The niche but beloved web browser Opera got an artificially intelligent makeover Tuesday, with new and useful-looking AI features, as...
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142Y

Sheesh, Opera remember when Opera was the best choice for users with slow internet? Remember the great built-in email client and XMPP clients? Now…this?

The tab stacking and visual mouse gestures were awesome back in the day! I’d never use a modern Opera product (and stopped after they switched to Chromium) unfortunately the company that owns it made a bunch of money through predatory payday loan apps in a few developing countries.

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Oh yeah I totally forgot about gestures. That was a neat feature at the time.

OrangeCorvus
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Who gave the approval on the
“OPE-
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ONE”

It’s bad, really bad. If they wanted to have it split they could have at least played with it like this:
“OP
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ONE”
Make it sound like the new browser is OP and it’s the era of ONE, One Opera. But you know, whatever.

DarkThoughts
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I already don’t trust a Chinese browser in of itself, so I’m sure as hell not going to trust a Chinese browser with an integrated AI.

millions
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Not trusting a company that offered predatory loans with my data

Though I don’t trust any company/ai with my data I think most people here do

blobcat
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They changed the UI a bit, added 2 useless features and called it a day. Who the hell needs 5 different browsers?

GuyDudeman
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Why climb a mountain? Why eat an elephant? Why wear pants?

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