://arstechnica.com/information-tec ... -reborn-3/

I think the dark theme is gorgeous, especially with an MX wallpaper!

[skidoo]

Monitoring the operabrowser subreddit, the only recurring user compaints I've seen are folks reporting difficulty accessing//viewing google-related sites n services (cannot playback 60fps youtube videos, general youtube and gmail difficulties). However, I've encountered (and bookmarked) some readings which are "less enthusiastic" than that arstechnica article...

opera-blocks-ad-blockers-on-search-page-results
ghacks.net article: January 23, 2019

Opera made no mention of the change in recent Opera changelogs.
Developers find information about it on Opera's Dev website:

By default, extensions are not allowed to access and manipulate search results provided by most built-in engines.

operabrowser subreddit topic: Opera is spyware? (contains a reading list o' links, citing various articles)
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related: Sept 2018 forums.opera.com topic: can-opera-be-fully-trusted
The OP therein also cites various critical 3rd party articles; interestingly (to me),
this topic exists in the official opera forum, has not been censored.

operabrowser subreddit topic: how_good_operas_vpn_is
(takeaway: slow, and the "vpn" is actually more like a proxy than a vpn)