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I'm quite old already, from times when the first computers still worked with punch cards that I saw the first time when he did military service. Naturally I know the old Opera, it was the first useful browser, until in the end it was sold and distorted by the Chinese. Vivaldi is a successor, pursuing the same original philosophy and I agree that it is not a browser for everyone, there will always be a browser for a certain advanced audience, professionals, students, researchers, etc., to which it really comes from pearls with its functionalities, but to use it only to read the mail, post on some social network, well it is something oversized, for this certainly serves any other browser, even the simplest, such as Min or Fifo, with search bar and little else. As I said, it depends on the needs of each one.
Regarding uBO, if it has some advanced functions, apart from an integration in the contextual menu, which the Vivaldi blocker (yet) does not have, although it also does its job well, since it also allows you to add the filters you want. No browser with and without an app can do what TOR does, but this is because it does not work like a normal browser, naturally protects against fingerprinting, but on the other hand lacks other protections and functions, it is good for browsing on the onion, but many got an unpleasant surprise to do it without before using a VPN and being completely exposed. Surfing the open web with TOR seems to me to be a bit desperate.
Trace does its job well by randomizing fingerprints and blocking other identification and tracking methods, cryptominers, header, CSS, pixel, fonts, etc. Although you have to look for a balanced configuration, since activating all the protections, prevents the operation of some pages, even when you add too many filters to the uBO or the Vivaldi blocker, which can also break some pages.
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The VPN isn't such, it's a proxie over the own Opera servers, currently Opera is the less private respecting browser, in Android the browser with the most trackers, even more as Chrome itself https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.opera.browser/latest/
I know some who alternatively use the old Opera 12, but certainly no one who uses the current Opera, which only has the name in common with the old one. Technically it is a good browser, but in China privacy is not in the vocabulary and the VPN is directly a fake.
Because Opera sells data to different conglomerates of companies, like Verizon, which includes Yahoo and Yimg.com (can't access because Yimg.com is flagged as malicious, by the way), also Hotjar (Website Heatmaps & Behavior Analytics). It also sends information to Microsoft, Alphabet.Inc and Nest (Google advertising companies) as well as doubleclick.net, google-analytics.com, google.com, googletagmanager.com. In other words, half the Internet companies know what you do with Opera, looking over your shoulder, adding that the free "VPN" logs all your browser history. Thanks, no need for this.
You do not have to trust anything, it is simply absurd that at this point you trust a product when it says FOSS, resulting in the concept of FOSS having nothing to do with this concept, to remember that to trust a product other factors are necessary. As I said before, also the APIs and other apps to track the user of big companies are FOSS and included in many other FOSS to earn money.
Vivaldi is freeware proprietary, but only because the UI scripts are, which are 100% auditable and modifiable by the user, which is not possible in Chrome, EDGE and Opera, there the Chromium layer is not auditable at all and completely closed source, this is the difference. Firefox is a good browser and FOSS, but it passes user data to Alphabet and NEST, i.e. Google, for funding. In its development the company is oriented more to its own interests than to those of the users, which is why many abandon Firefox, even 2 distros have done so, now using Vivaldi as the default browser (Manjaro and FerenOS) other distros also play with this possibility and most already have Vivaldi in their repositories and many users have already done so, in the Vivaldi community more than half of users use Linux, because they know that Vivaldi does not traffic with their data, it is even active in campaigns against these practices .
They appreciate that when a bug appears, that the devs even work on Sundays to offer an update that fixes it. This is what deserves trust, that some companies like Renault and PoleStar even have, to use it as the preferred browser for their products.