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Originally Posted by carld
I've been using Opera Mini for ages and have never heard anyone complain about privacy concerns. It wasn't until Amazon showed up that people freaked. I think there's some FUD shoveling group-think going on here.
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One of many (heck it was raised back in the Symbian version days):
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...or_iphone.html
And those in the know (IT Security field etc) have been well aware, and discussed the issues around for awhile.
Even Wikipedia has this nice line (more specifically around SSL which Amazon is unclear on as people attempt to parse their statements);
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When visiting an encrypted web page, the Opera Software company's servers decrypt the page, then re-encrypt it themselves, breaking end-to-end security.
Due to this, Opera Mini should not be used for critical applications such as Internet banking.
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For the people who don't care, that’s fine, my qualm is that most people don't truly understand how this stuff works (my mum etc), nor do I believe that with many of these things (elements of Facebook, Google etc) people would choose to op't in if the company was explicit with specifics upfront in a non-legal language manner that people understood. This approach specifically to delivering the web is rather invasive, and people weren't too happy about companies like Nebuad that did behavioural tracking via your ISP (
http://gigaom.com/2009/05/19/nebuad-bites-the-dust/), I personally don't see this to be much different.
Anyway just because you don't care, or don't appreciate all the implications doesn't make it FUD.