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People should avoid giving more data to China out of sheer principle, regardless of their personal attachment to China.
Or self preservation.
Every intelligence agency collects blackmail. The obvious targets are those in high office. But sometimes you need disposable randos to e.g. collect intelligence or place assets. Being able to pass blackmail to an operative who can use it to convince e.g. a farmer to give them pictures of a silo or Air Force base (under the guise of commercial espionage for a domestic competitor or whatever) is valuable.
No. It's a Chinese company with an office in Oslo (in addition to China) [1].
Had they run it as an independent subsidiary there might have been a claim that it remains Norwegian. But they haven't and so it isn't.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(company)#Acquisition_an...
Whatever reasons you accept from the Europeans about why Facebook/Instagram is unacceptable are the ones you should apply here.
You’re complaining about “passive aggressive crap” while falsely insinuating OP is racist?
The problem they cite is Opera is Chinese. Not that the people involved are ethnically Chinese.
https://qz.com/africa/1788351/operas-okash-opesas-predatory-...
>A Chinese super app is facing claims of predatory consumer lending in Nigeria, Kenya and India
https://hindenburgresearch.com/opera-phantom-of-the-turnarou...
>The group’s largest investor and current Opera Chairman/CEO was recently involved in a Chinese lending business that listed in the U.S. and saw its shares plunge more than 80% in just 2 years amid allegations of fraud and illegal lending practices.
>Post IPO, Opera has now also made a similar and dramatic pivot into predatory short-term loans in Africa and India, deploying deceptive ‘bait and switch’ tactics to lure in borrowers and charging egregious interest rates ranging from ~365-876%.