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Opera mini more popular than Safari
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The fact that Safari is not available for other phones is not helping at all.
One must note that Rush Limbaugh's favorite mobile browser is Atomic Browser.
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I dislike the Opera Mini on the iPhone. It makes "non-mobile optimized" pages look even worse than Safari does, and its non-standard base navigation paradigm is clunky and gets in my way.
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There's some privacy concerns with Opera Mini, namely everything goes thru its servers in Norway. Here's a couple of articles:
Opera Mini On The iPhone – Privacy Concerns | Fischer Times
here's the really alarming privacy problem:
The case against Opera Mini on the iPhone � counternotions
"Proxy. It’s one thing for an app on the iPhone to query the web, talk to its own or others’ servers, but something entirely different for Opera Mini to proxy the entire web through its own proprietary servers. Yes, you read it right. Opera gets in between you and every single URL out there, from your bank to your school to your doctor’s office. You never communicate with any site directly, only through Opera proxy servers that first go to that URL, get a page, recompile it into its own markup language, compress and send it back to the mobile client that alone can understand it."
"Security. When visiting encrypted pages, you have to allow Opera to get in the middle to decrypt and re-encrypt (via Opera Software), breaking what’s meant to be an end-to-end security chain. You need to ask yourself if you need another potential opaque layer of insecurity between you and, say, your bank account?"
Sounds pretty Big Brother, doesn't it?
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Not really. It's a good thing to be cognizant of, and Opera should make such privacy and security concerns well known to users. For those who like the extra speed and don't care about the browser server in the middle, it makes sense for them to use the software. They can always switch back to Safari for work that requires encryption.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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