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Why do people use Opera? It's a proprietary Chrome fork owned by a Chinese company.
There was a lot of BS advertising not long ago about it being a web browser "for gamers", whatever that means.
Gamers are easy to market to.
they still sponsors lots of youtubers and marketing now is on tab grouping (available on most browsers), theming (which is weaker than vivaldi, and maybe zen too) and ai (all browsers can open a web chat app). but they market to people who are using edge or chrome by default, and to them, it looks fancy.
i enjoy being spyed on by china. and before the whataboutisim, i dont mind that the US or Canada spies on me.
You can also be spied on by me if you'd like to.
Just send your search queries to me.
For extra espionage, I'll even make sure to use non-privacy respecting search engines (like Google, Yandex, Baidu) and AI for your queries.
Sounds good.
There is a good chance that this guy is a bit counter-cultural and does not want to use the obvious version of anything.
Look at the Windows mail client he tried to go with.