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Data of course! Opera (the company) are one of the big players in mobile advertising. They have their own mobile ad platform [0], and a few years ago acquired a
by lucaspiller 11y ago
Data of course! Opera (the company) are one of the big players in mobile advertising. They have their own mobile ad platform [0], and a few years ago acquired a couple of agencies that specialise in mobile advertising [1].
[0] http://operamediaworks.com/ http://operamediaworks.com/
[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/16/opera-snaps-up-mobile-theory-4th-screen-for-26m-in-mobile-ad-push/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/16/opera-snaps-up-mobile-theor...
- a_imho 11y agoIf they can support a secure, adless, anonymous desktop browser for PR exposure by relying on the mobile version displaying ads I would be ok with that.
- Flott 11y agoThis is exactly what I fear. It's still a useful service but I believe Opera should say clearly what they do with the data they handle.
- EugeneOZ 11y agoConnection is encrypted
- niij 11y agoTo their servers.. Allowing any non end-to-end encrypted information to be harvested at Opera's VPN point.
- EugeneOZ 11y agoOr your provider, or Opera, or own server with VPN. For majority of people setting up own server is too complicated, so it's much better than nothing, especially when you are in place where you can use only non-secure wifi network.
- Spivak 11y agoJust to point out, if you have a distaste for this monetization strategy and you're reading this in Chrome I've got some bad news for you.
- niij 11y agoHow so? I'm genuinely curious what information Google collects? Is Chromium better to use in this case?