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Being anti-user isn't about providing an overwhelming value to all users of a product, but to make sure that no user ever gets stuck with no way out. Opera v12
by Mithaldu 9y ago
Being anti-user isn't about providing an overwhelming value to all users of a product, but to make sure that no user ever gets stuck with no way out.
Opera v12 is a great example of that. There is no browser with its feature-set. In purely objective terms all other browsers are strictly inferior when it comes to usability and range of features outside the web rendering core. It also provides a number of data storage features. Now Opera ASA has given up on it, and because it's closed sourced not even small things like changing SSL ciphers can be fixed.
So millions of users were forced to switched to worse alternatives, and some were forced to manually extract their data.
The kick in the butt about this: There's a leak of the source code on the internet, but collaboration on it is nigh-impossible because any site hosting it is breaking copyright law. This despite Opera v12, with the Presto engine, being 100% and entirely abandoned and with the sale of the "Opera Browser" to a chinese malware company, there not even being any way for the public to know who actually owns the rights to v12.