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Opera
Basic Information
Release Year	1995
Product Type	Web browser
In Production	Yes
Official Website	https://www.opera.com/

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Opera is a Chromium-based web browser developed by its namesake company Opera.

Opera was released on 10 April 1995, making it one of the oldest desktop web browsers to exist. It was commercial software for its first ten years and had its own proprietary layout engine, Presto. In 2013, it switched from the Presto engine to Chromium.

Consumer-impact summary

User Freedom
User Privacy
Business Model

Incidents

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This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents related to this product. This section is still in progress.

Fraudulent Loaning Services (2019-2020)

Between 2019 and 2020, Opera released multiple short-term loaning apps in developing countries, including OKash and OPesa. These apps were made available in Nigeria, Kenya and India and would let users take short-term loans. However, the interest rates on those loans ranged from 365-876% per year, and loan terms from 7-29 days. Opera also falsely advertised longer loan terms and lower interest rates in the app descriptions, because the Google Play Store had rules against predatory loan services.

Also, OKash and OPesa asked for permission to the phone contacts during the setup process, violating the user's privacy. The service would also recur to scare-tactics by sending threatening messages to the user's contacts when a borrower was late on their payments.

The money from these loan apps amounted to 42.5% of Opera's revenue by mid-2019, meaning that Opera was making profit from scamming people in developing countries.

References

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-opera-browser/

https://qz.com/africa/1788351/operas-okash-opesas-predatory-lending-in-nigeria-india-kenya

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+Opera is a Chromium-based web browser developed by its namesake company [[wikipedia:Opera_(company)|Opera]].
+Opera was released on 10 April 1995, making it one of the oldest desktop web browsers to exist. It was commercial software for its first ten years and had its own proprietary layout engine, Presto. In 2013, [https://press.opera.com/2013/02/13/opera-gears-up-at-300-million-users/ it switched from the Presto engine to Chromium].
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+* User Freedom
+* User Privacy
+* Business Model
 ==Incidents==
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+This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents related to this product. This section is still in progress.
+===Fraudulent Loaning Services (2019-2020)===
+Between 2019 and 2020, Opera released multiple short-term loaning apps in developing countries, including OKash and OPesa. These apps were made available in Nigeria, Kenya and India and would let users take short-term loans. However, the interest rates on those loans ranged from 365-876% per year, and loan terms from 7-29 days. Opera also falsely advertised longer loan terms and lower interest rates in the app descriptions, because the Google Play Store had rules against predatory loan services.
-===Example incident one (''date'')===
+Also, OKash and OPesa asked for permission to the phone contacts during the setup process, violating the user's privacy. The service would also recur to scare-tactics by sending threatening messages to the user's contacts when a borrower was late on their payments.
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-Short summary of the incident (could be the same as the summary preceding the article).
-===Example incident two (''date'')===
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+The money from these loan apps amounted to 42.5% of Opera's revenue by mid-2019, meaning that Opera was making profit from scamming people in developing countries.
 ==See also==
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+* [[Brave browser|Brave]]
+* [[Google Chrome]]
 ==References==
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+https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-opera-browser/
+https://qz.com/africa/1788351/operas-okash-opesas-predatory-lending-in-nigeria-india-kenya
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