Opera vs Vivaldi vs Brave | The Web Browser Comparison

[@SiTang]

Every browsers are Chromium based. We are getting less choices than ever before. I choose Firefox

[@hidde3454]

Chromium is opensource so that is why most browsers are made with it

[@MarkHobbes]

@@hidde3454 Still leaks data for Google, if not, why would people bother creating Ungoogled Chromium (desktop) and Bromite (mobile)?

[@hammerheadcorvette4]

@@hidde3454 Managed by Google...

[@mickmoon6887]

Try ungoogled chromium

[@MatthewWilliamsX]

Why are there no Firefox based browsers in the spotlight?

[@denkendemens651]

I use Vivaldi for everything, on all my computers, at home and in the office, on Mac and Linux. Wonderfully customizable, good privacy tools built in, all the Chrome add-ons available, and indeed a good sync.

[@dawidpastuszka3027]

Yeah, pinch to zoom and smooth scrolling is the best feature of Vivaldi

[@MrVampify]

Used to use firefox exclusively. Been a happy vivaldi user for about a year now.

[@gogogogogogogogogogog9]

chris : "brave is minimal" surf : "am i joke to you "

[@rwbimbie5854]

Grand Pappy LYNX is the fast minimalist web browser

[@gogogogogogogogogogog9]

but not GUI

[@encycl07pedia-]

@@gogogogogogogogogogog9 The only thing you "need" a GUI browser for is JS support (I know there are like 2 whole TUI browsers that support JS, but their implementations don't work well at all). I can actually watch YT videos with only mplayer, Lynx (with the right config), and frambuffer. Links2 is pretty good, as well.

[@encycl07pedia-]

​@@gogogogogogogogogogog9 The only thing you "need" a GUI browser for is JS support (I know there are like 2 whole TUI browsers that support JS, but their implementations don't work well at all). You can even watch YT videos without a GUI or JS.

[@SNTrepie]

Old School Opera was the weird browser with all these seemingly gimmicky features we take for granted today. I'm pretty sure it was the first browser that had tabbed browsing. And I liked the mouse gestures and built in email and IRC client that it had too. Just like the Netscape of Ye Olde. I was sad to see it fall so far.

[@me_me361]

It didn't fall

[@richardz6049]

Firefox and Vivaldi.

[@francescocerasuolo4064]

totally

[@parthvsquare7762]

Bookmarking is awful, android app feels broken. If you have android and pc it's sync is better than both as it let you directly push to specify device (if you have enabled sync ofcourse)

[@halobread]

@@parthvsquare7762 Actually, firefox beta is better than firefox on mobile, but on pc its fine, both are.

[@hilayf123]

same

[@tinangnhat7742]

I try so hard to stick with firefox but no back to chromium base Vivaldi with better speed dials over awful ugly bookmarks in firefox and extreme slow sync in firefox mobile

[@peterjansen4826]

No Firefox in the comparison? Opera is the atrocious one, right? Edit: I will even make fun of them if they use(d) Opera before watching this video. :p Keep up with the times, guys.

[@peterjansen4826]

@@ReallyNotTrix1 Chrome is considerably worse than Firefox! Tell me, why does Google keep itself starting up on Windows (probably via a service) even if you remove it from the startup-programs in msconfig? Most likely because it spies on you. If you think it isn't, it certainly is spying on you while you browse the web. That is how it knows which ads to 'serve' you. Mozilla has done some bad things too. There was some telemetry on limited scale without the user his permission, I don't like how Mozilla pushes its cloud-feature (Pocket, I need to get into the config to remove it from the bar), Mozilla was incredibly late with adding multithread-support and for years there were new serious bugs regularly. But at the moment it has multithreaded support, I haven't had any noticable bug for 1-2 years, it is relatively light on resources and you can disable potential telemetry in the GUI which is more than what can be said of Chrome. If you are stuck in the Google-ecosystem for whatever reason, then at least use Brave. I have been using Firefox since before it became hip to use either Firefox or Chrome and to bash Internet Explorer, Chrome didn't exist back then.

[@peterjansen4826]

Needless to say, Firefox is at the top of my list on a big distance from the nr 2, if I would have to use a Chromium-based browser then it would be Brave.

[@uniqhnd23]

@@ReallyNotTrix1 Wait are you kidding me? Google listens? Uh, nice joke?

[@robinlillian9471]

I hate Firefox's forced updates.

[@WolfiiDog13]

@@ReallyNotTrix1 Firefox is actually really good, I don't see much of a problem with it. And even though I usually love Google's Stuff, I absolutely hate using Chrome, I can never get it to work the way I intend

[@kcharles8857]

I was totally Firefox, had been for years, then I found Brave. I love it for precisely the reasons quoted here.

[@rafaelcastellar]

I'm doing it right now. That's why I ended up right...

[@NoxDaemon666]

It's probably the best, objectively speaking, but it uses up way too much ram

[@redwood3723]

Brave for android is shit.

[@himeshwaghela5510]

@@redwood3723 fr

[@jerrolighgfeather3114]

@@redwood3723 at least it works better than Chrome

[@aflyingpumpkin1073]

The main seller on Vivaldi for me is the split tab function, also Vivaldi's custom CSS function means that you can make it look however you wan't and add new features. I currently have custom CSS to make my Vivaldi look like Opera GX.

[@mr_red13]

Does it have workspaces like Opera?

[@billyguthrie3176]

@@mr_red13 yes

[@billyguthrie3176]

No thank you i do not want my browser looking like anything Opera! I have known countless people who kept having malware until i had them uninstall Opera. You couldn't pay me to use Opera! I will stick with Vivaldi an i am glad that Vivaldi allows you the ability to make it look however you want it to.

[@kirezar]

The thing I can't live without from Vivaldi are the mouse gestures. Yeah I know you can add them to other browsers and opera was known for mouse gestures for a long time, but even with add ons on other browsers, I can't seem to get the same experience, and I find myself trying to use them outside of browsing, like in the explorer, or steam, or whatever has navigation, and getting getting really confused when they don't do anything, that's how much I'm used to mouse gestures and how they improve all my web browsing flow

[@filip6702]

Firefox all the way... Chromium is too big atm, privacy nightmare and will become new IE.

[@praetorxyn]

I tried going back to Firefox. It's too hard to dark theme (ShadowFox still isn't as good as just Chromium plus Dark Reader), and Dark Reader doesn't work near as well in Firefox. Haven't had any problems with Brave. There's also that none of Mozilla's stuff respects the XDG spec on Linux, and Chromium does.

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Firefox is great for many and I have tried to switch to it multiple time but it just never stuck with me.

[@Xeno_Bardock]

I think most people who used Firefox who didn't want to use Chrome have switched to Waterfox as its more privacy respecting than Firefox and Chrome.

[@npswm1314]

Firefox takes up WAAAAAAAAAAAAY to much memory and CPU to even be useful anymore.

[@rwbimbie5854]

LYNX uses less ram than other browsers

[@spaceiswater6539]

Nice video Chris, I have been using Brave since it was in beta and I love it, I have no problems whatsoever with Brave's sync function on Linux, Windows and Android all the bookmarks are always updated on all devices. Also when using Vivaldi in Fedora I noticed you cant resize the browser if you want it really small like you can do with Brave, Vivaldi also does not seem to block any of the adverts in KZbin like Brave does with great ease.

[@billyguthrie3176]

Maybe back then but now you can adjust the browser header and title bar scaling seperately from the content in the browser window. that's one of the things i like about vivaldi. also Brave does not let the user round the corners of the interface if they so desire!

[@simonestarace5249]

0:55 I was expecting *Internet Explorer*

[@caramelpepsi2582]

Tried Vivaldi once. Never looked back, absolutely love the customisation. built in ad, tracker and cookie blocker. Tons of themes. it's just awesome.

[@demianm1845]

@Annoying Elitist i have the normal default vivaldi, and its a lot better than firefox, opera, and brave in terms of performance, at least, in my rig, the latest updates is improving a lot the performance of the browser.

[@hypercrack7440]

I used Vivaldi, Immediately turned back to Firefox

[@demianm1845]

@@hypercrack7440 nobody asked you m8

[@hypercrack7440]

@@demianm1845 Nobody answered you m8

[@SeantheBawse]

I was seriously about to install Opera until I was like "Maybe I should double check..." Thanks, dude!

[@TheOneCloudless]

Same. Great content

[@josephgerman2674]

So sad about Opera. They were my favorite --all the way back to the Browser wars... I dropped them last year. Tried Brave --it's speedy, but uses TONS of system resources. Might switch to Vivaldi. Love the creativity of the old Opera team.

[@RoadRunner1980]

Love Vivaldi since the moment I started using it.

[@TaskForceStudio]

i just started to try it now but wow im amazed by its features

[@doomslayer6075]

@Road Runner me too

[@sw1tchpoint]

I personally like Firefox and Vivaldi in my everyday use I find them snappy quick and having the features I want for daily use without any background shenanigans

[@sw1tchpoint]

@RedPlayz #StandWithUkraine well to be fair this comment is over 2 years old

[@CheapHomeTech]

Damn, I've been using Opera as my main browser for 15+ years. Brave has become my number two browser. I suppose I'll switch Opera out for Vivaldi... Thanks for pointing out things I did not know.

[@malcaniscsm5184]

15 years ago, Opera was still pretty good.

[@GX2re]

I've been using it for 10 years, time to to move it is

[@CheapHomeTech]

@rrobertt13 I use none of opera's special features. I don't use any browsers special features. Opera works well and is fast. Much faster than vivald. Plus Opera has cli options and vivaldi does not. Fortunately vivaldi works well enough with default and assumes the second parameter is an url. So you can set vim to open vivaldi to the url your cursor is over with no issues. Despite making Vivaldi my default browser I still like Opera more. Especially Opera's snappiness.

[@MG-vi8wo]

i actually like Opera GX, Why everyone hates it so much.

[@minahambleton512]

@@CheapHomeTech I've been using Opera as my main browser but it's been rather slow recently.

[@donporter8432]

Gonna give Brave a try. Maybe it will feel more "peaceful". Thanks Mr Chris.

[@bobgrimes8618]

I used Opera when it was one of the very few OS/2 browsers in the 90's and early 2000's.

[@dyln8141]

Does opera decrease ping in gaming? or it doesnt' affect ping in game

[@yaantsudnbesdai972]

I used it from its inception till about 2012 when it ditched its original design and originality and became a "Google Chrome" clone. In its early days, for me, it was easily my preferred browser... I didn't even KNOW until just now that the Swedish company who invented "Opera" had sold it to a Chinese conglomerate...

[@mickyuh5796]

I'm not gonna lie, I've been a loyal devotee of Opera, ever since I had it on my Nokia "feature" phone in the o.g. presto days(And I will forever rep Opera during those days)..... But man, this has been an eye opener.I had no idea that one of the co-founders left cause the Opera that I knew and loved was losing its soul. Honestly I just stumbled into this video while checking out what other browsers there were , for curiosity with no intention to change, but now I feel like I have to. Thanks for the heads up man, subscribed!

[@uncertain_luei]

"Imagine having a browser which sells your data and false advertises a 'VPN'" - This post was made by Brave/Vivaldi gang

[@mylifeisamememylifeispathe3140]

😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐

[@amalvince]

Chrome: I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that

[@mattmatt9324]

imagine being just a bad ripoff of chromiul This post was made by the Firefox gang okay i'm being harsh here, but the chromium monopoly is a really bad thing

[@ibodhidogma]

Opera Man: "I feel so dirty. So used."

[@mtk3587]

Opera man made Vivaldi, it wasn't the founder's fault.

[@MehmetKozal]

exactly :(

[@dylangodofwar]

@@mtk3587 yeah it was the Chinese dudes that made opera gx (I think) and now it’s like a fucking malware at this point

[@greenjihad3390]

One concern I have with Vivaldi is that it is not entirely open source. But I understand why since there are features about the browser the company behind it doesn't want made known. However, in many ways Vivaldi Tech's transparency can make up for this.

[@MichaelJHathaway]

I use Opera, vpn out of Texas and sign up for everything as Chris Titus...

[@MichaelJHathaway]

I use Firefox/Brave also

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Hehe, well done sir!

[@MAGAMAN]

You are using a Chinese owned browser. You think that VPN really does anything?

[@miniflamingo9299]

Chris Titus Tech opera gtx is way better and I switched today it’s amazing

[@mtk3587]

@@douganderson7002 What do you expect? Its in his name and pfp. 😂

[@atefbenothman1737]

Vivaldi for me , I've been using it for a good month now. I have absolutely no complaints. The big plus in my opinion the way you could put multiple tabs into one and display them the way you see fit. For exemple you could put A python tutorial youtube on the top half of the screen under it a jupyter note book next to a terminal in a very practical way. And alot of other practical features

[@atefbenothman1737]

@Minister Mozy already did lol ^^

[@geoman1420]

Vivaldi user for the last 2+ years...

[@josejaimeceja3979]

3 years here

[@DandyDook]

I decided to ditch Windows for Pop!_OS recently, and it came with Firefox pre-installed, so...I'm just using Firefox now. I was using Opera on Windows for some time, didn't know it was this bad.

[@imhemish]

it isnt bad, just vpn is bad and opera is awesome

[@ScottFoster482002]

I switched to Vivaldi from Opera a few months ago and I couldn't be happier. I also use Brave browser and Firefox on occasion. There are some websites that aren't compatible with Brave and Vivaldi. I will use Firefox or Edge to fix that. Never the less, I am very happy ditching Opera. I recommend these browsers to anyone who will listen.

[@CryoStrider]

What kind of sites aren't compatible with these browsers?

[@robertlunderwood]

That sync problem is the major reason I switched from Brave. I originally tried Vivaldi a few years back when it was in Beta. When I went back to it a couple months ago, it was perfect. The sync works as it should and the side panels are awesome. Opera is too creepy now and Firefox is too woke.

[@DuffyLONER64]

**Me watching this on Opera:** Oh. I used to use Opera up until 2016, when I switched to simply using a Chromebook for high school. Just redownloaded Opera today, only to be disappointed with it not looking as nice as I thought it once did. Came across your video, and will officially be making the switch to Vivaldi! Thank you! Edit: I'm now using Brave

[@matyasmarkkovacs8336]

About 5 years ago I switched from Firefox to Opera and I use it till today as my primary browser, but I rarely use it's VPN. :D

[@ballerrr273]

stop

[@matyasmarkkovacs8336]

@@ballerrr273 Nope. I like it. :)

[@johncalorino675]

Him: 8mb down 1 up. Me with a 3mb wifi: ._.

[@marcinkw.858]

CTT: Opera is atrocious... Me: Do I even have an Opera on my system? Searching... Aaaaaa f... sudo pacman -R opera

[@skeltom4719]

lol

[@marcinkw.858]

@rrobertt13 I don't think so. I'm keeping my Arch up to date.

[@Maxuras]

I used Opera 12 until it started no loner working on many sides (and bothered me to update to the "new" Opera, which I did not want). I then switched to Firefox for a while, which was good but when Vivaldi finally got a reputation for being reliable I picked that up and did not regret it. I still have Firefox installed for obscure plugins but for everyday browsing it's Vivaldi which feels much better then Firefox to me, as someone who barely ever closes his browser. Never checked Brave out, though, sounds like a good alternative.

[@jeff2363]

Could you do a video on how you setup your desktop? Haven’t used awesome wm in a while and never used it with mate too. Thanks.

[@jmozart198]

A good friend of mine uses Opera, they switched out chrome for Brave and have had no issues and managed to earn about $50 worth of crypto, however they preferred Opera to Firefox. After I showed this video to them, they will definitely never use Opera again. Thank you for this wonderful information

[@LordCarmesimXXVII]

Edge and Opera GX are my favorites. So sad that Opera can't be trusted.

[@gsf_cat1697]

but if you're using opera gx, which is made by the same company that owns opera, which is a Chinese company that recently acquired opera in 2016, what's the difference? you're still using opera in theory

[@augustop360]

Opera gx usa seu Pc para minerar bitcoins

[@Panic_Pickle]

I’ve been using Opera since 2015 ish, I think, and it’s served me well. I miss the early versions having great tab management, I don’t get how that got dropped. It used to be the fastest of the major browsers, and still supported flash when the other major browsers dropped it. So it’s great to see this video now and realise how far it’s fallen and what it has become haha, I haven’t looked at browsers in years.

[@wacesferpit]

Firefox gang here; Don't want a Google monopoly of the web, And custom CSS for interface is just amazing And if you don't like Mozilla for some reason: Waterfox, Icecat, Pale Moon, Basilisk, Tor

[@ChrisTitusTech]

I support Firefox as well, I just wanted to make a comparison video for those chromium based users out there.

[@rogelva04]

I downloaded opera couple of days ago and now... I'm uninstall it and getting myself Vivaldi thanks for the info

[@sebastianradakovits]

I am slowly and willingly entering the Linux cult.

[@Isaacthemaniac]

It’s not a cult. ITS A WAY OF LIFE! ALL HAIL ARCH,DEBIAN, THE OTHER ONE NOBODY USES

[@jeanpol1836]

Welcome to the dark side, we have cookies.

[@JoDoSa]

I used to use Opera for work, because of the lateral bar which helped me organizing my work. When I learned about the problems of Opera, I switched to Vivaldi, because it was the most similar in terms of the lateral bar use. For my personal use I have Brave

[@catalinnic9356]

Firefox

[@ananon5771]

just switched from firefox to brave,its been great

[@AbduleeFtw]

I used to use Windows with chrome but now I use that Brave on Arch here...

[@XueHuaPiaoPiao69]

What a switch!

[@rons3634]

Long time Firefox user. Tried Opera years and years ago. It just didn't feel right to me. Now using Brave and really like it. Was going to try Vivaldi, but after this video, no thanks. I'm a minimalist at heart.

[@jonstump]

Thank you for this video. I've been watching your stuff for a little while and saw this pop up as a suggestion. I decided to see how my recent browser of choice, Opera, would fair against Brave and Vivaldi. As soon as you mentioned you would make fun of certain users for using a specific browser, I figured it was Opera and became interested to know why. Boy oh boy did I not know those things about Opera. Bummed me out since I have used them on and off for decades and had no idea they had gotten sold. The entire thing made my recent move to Manjaro pretty funny. See I decided to do it because I broke Opera trying to get video codes and HTML 5 properly working on Pop. Basically I couldn't use KZbin anymore. I saw this was a one click install for Manjaro and was quite excited. Sadly I'm on a laptop with hybrid nvidia graphics and the solutions for that on Manjaro have a ways to go in my opinion. I really hope to see that all fleshed out soon (especially with the recent Gnome updates) as I think long term I'd rather be on Manjaro after using it. Pop tends to "just work" more often than not for me and the fresh install has actually done a lot to improve overall quality of life. And now that I've swapped browsers I don't need to worry about youtube not working and accidentally breaking anything trying to get codecs installed (seriously I found like a dozen walkthroughs to get those working and none of them worked for me. One of them literally made it so Opera wouldn't launch). I've now swapped over to Brave as my main browser. Added bonus for me is it's chromium based so I can now use certain tools (jitsi) without having to open chromium. So again, thanks for this! This single video caused me to wipe an OS and uninstall a browser from my Windows partition. I can't think of another youtube video that caused me to take so much action in a single day.

[@uueight9227]

I installed Opera recently on Windows 2000. Very nice that Opera is/was still supported there.. .. w00t.

[@InkubusGames]

I am so sad about the Opera. Back in the day when it had integrated email client, Opera was my favorite browser. But now it is just a memory...

[@pjfsr7024]

Yeah, was one of the reasons I started looking for a different browser, ran 12.0X for a long time and when they sold I bailed.

[@XAE_A_Xii]

i think vivaldi is great for work: especially if you are a bookkeeper and need to work with few tabs at once. Also for admin people who spend much of their time copying and pasting data from one source to another.

[@rey6253]

I am an Opera user and have been happy the whole time when using it in windows. it is snappy, way better than chrome, very customizable and I love some of the features about it, like play-in-play mode which is better compared to other browsers etc. The sync works perfectly fine for me, never had a single issue in my laptop nor in my mobile phone. Trying to push people to use vivaldi just because you claim the synchronization is the best in vivaldi browser its a complete misleading fact too my eyes. Also when u mention about different opera scandals pls make sure to put some links or references from your sources in the video description, this would help people to understand how valid/true is the proclamation. About the performance I can say that from my experience vivaldi never performed better than opera.I am not against vivaldi by any means, i like it but its wrong to say don't use opera because you have vivaldi. Furthermore opera has some really handy features which blocks the ads & trackers, and i can say that it does it very well, even better than some installed extensions like ads blocker etc.By default in opera you have a really nice sidebar with all handy tools you need which to my opinion looks way better than in vivaldi! When u say that opera is dead in terms of new features/innovative features you can not be more wrong than that! opera is adding more and more features and it has everything a normal user needs. And i can tell that the reason why i moved from chrome to opera is just because of so many features it supports by default. I can list a ton of them if you like! But, there is always a but.... opera in linux sucks when compared to other browsers(havent tried vivaldi thou): why ?! because too my opinion its not very well optimized(opera team does not seem to care a lot for linux users), which makes it slower to the windows counterpart and it consumes a lot more resources compared to the windows version. The overall video message: dont use opera because there is vivaldi!

[@BrianHartman]

I'm a VIvaldi guy. :) For me,the killer feature is tab stacking. I love being able to organize my tabs so I don't have 20 tabs open on one level, making the tab labels unreadable. :)

[@markoantonio0913]

I use Opera to browse and download videogames and movies, and I love it so much :) Vivaldi is pretty good in Windows but in Linux it freezes a lot on every website I visit, even if I disabled javascript & flashplayer it keeps freezing up. My Top favorite browsers for Linux are Google Chrome, Firefox and Opera :)

[@Lanzetsu]

I stick to Opera because I don't care about my data, I don't buy stuff from it and they give me almost everything I need in a browser from a long time ago, specially the Telegram + Messenger chats in a nice fashion. The similar functionality in other browsers come from extensions which usually doesn't work that well or can't connect, also I have it synced with my cellphone always. Anyway and being said what should be said, the video was quite informative and useful for comparing Brave and Vivaldi, thanks a lot.

[@theignorantphilosopher4855]

Of course both brave and Vivaldi is based on Chromium, so there you go. If you don't like Google, which you shouldn't, there's small issue there. I for one would like to know of any sufficiently mature and up to date browser, that is entirely free and open source. Does such a mythical creature even exist? And no, Firefox is not an option, because it sucks balls.

[@qgban6743]

Chromium is a open source project independent of google. Chrome is Chromium+google's own bells and whistles, nothing more. Edit: I meant independent of google chrome

[@theignorantphilosopher4855]

@@qgban6743 To say that Chromium is independent of Google, is simply wrong. It is independent of Chrome, more or less. You may well be right in as much as those who base a browser on Chromium, has complete control (though I rather doubt it), but there are also other questions to take into account, like: Do you want to support Google? If you use a product based on Chromium, you are supporting Google. It may not always be obvious exactly how, but you are. Of course you are. There's no such thing as a free meal, at least not from the likes of Google.

[@qgban6743]

@@theignorantphilosopher4855 oh my bad, that was a mistake. Anyway my point is for any open source project if something bothers you you can always fork from it, like vivaldi did from opera(it isn't open source though).

[@trekscape8550]

I've used so many browsers over the years - Firefox, Vivaldi, Opera, Chromium, Brave, and many others - the latest version of Opera is absolutely the best performing for me - it beats all the others. No other browser is faster and it is rock solid stable and runs smooth as silk - extremely user friendly. It has some GREAT features the other browsers lack. My experience with Opera has been so good, I intend to keep using it as my main browser. Just one thing - use whatever browser you like based on your own judgement - don't make a decision based on what some tech guru says.

[@Proditae]

Thank you very much, i've been using Opera since Three years because of it's really good performance on my computer (2009 tech) and even thought i saw the little video LinusTech did on Opera GX were he touches upon the topic of the predatory behavior and data selling, i got finally convinced by you, and also got two replacements. Thank you Chris

[@Davidx27731]

a former chrome user here, Personally at first I was not really interested in any of the topics feature in any tech channel, hence I only thought for no reason at all google chrome was the best, but once I got curious about linux distros I got to this channel and others and started disliking a bit google services, of course I couldn't get my head totally out of them most because I'm here in youtube, I started searching for other browsers and thanks to this video I got to vivaldi and actually I switched to it, I love how easy it is to customize and the feature of the webpage screenshots has proven really usefull for me. I've never considered opera and even less after this video, thank you so much for this video chris, yet I have one question: What is your opinion regarding browsers for smartphones. again, thank you for your work! :D

[@grayter]

I've been using Vivaldi for about 2 years now?..LOVE it...I promise if you try it out..you'll love it too...this is coming from someone that's been through FireFox, Chrome, Opera, etc .. It was actually developed by one of the guy who created opera..so it has some familiarizes there..if privacy and multitasking is your thing..give it a spin..

[@danielfernandes1010]

About the VPN not encrypting any data: how did you confirm this? I used Wireshark and found that the data was encrypted indeed. But many people say otherwise. Is this just some feedbacking of rumors or am I missing something here?

[@ChrisTitusTech]

The VPN only encrypts browser-based activity to Opera VPN Servers. The VPN is also hosted by SurfEasy which operates out of Canada which is a 5-eyes country. So they would be obligated to turn over any information about your browser history. The VPN also keeps logs and tracks user activity. The only encrypted tunnel is from your PC to SurfEasy in Canada using AES-256 encryption. Also, this is a glorified proxy as you can do the tests yourself using the following Github project. gist.github.com/spaze/558b7c4cd81afa7c857381254ae7bd10 Do tests on it yourself and come to your own conclusion. I honestly could have made a 10-minute video just roasting Opera, but cut it down to a couple minutes just for the sake of brevity.

[@tostoday]

I wonder how many people browser hop :)

[@Simulati0n]

I browser hop almost as much as i distro hop.

[@Simulati0n]

@Crazy Cat i havent use opera in a long time, currently on firefox. Was a vivaldi fan and brave, kinda just ship since i was a long time ff user and when i heard it was faster with quantum update i jump ship.

[@Matty__Matt]

In high school, I used to rock Opera on a USB drive. I installed it on there and toggled the data saver on. Doing that allowed me to go to sites like KZbin that were blocked. And I do remember the VPN being super super slow which is why I used the data saver. Which allowed you to bypass some blocked sites because it compressed the site in a way that allowed it to get past the filter the school had. It was the only way to do it because installing software on school computers took a long time because they are slow. However, I have used Vivaldi which I have deemed way better than Opera and the Co-founder of Vivaldi is the same man who was the CEO of Opera.

[@Matty__Matt]

I just watched more of the video and saw you mentioned the statement I just mentioned in the last sentence.

[@memesneverdiememesarelegen7350]

Opera devs watches the video: *Ha! ofc the worst one is Brave! like who knows about it anyways?!* Chris: *I'm about to end their whole career*

[@maxsievers8251]

Opera and Vivaldi are proprietary software. The only free browser you mentioned in this video is Brave. I recommend Falkon. It's the current KDE browser. Remember that most of today's browsers are based on khtml as it was that good and that far ahead of all the crappy popular browsers at the time. Konqueror was the first browser to support CSS 3.

[@Highchurch]

Being the first to implement a feature doesn't really mean much years down the line when everyone else catches up

[@northof-62]

Been an Opera user since the beginning. It saddens me to have to leave, but I didn't know - honestly. Thx

[@Wintelburst]

Laughed hard when the TotalAV ad popped up in the end of the video in brave browser...

[@nightmarenova6748]

0:15 I'm guessing opera

[@simonestarace5249]

IE: IT WAS ME BY ALL THE TIME 😂

[@SIeipner]

I ditched Opera the day it was known that a chinese company bought it. Even before that I wasn't too happy after they ditched the presto browser for chromium. Not because the engine was bad, because the browser went bad. I am now using Vivaldi and I'm very happy with it.

[@MrHRScrc]

Hi Chris, thanks for the video, i think that maybe you forgot the huge security/anti-tracking featured system on Brave, witch is the reason that I use it. I agree with you with Opera. Geez, for real, is even legal that browser? LOL . Anyway. Vivaldi, yes and maybe, since that I don't use any Google app anymore and cloud sync's in hands of any company is not thinkable for me anymore. Go forward to the new Nextcloud Chris. Privacy matters :) :=P

[@geraldeaton9722]

The worst overcomplicated browser I have ever tried is Vivaldi. Opera kills it for ease of use. I would prefer Edge to Vivaldi.

[@patrickbodine6010]

I use Opera. Change my mind.

[@xanrerkazuki9929]

From what I understood from numerous articles, only threat to your privacy is the opera vpn. Don't use it and you are good to go with opera. Personally I'm a firefox user and I use opera only for accessing sites through vpn.

[@mqcapps]

Love opera....used it for years... they all sell your data....vivaldi is moody....

[@brother_sothoth]

Bro get a life and get Brave Browser

[@manbirjudge8415]

I also use Opera and love it to much and I do not want to lose it. 😭😭😭

[@aaronmontgomery2055]

my issue with vivaldi is that it isnt as good on mobile

[@malcaniscsm5184]

Man it's sad what happened to Opera. It used to be so fast and customisable and innovative. Welp.

[@65svein]

Relax, he did not include his favorite browser Chrome, because Chrome does the same, collects data for the money.

[@Lycanite]

I'm watching this in Vivaldi. :D

[@jenkem420]

I'm an opera user. I dont use the vpn and I don't sign any loans. Where's the problem? As you are free enough to categorize every Opera user as a ret.ard, I can do so too: ret.ard.

[@midnight8ngel]

I uninstalled Firefox finally after years of it being so slow, and swapped it out for Vivaldi. So many great features, and it's fast. Brave is my number two, my wife uses Chrome, which I'm not a big fan of.

[@MrChildYeeter]

Same happened to me when using firefox . Also for me vivaldi and brave has the best UI Tbh

[@theodorespittnikov5470]

*Chris Titus* 3:13 I think the subtitles didn't translate the best VPNs you mentioned correctly. Google just found other things that have nothing to do with it. Could you provide the names and, if possible, the corresponding sites? TY. thumbs up

[@n4p3r0]

Hardened FireFox > everything (In terms of security)

[@ivo2296]

On one side Brave tells us how good for privacy is, on the other hand sells user's data under the table - pls do your home work. Nice video btw.

[@bharathrayabandi2380]

What is ur response towards those legends who use *U C Browser* ?? 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@renko8065]

UC is ass, one of the worst browsers ever

[@Josh.Proctor]

I stopped using Opera full time when I found out about the sale to China. Didn't want to use Chrome because Google is listening to everything, so I went back "old school" and got back into using Firefox. Been using Vivaldi for the last several months now though. Have also used Brave in the past. I love both of them for different reasons. Brave because of the security centric aspects of it. Vivaldi because of the balance of security, usability, and user friendly modding. There are a few minor issues I have with Vivaldi if I'm nitpicking, but not anything that I haven't gotten used to.

[@JeermynRex]

I'm using Vivaldi.

[@garreswe]

I've been a very stubborn Opera user since it was paid. I've always liked it because it's always been very innovative with new interesting features and the developers are Nordic so I want to give them a little support. I don't care that the owner is Chinese and that the monetization situation isn't the best, I'll see ads independently of browser and I don't care if some company sees which pages I've visited. One thing that has annoyed me a long time is the bad syncing between devices and now It forgets that I've logged in several times a week so I'm switching to Vivaldi. I hope it has better sync functionality, that's the most important thing for me.

[@waw4]

I had no idea Opera had turned into a disaster, so thank you Chris!

[@areceemaz]

8 computers, Win & Linux, anything Google is NOT allowed in our house.

[@yacovassaraf]

Opera killed vivaldi for me ❤️ !

[@lordsgate7774]

Same here

[@fxvam]

For some reason Opera runs faster than Vivaldi on my mac.. Am I making a bad choice for sticking with Opera around

[@cristi.5]

Yeah well I think you should try Brave or FireFox because Opera steals and sells your informations

[@GX2re]

Just downloaded Vivaldi after this, damn

[@DavidIstre]

Hilarious profile pic! Myspace... the good ole days!

[@zenutopia2k708]

What's your opinion on the Palemoon browser Chris? I like it better than Firefox, but have heard concerns about security updates being late/etc.

[@ricks8473]

LOL...Bring back Mosaic!

[@RobertShaverOfAustin]

This is as of three years ago. I'm seeing a lot of marketing about Opera. I also saw that one of your more recent videos talks about four browsers, none of which was Opera. Have they improved it or is it still as bad as it was when you checked it out? Thanks for a great channel.

[@yomurita]

Chrome vs Chrome vs Chrome :^)

[@Maledis87]

@rrobertt13 Vivaldi looks really nice but brave looks exactly like chrome. Vivaldi has a different look which it really works well

[@petitio_principii]

@@Maledis87 Brave still has the more rectangular and compact design of Chrome, which is now all rounded and somewhat more padded.

[@gentlerain3245]

did Vivaldi ever make complete Visual Bookmarks and drag n drop ease like its integrated and synched in like featured in Opera Browser? I know some Firefox and Chrome extensions got to make Visual Bookmarks but in all those cases the add-on creator either abandoned the project, discarded it or made some malicious change that broke Terms and was removed. Once your favorite Bookmark add-on gets lost, you lost your bookmarks. Browsers seem to outlive add-ons so I'm better off looking for things as built-in features rather than add-ons.

[@Bhethar]

I'm watching this on Opera. On the same day I decided to stop using my chinese Xiaomi phone because its creepy.

[@RyukUK]

I honestly didn't even know about all that shady stuff that Opera has recently been doing, until today. When I watched a couple videos (including this one) on the topic.

[@MrinalSaurabh]

Haha.. Safari is worse than Opera..

[@peterjansen4826]

Chris, do you frown upon using some free VPN-website just to read a news-article if there is regionblocking?