Opera decides to put an Eric Andre jumpscare intro as a part of the advertisement for "Bury Boring". Now people are switching browsers - Opera users are quiting after Opera decides to put as jumpscare in the loading intro

[Relinquish]

Opera recently put out an advertisement for their browser, OperaGX, called "Bury Boring" featuring Eric Andre

To make more people watch the advertisement people over at Opera decided that it would be a great idea to make this appear whenever you open Opera

Some people found it funny at first until they realised that they CAN'T TURN IT OFF.

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Also, this shit plays at max volume every time

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This shit even played when all animations and splashes were turned off

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Their response to the backlash was this

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The entirety of r/Operagx is now switching their browsers to Firefox

 

[BirdUp]

i think this is a good addition
anyway what is the point of opera when firefox/librewolf exists
a browser can't be for "gaming" because one will always consume memory

 

[Onni Kalsarikännit]

Who is Eric Andre?

 

[RACISM]

Opera is a proprietary anus and Eric Andre has never once made me laugh. The only use it ever had was Opera Mini on those shitty Java phones 15 years ago.

 

[Sneedfully and Peacefully]

What an unbelievably retarded campaign. I don't know if they have different distributions for language/region but imagine you're pajeet shit in the street and you use opera GX because you're super cool Indian gamer and something like a random malware pops up on your screen, you'd lose your shit and think you got a virus. You don't know who the fuck Eric Andre is you only know Rishi Pandalamabandawanadan

 

[Relinquish]

anyway what is the point of opera when firefox/librewolf exists

Opera is a tranny browser

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[Vect]

"Chill brah?"

Yep, steering clear of that.

Who is Eric Andre?

Surrealist comedian. Probably an acquired taste and used to be quite politically incorrect.

If that sounds interesting, first consider the following disclaimer.

 

[BMO_]

Usually proprietary software spies on you and sells your data, but this is just fucking retarded.

 

[herefortheactualthreads]

i only switched because of jewtube.

relevant:

 

[beautiful person]

April Fools... on November 28th?

 

[ZipDisk]

Chill Brah? Nah.

I mean I wasn't using Opera GX anyway, the fact they were shit pushing it so hard put me on warning, but they've essentially declared themselves memeware.
No one wants memeware.

 

[TyrasGuard]

I have the same reaction to finding out that people use Opera as when I find out that there are still McAfee users out there.

 

[verymuchawful]

Big wake-up call when a browser remotely updates itself to give you ear damage every time you start it. Good job convincing people to not bother with your shitty meme Chromium fork.

 

[BirdUp]

If that sounds interesting, first consider the following disclaimer.

a shame but he is still funny

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

You listen to Wocka Flocka at all?

 

[ZipDisk]

I paid nintendo their jew gold for opera and then watched like four youtube videos. I want my ten dollars back.

 

[Uncle Sid]

Eric Andre has never once made me laugh.

Seeing him get pranked in Jackass Forever made me laugh. Because fuck him.

 

[Merton J. Dingle]

What does Opera even do differently than the myriad of browsers available? Is there any legit reason to use it over Firefox or literally anything that isn't Chrome?

 

[Vect]

I have the same reaction to finding out that people use Opera as when I find out that there are still McAfee users out there.

To be fair, they make it seem like it's hardwired into your computer.

My dad had one of those big iMac desktops and the McAfee resubscription window was permanently plastered on the desktop and kept making his other windows minimize. He never figured out how to get rid of it.

He's never used a home PC since.

 

[Whatevermancer]

Opera has not been relevant ever since they switched from their own engine to Blink.