So you think they are not out to get you? Look what FireFox is doing!

Opera was developed in Norway and it is still headquartered in Oslo, but I think it did get bought or partially bought by Chinese money. However I think they operate like a Norwegian company. And the Opera browser for the phone seems to work really well.

Don't rich kids parents just buy the diploma?

This is what it comes down to.

It is not really the same browser anymore. Apart from the fact that the user interacts not in the same way with Opera anymore (a lot of stuff has changed), there is also something with Chrome, a partnership of some sort I think. The extensions Opera uses now are Chrome extensions.

One or more of the original developers of Opera simply left the Opera project, and one has developed a new browser (I forgot its name). Brave comes to mind but I don't think this is the one. I think it's Vivaldi.

Get a bit acquainted with Pale Moon and Waterfox. They are Firefox similes, but have their own characteristics. Pale Moon in particular is nifty and fast and has its own extensions. But I effectively trashed it for Waterfox anyway, a couple or 3 years ago, for some reason.

Now I have been noticing Waterfox is not all it claims to be either. Whatever.

But it's good to try out different browser IMO, and also to be able to switch when the need arises. I might go back to Waterfox, Opera or even Firefox temporarily if I see a need or if I think it might be useful.

Right now I use Brave a lot, in conjunction with Waterfox - alternating with Edge and even Internet Explorer every so often.

What is it based on?

Brave has a feature called "Brave Rewards".

I find it annoying more than anything else, but it is supposed to let you earn some money in some way. You'll find out if you use it. Until now all I earned is about 1 or 2 US$, lol... it might be more useful to you than it is to me, who knows.

I've been using Brave browser for about 2 years now. I'm not crazy about it but I like it better than Chrome of Firefox.

And it gives you some cryptocurrency every month to keep using it. Adds up to about 3 or 4 dollars a month, just for using the browser.

If GLP ever registered with brave, I could donate all my Brave Rewards to it.

Try Google?

By now they don't care. They have their 30% of the market or whatever it is.

I used Vivaldi for a while years ago. At one moment, on opening the browser I had lost my previous browser session, and all my open tabs were gone.

I didn't dare use it as my everyday browser since that time.

But what browser are you going to use? Tor is not a browser. If you use Tor Browser, it comes with Firefox.

I use Bing as a search engine for the rewards program it has. Just sign up for a microsoft email and you get reward points. You can also link it to your phone searches for even more. Last year I cashed out for $110 in amazon gift cards which is damn amazing since it's as close to free money for doing nothing as you'll get. You can't get actual cash but there are tons of other gift cards you can get with it

For a browser I use Microsoft Edge, they just released a totally new version that came out of beta only like six months ago. It's really good. Has a beautiful dark mode theme. It's not nearly as much of a resource hog like Chrome or Firefox either which is very important for me as I multitask often with CPU/GPU/memory intensive tasks.

No idea what they mean from a privacy standpoint but let's be honest - if I'm using Windows I'm sure Microsoft already has backend access anyway.

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If it's some Chinese, It's Chinese. Like it or not.

Just don't join the study.

Princeton? The origin of the Urantia Book.