[OU] Updating to 9.51 don't respect my preferences.

macintoshzoom macintoshzoom at lavabit.com
Sat Aug 2 08:16:20 UTC 2008


SUMMARY REPORT:
ISSUE 1: Updating to 9.51 don't respect previous preferences settings.
ISSUE 2: Updating to 9.51 forces you to start at a preset "opera 9.51
welcome/firstrun" site.
ISSUE 3: Preferences setting identify as and mask as a different browser
DON'T WORK. These are faking preferences to deceive users.

All this issues are good for Opera to earn money because that`s the way
they have chosen to do so: Selling users data and taking commissions
from users buys.

All this ISSUES are against established key HUMAN RIGHTS (UN): privacy,
non-surveillance, non-censorship, free-speech.

this is not an honest, clean, fair way to do business for Opera (much
better the old paid way), it's against UN HUMAN PRIVACY RIGHTS, and
sooner or later this behavior will end in UN Hague tribunals.

FULL REPORT:
Once updated, I started my brand new opera with the -pd command to point
to my old 9.27 personal directory, where all my customizations and
preferences for Opera are set.

But WARNING!, Opera started WITH ITŚ DEFAULT preferences instead of my
carefullly crafted ones:
COOKIES ON, JAVASCRIPT ON, ETC.
SHIT!
I was test browsing to some sites WHERE IN NO WAY I WANT TO LEAVE
JAVASCRIPT NOR COOKIES ALLOWED, and I was fucked.
I realize then that Opera DIDN'T RESPECTED my preferences.

Is this happening to you also guys?

OPERA DON'T RESPECT PRIVACY HUMAN RIGHTS, they are acting as google
orwellian subjects.

This behavior, with the forced (NOT OPTION GIVEN!) "firstrun" opera web
page shown at every update, gives opera a way to
NOT-ASKED-FOR-SURVEILLANCE of our installs, worst, with all privacy
protection settings out! Using javascript, cookies, plugins, Opera guys
are monitoring your installs and are logging you in its databases: IP,
OS, etc.
What the orwellian ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwellian ) hell
behavior is this!

And worst, new 9.51 is still exposing to Internet details about your
Operating System (OS), browser specs, and other details, (suculent to
profile you for decades but worst, succulent also for hackers (human and
robots) to sniff, infect or steal your PC data and communications),
.. even when you chose the (fake!) given preferences "mask as firefox"
!!!!
THEY (Opera/Google guys) DON'T WANT to really allow NOBODY to MASKS
OPERA, AS THEY EARN THEIR HUGE MONEY WHEN GIVEN THIS INFO TO linked
advertisements (google, adsense, etc) AND SO.
So Opera is lying AND DECEIVING ALL OF US when saying it is possible to
mask our browser details.
Test sites to verify this:
https://www.jondos.de/en/anontest
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 (shieldup>browser headings)

I am very angry.
I am only a few steps away to start a massive campaign against Opera and
to denounce to the UN because of it´s current lack of user's privacy
human rights respect.

And I love(d?) Opera as the best browser ...

Please give me your results from the above user-agent test sites, and
your opinions.

Mac



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