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myself so me and Opera we are pretty much we grew up in the same same sandbox so to speak now you probably know a lot about Opera GX from its Saucy brand account where they absolutely roast a Payday 3 player based the remaining few that there are and un ironically call sneo an entire cuckle so again this might be a big positive for some people that a Gaming Community browser is topped this hard into the community and of course if you can appreciate a little bit of that edginess it's right there waiting for you but again you've probably also seen your favorite content creators talk about Opera gx's browser its GX Corner functionality the ability for you to limit certain functionalities to get I assume better performances and you've probably seen massive collaboration with big superhero companies like bot International but again you also just have probably went to their website and wanted to understand how you get an unparalleled gaming and browsing experience and if setting those limits on your Hardware is really all that important when most of it is controlled by an actual scheduler anyways but those are things we'll dive into a little bit into the video is using Discord and twitch really important from the sidebar is this the browser for gamers I really wanted to see if this was really going to give me a tangible benefit or if this is just marketing gimmicks Opera is not new to gaming browsers in fact if you were a proud user of the original Nintendo wi you probably used the internet Channel and used an Opera browser itself Heck if you had a Nintendo DS you could actually buy the Nintendo web browser which was effectively just an Opera browser that you could use to browse 4chan or really any dodgey website using your Nintendo DS nowadays most modern game consoles I'm looking at you Sony and Nintendo don't even have web browsers built in but I guess that's effectively what Xbox's you know single one benefit really is that you can actually browse Google and play a video game at the same time what a novel concept but of course Opera GX is not designed for PlayStation 5 or Nintendo switch or even the Xbox series systems in fact if anything Opera GX is basically just a browser for PC Gamers who want to have extra gaming benefits the ability to optimize their Chrome browser so that it doesn't chew up all of the RAM available on their system and of course provide you with a whole slew of features that I'll say many other browsers don't provide now there's been a lot of controversy surrounding Opera GX in the last few years allegations of Chinese spyware the ability for your personal information to be sold on the open market basically by this one company these are very very serious claims and I want to take the time today to really dig in and kind of answer the question is Opera GX really worth getting now for full you know transparency sake I have been offered sponsorships by Opera GX before I'm actually I would say on pretty friendly terms with the Opera GX social media manager Opera GX is very much in tune with the Gaming Community now that being said you might be like mudo why didn't you just take the bag and decide to you know promote Opera GX it would have been an easy amount of money that you could make and you're right it can't always be a lot of money but the thing about sponsorships on this channel is for one I have to be able to actually use the product right uh unfortunately with Opera GX it only is available for Windows and Mac all right how much gaming are you doing on a Mac even compared to Linux these days uh it doesn't have a Linux port and the other thing is also with sponsorships it goes without saying I can never accept an actual uh software or an account that comes from the actual sponsor it always has to be something that is bought at our company through an uh you know unidentifiable account or a credit card right so we get the experience that the viewer will as soon as they like you know purchase a service now looking at Opera gx's forums there clearly is interest in Linux like 134,000 views on this one thread where people do want to know and they want Opera GX on their Linux systems now again it's wild to me that looking into Opera GX a lot of the source isn't even really available for this browser like if I go to Opera software they definitely talk about you know things like the SSH key Authority the dnsi nothing necessarily is over here for the Opera browser itself as compared to you know Brave browser which you can download the source for right here uh Microsoft Edge where you can download the source as well too so I really feel that a world of open-source operating systems not operating system but open source web browsers being the norm I don't really feel comfortable using something that doesn't really put itself out there for scrutiny by everyone around them so these are just a few examples of why I can never take a sponsorship from oper GX and why I don't personally use it I can't use it and out of principle it just doesn't you know I wouldn't even want to okay so that all being said ladies and Gentlemen let's uh move on to Opera GX now if you actually go to their website here real quick Opera GX is a browser built specifically for gamers get an unparalleled gaming and browsing experience on mobile and desktop set limits on CPU RAM and network usage use Discord and twitch from the sidebar so here I've got a Windows Virtual Machine because anytime I use software like this I always have a specific virtual machine because again if I don't trust a piece of software I'm going to keep it contained and locked in its own ecosystem okay so ladies and gentlemen this is my computer right now let me give you a fat Neo fetch I am in fact an arch lunix user now if you look carefully into the system you can see that I've got a rise 95950 x with 32 threads uh an Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU and about 128 GB of GRA of a system memory now this is an incredibly Overkill system so for some reasonable scientific understanding I want to see how much Opera GX actually consumes and I also want to see what it would reasonably run like on an average gaming computer so I'm going to look at the steam Hardware survey and kind of make a virtual machine that almost approximates what I'm looking at so here you can see that the most popular OS is Windows 10 64bit I'm running Windows 11 system Ram is 16 GB so I'm actually going to do 16 I think it's 384 to exactly match uh you know what is the system memory of an average user so around 16 gabt now of course it says physical CPUs is six I'm going to assume that means you know six actual uh you know CPU or that would mean six CPUs but also dual thread dual core so around 12 thread 6 CPUs and of course each of them being you know multi-threaded so two cores per CPU and if you look at the actual GPU I have a 4090 so this is going to be something that is obviously outside the norm Now ladies and gentlemen with all that being said we're going to basically set this up and ready to go and we're going to fire up this virtual machine and basically run through Opera GX so setting up the browser was pretty simple I went through theming the system basically selecting what I wanted enabled for some reason I couldn't import my actual information for brave it could literally detect every single browser on my system but the [ __ ] Brave browser don't know what that's all about but that's pretty much the world we sat into now once that's done I actually had Opera GX ready to go and immediately starting it up it actually begins pretty quickly now Opera GX right here from the get-go has this kind of a style going for it it's a bit of a gamer oriented style hell the actual default uh homepage is the GX Corner which again gives you release information for various games lets you play some free games and if you're listening real CL closely it actually has its own sound effects in fact if you go up here and just type in Google that's not me editing in a sound effect that is actually sound effects built into a [ __ ] web browser now if you go to the settings right over here the first thing you absolutely should do before you stick knives into your ears is probably go out and uh you know disable the keyboard sounds and disable those browser sounds so looking into it real carefully it's got a whole bu of theme options uh beyond all of it it's also got a lot of privacy and security features so like a built-in ad blocker which works relatively well about as well as any other Chrome browsers ad blocking functionality so if YouTube ads scare you or any ad on the internet you've got the options it's also got the ability to block various trackers if you wanted to and a free VPN service but we'll look into that a little bit later it's got a bit of video and photo enhancements through something known as rgx and like most most tech products these days it's got [ __ ] artificial intelligence built right in on the left hand side you could basically add in multiple social media services so if you wanted to use Twitter God forbid within your browser you can if you wanted to access Discord with the boys you can just by going to the Discord app and hitting continue in browser so mind you nothing here is effectively so mind-blowing like this tab over here effectively leads you to uh Spotify the it just opens another tab uh for anybody that just wants to have music playing in the side on their system and again there's a bunch of different variants that you can involve so you can go and dig up YouTube music one thing you might be noticing is whoa muda what's up with your browser is there like a GPU error going on no actually uh the browser is so customizable you can actually install a whole bunch of different mods that changes the background music the keyboard sounds if that interests you wallpaper is okay browser sounds the theme and and something known as shaders so when you're browsing the internet you can you can add things like chromatic aberration and and and glitches and and a whole bunch of [ __ ] shaders to your actual browsing experience I love this one for San Andreas it's just a money effect flying around yeah oh boy that's what I want to see when I browse the internet just just dollar bills Fallen it's kind of ins Saye how you can just like add even more like what does eight bitter do oh oh hell yeah dude oh this is this is gangster a book a road test let's go dude oh man I can you can like you can like barely read what's written here this is a this is fun for like 50 seconds maybe after that it's it's just going to burn your eyes out now look all memes aside okay beyond all the shaders and graphical controls one of the big selling points is GX control in here so what this allows you to effectively do is monitor the CPU usage and the RAM usage of the tabs that you have open now this is a big feature that they absolutely like to Showcase where it allows Gamers to basically identify the pressure points in their browser and optimize things so obviously you've got you know your hot tabs killer so if you wanted to destroy that drive test You Know Tab because it's using 53 Megs it's gone it's slashed now if you look at the network limiter you can see that obviously you can control how much bandwidth your device uses uh you've got a ram limiter so if you wanted to for some reason kill the RAM usage of the browser all the way down to I don't know let's say uh 1.5 gigs it'll warn you you can give it a hard limit which will actually suspend and kill tabs in the background uh but again you can also go down and you know basically tell it to limit CPU usage so if you wanted to say Hey listen go all the way down to 17% of my usage it will kill the actual performance so you can see that it is in fact sluggish so if I turn that off it'll actually be much more easier to use so these do work but ultimately I feel like this is going to be a placebo effect and I'll explain why as far as CPU limiters go this is honestly not a required feature most modern operating systems like Windows Mac or Linux are pretty good with scheduling systems now a process scheduler or just a scheduler in general for an operating system is literally you know in it's designed to basically you know put processes certain processes above others and schedule it in a way where usually higher you know required processes you know processes that are typically more of a priority get more you know system resources or usually are brought in you know first for the next time slices so this is usually done at an operating system level right and again you can read further into this because it is a very very very complicated read up most operating systems if not all of them whether you use you know linuxes kernel whether you're a Mac OS user whether you're a Windows user you typically should rely on the actual OS to handle all of this it's never in my opinion beneficial to get in the way and try to force a game boosting software to affect any process in the way and generally even looking on stack exchange from some pretty reputable you know uh individuals talking into this for game development they've usually said in games we treat the os's out of our hands we trust the OS vendors to make sufficiently good choices to support the apps their customers want to use so choosing a scheduler is generally not a problem that game developers solve if you're making a game and I've run into a problem along the way they can help and basically jump into this so again when I look at game boosting software like from Razer for instance right where the entire idea is hey we're going to manage and stop non-essential processes and apps free of valuable resources and RAM for a smoother experience I always think all of these tools are effectively just placebos and jumping in front of your operating system and forcing it to effectively you know kill certain applications or you know manage RAM and manage processes for you is usually more of a hindrance rather than a help and you know there's software that I just don't trust in general right like again game boosting software while it is a placebo I really don't want any random software off the internet to just control what I'm doing on my system or start to make changes even if it's something where again I have to route my information through a certain bpn or proxy because I could suddenly get better latency is just again I really don't think the juic is worth the squeeze and of course then you get into weird situations where again these websites look like they're straight up pulled out of like the early 2000s like a free game speed up tool you know close startups free memory tune up your network and again a lot of these are just basic fixes that you don't even need a application for anyways now I want to preface this by saying that I'm not a scientist in a lab here so again if you have any objections with the testing methodologies feel free to tell me in the comment section below below but in this situation we wanted to just test if this browser was giving you know actually better performance versus its competitors or was this all within the margin of error and all of these CPU and GPU limiters are just effectively marketing gimmicks so at this moment in time I wanted to pit a bunch of browsers against each other Firefox Opera GX Microsoft Edge Brave browser Google Chrome and the ungoogled Chrome project which you can download and build yourself so the way that we tested this was we didn't have any extensions anything running just the browser at default settings the only caveat being that I disabled all the ad blockers and The anti-t Trackers because I felt that these would add unnecessary extensions and memory usage which would be unfair if you're comparing totally naked browsers with you know these you know bloated browsers in a way too I did this because I consider ad blocking and tracking to be extensions but that's really you know my opinion right here so so in this quick and dirty test over here one thing we did was just run a 1080p version of the uh video that you're seeing right here on the screen uh again running in a loop exact same quality for all these browsers just one tab with the video open and again if you look at the actual memory consumption what is surprisingly alarming to me is the fact that Firefox is actually so resource intensive uh basically consuming most of the memory that we've seen uh in fact the CPU usage on higher was just the was on average higher now obviously Opera GX in this situation is probably the worst of the Chrome browsers if we're looking at you know the memory usage in this situation too but again after that comes obviously Microsoft Edge then the brave browser and surprisingly Google Chrome which people have always really touted as one of the most bloated browsers in this situation or you know in general obviously dead last in the ringer was chromium which obviously is deg Googled it is as base as you can get built Straight From the Source so that was really the one video test now obviously we're Gamers here on this channel so chance are if you're using a gaming browser you probably also do some gaming as well now in this situation I'm playing cyberpunk 2077 which is something that I would play while I would have something on the second monitor usually as I'm going through side missions and gigs now in this situation I've decided to set the actual gamees resolution to 1080p everything is effectively maxed out and I'm running the game with the psycho settings uh for Ray tracing modes now I don't have the path tracing enabled nor do I have dlss frame generation enabled because I don't know what that does to frame rate testing necessarily it might just screw things up a little bit so I decided to just keep things pretty sweet and simple now in this situation the way that I tested each and every single browser was I effectively had a stream open at 1080p so here's Charlie say hi I'm watching him on a you know just on a separate monitor right here just imagine he's playing 1080p live stream it's running encoding right now and uh I made sure this was standard 1080p for every single browser by forcing YouTube to go that route out the other thing is obviously I also put in another tab which is the standard default tab that each browser would have just to see if they would really add uh more bloat to these systems too or how they deviate things now in the situation obviously you know running cyberpunk 2077 without any form of internet browsing runs the game at around 74 frames per second I tested this using the in-game Benchmark for every single run okay just because the open world nature of the game if I were to test in the World there would be so many Dynamic things that it would just render any form of benchmarking pointless now with Opera GX running uh you can see that on average these browsers consume around 8 to 10% of the CPU uh as they're you know transcoding this video now obviously I've enabled things like Hardware acceleration for these systems um that being said uh you know I made sure that all of the defaults were pretty much enabled the only thing that isn't enabled from my understanding on here is again the add blocking and the anti-tracking functionality because I believe those to be just separate extensions now oper GX came out to be 68 frames which is great in fact out of all the browsers we've done it is the best test now Brave came in at 66 frames Chrome came in at 66 frames Edge came in at 65 frames and Firefox came in at 65 frames as well now the reason why none of this is super impressive is this is well within the margin of error now I tried oper G x a second time and the frame rate was surprisingly as low as Firefox and Edge so clearly it doesn't necessarily mean that each and every single run is going to be perfect there's going to be deviances there's going to be again you know things that fall within that margin of error so what have I learned that even with these you know gaming oriented browsers it's not so much their CPU limitations and RAM limitations you have to worry so much about by forcing those limitations all you're doing is causing a hindrance onto the browser itself now sure you could force Opera to necessarily kill the CPU usage by a big fraction but the thing is it's only going to hurt your quality of watching a live stream on YouTube or if you just have any browsing on the side which I don't think people want at the end of the day now realistically you can imagine that as you put more load onto your system the worse the performance is necessarily going to get if you started to play 4K video across the board HDR and everything I'm sure the performance for your games will just consistently keep tanking but everything that I've seen here so far Falls far within that margin of error and really no matter what browser you go with especially in the chromium you know stage you'll be fine even with Firefox and I'm sure you know if you extrapolate this to Vivaldi you know a bunch of other different browsers it's going to all give you the same stuff so one thing that I wanted to look at even closer with oper GX was the one tab that I just seemingly couldn't close which was the GX Corner app so let's actually look at this with a closer line lens now if you look carefully over here starting up Opera GX the first thing you actually see is this corner right so again I'm just going to start it fresh brand new go to Opera GX and of course you can see it begins with the GX corner now obviously if you go into the settings page right over here you can actually go all the way down to full browser settings and if you look at things like the GX corner for instance uh just searching for it what you can do is you can stick that into a sidebar but it really doesn't seem like you can turn anything off and based on what I've seen with again other systems and you know older post maybe it was disabled at one point or you could actually turn it off the point is it exists and permeates in you know Opera GX at any moment so alongside having one tab you always have a GX Corner tab that's also open as well now one thing I also wanted to say is when I installed this it actually had this setting defaulted run when my computer starts now I have never had to use a browser where it needed to install or run whenever my computer was operating this is not something I am ever comfortable with and I wanted to talk about it because it was something that was weird to me this is the only time I ever had to go into the startup settings for my Windows installation and actually find where Opera GX was just to basically disable it now you can't see it over here anymore but I since I've disabled it but yeah this was something here anyways going back to Opera GX a quick little view of this is what you get is a release calendar so if you want to obviously you know look at what's coming up in the you know future when it comes to gaming you can see that on for Windows I can see you know games that are coming out like for instance July 11 or July 11th I get anger foot and obviously you can you know include other consoles like Playstation Xbox I find it funny Linux is in here because they don't actually have a Linux version of this browser but they definitely will showcase upcoming Linux games and again you know if you look at what they offer more they've got a entire game sections you can play games like burning motor so you just click over here it loads up the GX Games application and you can play again flash games or or anything inside here so if you wanted to experience the new ground era it's all available inside the GX Corner okay now if you go back to the GX corner you can see they got the free-to-play section so again it links you to free-to-play versions of video games like if you want to play gen Genson impact now here you can see that I can't reach sites now if you remember a while back I made a video where I showcased uh you know the pie hole where I made network-wide ad blocking these are affiliate links meaning that the this is all designed from my understanding to effectively benefit uh Opera okay they're basically from my understanding making money off of it according to their terms while the browser is free they make money off of actual advertisements and again where it gets a little bit Shady for instance to not shady necessarily where it gets a little bit weird too is like oh look at that Jedi Survivor is free okay wait is it really free oh I have to go to Microsoft through this like you know link and just sign up for Game Pass so I don't know if you can necessarily even call that free but you have to ask yourself if this is necessarily something that you consider worth it obviously GX corner is their own video series you can watch their vtuber and again it's all centered around upcoming games and whatnot now do I think that you should have this available at any moment so obviously is I'm browsing tabs for instance if I'm you know ENT in google.com and I'm opening multiple tabs right here you know I got a bunch of tabs blah blah blah blah let me just search for random stuff here mudahar you can see that I've got you know three tabs open but I really have four tabs at the end of the day so if I close all these I ultimately come to the GX corner so you really have to ask yourself if this is a necessity and if this is really something that you consider ultimately useful now when it comes to the topic of privacy I wanted to just show you where you can actually get a quick idea of Open Source test for web browser privacy now this is privacy test.org and if you're looking carefully we're just going to stick to the desktop browsers but over on the top you can see that they cover you know tests for iOS Android and the various nightly builds which are nightly releases of development versions of said browsers now out of all these browsers Opera GX isn't listed but the closest is obviously going to just be Opera 111 which is Opera GX from my understanding without the GX stuff added in into it it's the standardized Opera browsing experience which is still based on chromium now out of all these browsers there's only a couple here that actually get the full check check list you can see in the state partitioning tests Brave Firefox Libra wolf mulvad ios's Safar not I but Apple Safari and tour actually succeed throughout all of these tests navigation wise you can see that none of these tests are completely Ironclad https tests only like again three browsers pass Libra wolf mulvad and T so when it comes to safety and security and privacy and anti-tracking and ad blocking or really anything Opera itself isn't even an industry leader and again if privacy was your important concern you should probably use something like Libra wolf which is from my understanding Firefox based or just straight up stick to mulvad and again the ultimate privacy test is ultimately just using tour browser so again for anybody that wants to you know use privacy as a selling point I wouldn't even recommend Brave which is what I typically use if privacy is your concern and you want to have the utmost security and you don't want to have anybody that tracks you whatsoever maybe it is time you go to like an anti-tracking browser or you know you go to Firefox or something in that basis so in that department I also wanted to bring this up as well now moving on one of the important things that was mentioned was the VPN that Opera has now Opera has a VPN built into their system which from my understanding is more so a proxy than it is a traditional VPN where as soon as you flip on the free VPN or paid from Opera it all exists within the scope of the browser now there is no reason to be surprised by this I most browser vpns do this are just proxies to something else now based on how opera GX Works they claim that they do not store any log whatsoever now this kind of goes on into again trusting them right one of the reasons why I don't take VPN sponsorships anymore unless it's you know mulvad for instance they came up and sponsored us the only way I could ever take a VPN sponsorship is if a company if your company has actually been raided by the state police and you did not have to hand over a single shred of data that is the only way to trust any of these companies period at least in my opinion so so I I don't have anything to dog about Opera's VPN aside from the fact that obviously I don't trust any free VPN service a free VPN service typically means you are the product uh but it's probably great like most free vpns for again uh getting rid of geol blocking restrictions like for instance if you want to watch American Netflix but you live in Canada you can bypass those Geo restrictions you know provided that Netflix doesn't stop you and same thing for any other service but when it comes to actually you know privacy right like making sure that you're logging into to I don't know the IRS your Banks or something really sensitive I wouldn't recommend any VPN unless it's like mulad that's probably the only thing I can like put my money towards and that's because they've been raid by the feds and they never had to give up any information so that's like the only thing going for them right uh but yeah that's really where I stand on with the privacy and whatnot and now the next big uh conspiracy that was kind of brought up and this is really huge is the allegations of Chinese spyware now one thing I want to talk about obviously is Opera and the Chinese spyware allegations so according to Opera's Wikipedia page they actually talk about how in 2016 they were acquired by an investment group led by a Chinese Consortium so two of the actual groups listed here was kunun Tech and KIU 360 now in 2022 Opera actually started purchasing some of their shares back but if you go to konun tech company page you can actually see that Opera is listed as you know basically right on their company okay and this is kunun Tech they are China's leading internet platform over Enterprise now obviously the fear here is because a Chinese organization has money put into it China's national intelligence law can basically ask any company under their wing to you know governments can say hey give us that piece of data on this specific person over National Intelligence and you have to comply now the thing about this is Opera has actually made a debunking page which I think is a pretty good debunk of this entire situation now what they talk about is they are a European company headquartered in Oslo Norway now because they're part of the EA which is the economic uh European economic area you basically have to be compliant with something known as gdpr which is one of the strongest data protection Frameworks in the world so because the company is headquartered in Norway the law basically protects you know people internationally even if you're in the United States because they're a European company the data is red through them uh that because of their you know gdpr standards because of the law they have to give privacy preservation and data protection regulations now the thing about this whole situation too is going down further they also talk about the fact that they are obviously traded publicly on the stock market and the thing is if they weren't transparent about any of this stuff then this could absolutely harm them financially actually it would be very illegal for them to lie to shareholders so I feel just off of these two points it's not necessarily something that I can say is like the whole thing about spyware is look at the end of the day if you use software from China or the United States even really any big country there's a chance that you are getting spied on obviously right there's a chance for it and this is probably the best uh response that the company could actually put forward you know this is not going to convince somebody that was already staunchly you know against Opera but I think it's a fair response that they can give by basically telling people look it's if you don't trust us trust the law right which I think is a fair thing to say a lot of companies follow gdpr compliance because breaking this law can absolutely destroy you in that part of the world okay so again to whittle it on into this situation right clearly if you're worried about the situation you probably have more to worry about with installing a uh rootkit level antivirus on a or not anti-che on a big game that is financed by 10cent uh or if you're using Tik Tok especially the mobile applications you probably have more to worry about being spied from there than a browser like this okay that's realistically where my mind comes into in this situation now one of the things that people brought up to me was the browser Telemetry now from 2021 on size of cat they did a again experiment based on what Telemetry these browsers were doing when they were initially fired up so you can see on things like Firefox and brave there are connections on startups and a lot of these connections are mostly towards the relative browser domain so Mozilla communicates to mozilla.com Brave communicates to brave.com and of course Opera is brought up this isn't suspicious to me because a lot of these features are again things like weather at weather. Opera api. comom which if you have a weather application or a weather widget it simply calls upon that in order to give you you know weather information in your relative area so this isn't really suspicious you can look at this as extra bloat you may not need in a browser you probably want to be completely optimized but yeah this is where my stance is on the Chinese spyware allegations uh again I think Opera gave the best response that they could and if you are worried about spyware then maybe just don't trust this operator maybe don't trust this browser but they gave the best actual response uh to this personally in my opinion so at the end of the day as I sit in the dark and Ponder is this worth you know uh absolutely pushing on to Gamers I think if you're somebody that's sponsored by Opera GX and you find it amazing I want to preface this by saying there is no ill will to anybody okay you know at the end of the day I didn't want to make a hit piece on Opera I simply wanted to actually research this for myself just to see if it was even worth considering as a sponsor and look even after with all the controversies you know things like the Chinese spyware allegations which ultimately I think Opera had a great response to I think after all the testing and seeing that it was no worse or better in terms of performance than any other browser all ultimately it never really in my opinion succeeded in any Department if you care about privacy you might as well consider using mvad or Liber wolf and if you cared about efficiency there were all those other chromium browsers that were far more efficient in the long term you know if you wanted to use Brave or just regular Google Chromium or just the chromium project browser without any connection to any you know big company or big group or Consortium then there were always better options now when I look at things like the GX Corner which again is just a tab that exists to keep release dates in mind which look most people they're going to know the release dates they care about anyways I don't think a few flash games is going to entice anyone and I think free game offers and Deals and links to their YouTube pages and channels isn't a help to anyone and it's a feature that I think ultimately is probably not going to be used by many gamers out there now when you look at things like the CPU limitations and the GPU limitations I really feel like it's snake oil being pedal to game Gamers who think that these are things that are going to give them an edge or it's going to make their systems better in general look at the end of the day your operating systems in general will do a far better job at managing your computer's resources than you will ever do in your own right and most modern web browsers are very very good in many departments anyways okay and even if Chrome uses up all of your RAM anyways right what the [ __ ] is unused Ram there for just existing it's fine your computer is going to manage things better and in many cases even based on those cyberpunk 2077 tests that I did no browser was ever better or worse in fact every single one of them fit well within the margin of error so you shouldn't really be thinking this is going to give you any advantage as a gamer it's not going to give you any more privacy it's not going to give you anything I think as a browser it might be a decent jack of all trades but there are in my opinion far better options so yeah that's really all I have to say ultimately look I get a great laugh out of their social media teams but as somebody who's you know one of my Channel's pillars and brand is you know talking about computer safety and cyber security and safety and privacy you know with all of the history and baggage that this browser has and again one of the co sole key facts that I'm not using something that is open source at the end of the day I genuinely cannot recommend Opera GX I don't trust it I wouldn't use it and uh I wouldn't recommend it but hey your computer is up to you it's your choice use whatever you want this is just my video I wanted to get my piece out there not even a hit piece I just wanted to get my findings out so again let me know what you think about it in the comment section below if you like what you saw please like comment and subscribe dislike if you dislike it I am out