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Opera to Start Phoning Home?
An anonymous reader writes "Near the end of a story about Opera's determination to stay in the game: 'Earlier this week, Opera announced an addition that will keep it in step with its rivals. Johan Borg, a developer working on the browser, said Tuesday in a blog that the next edition, Opera 9.1, will include beefed up anti-phishing and anti-fraud features. Rather than simply indicate that a site is secure with a notation in the address bar, Opera 9.1 will also query Opera-owned servers for information on any site visited. Those that Opera has identifies as fraudulent will be automatically blocked by the browser.'"
Yes. Since Opera's doing it, Firefox is probably going to be doing it a year or two from now and all of these same people are going to argue that it's a good thing. Then seven years from now, Internet Explorer will do it and everybody will criticize them for taking so long to do this. Also, I think it will be possible to turn this feature off too, and if it isn't then I can set the firewall to block connections to Opera's server.