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As I understand it, every website you visit goes through Opera's servers to be compressed + processed. Isn't this a privacy issue? When Chrome came out and star
by tensafefrogs 17y ago
As I understand it, every website you visit goes through Opera's servers to be compressed + processed. Isn't this a privacy issue? When Chrome came out and started doing query suggest (and sending your typing to google, etc.) people got all uppity about privacy, but I haven't seen one person mention privacy issues w/ the opera browser.
Additionally, as a website owner, wouldn't this skew your user stats, since the request would come from Opera's servers and not directly from the phone (not 100% sure about this, but that's how it seems like it would work).
- powrtoch 17y agoOn the original post revealing Opera Mini for iPhone, there were pages and pages of people debating the security implications. Long story short: it does break end-to-end SSL, but unless you distrust Opera as a company, it's more of a theoretical issue than a practical concern.
- jarek 17y agoEvery website you visit on your laptop goes through your ISP. Every website you visit on your cell phone goes through your provider. Yes, it's a potential issue. Yes, there is trust involved. Any stats package worth its salt would record X-Forwarded-For information, which is set by the Mini proxies: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-mini-request-headers/#x-forwarded-for http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-mini-request-header...