<story><title>Facebook To Buy Opera? Maybe.</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/05/25/facebook-to-acquire-browser-maker-opera-maybe-heres-what-we-know/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>damoncali</author><text>Can you imagine the privacy issues of Facebook owning a browser? I&apos;d be afraid to install the damn thing.&lt;p&gt;Edit: For those who point out Google, I would argue that Google has demonstrated only a desire to show me ads (which I actually like). Facebook has demonstrated a desire to show everyone everything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forgotusername</author><text>After all, none of the other data-hungry vendors address bars behave exactly like a keylogger (&lt;i&gt;cough&lt;/i&gt; Chrome)</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook To Buy Opera? Maybe.</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/05/25/facebook-to-acquire-browser-maker-opera-maybe-heres-what-we-know/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>damoncali</author><text>Can you imagine the privacy issues of Facebook owning a browser? I&apos;d be afraid to install the damn thing.&lt;p&gt;Edit: For those who point out Google, I would argue that Google has demonstrated only a desire to show me ads (which I actually like). Facebook has demonstrated a desire to show everyone everything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ticks</author><text>A browser is troubling but you can opt-out by using a competitor (I think that&apos;s a reason why Google still supports Firefox). It&apos;s when they start buying ISPs that you should treat it seriously because that&apos;s an attempt to control the platform from the street to the servers.</text></comment>