There is a current proposal by the Irish presidency of the EU commission that would allow a GDPR exception for anything relating to AI.

Hope it dies in parliament. But never forget that the rights that do exist in the EU are constantly under attack by lobby interests.

… why do you keep buying a product that is very clearly shit?

Amazon.de doesn’t have this, and I rarely use it anyway, but I took this as an opportunity to request all data they have on me. If you live in certain US stages (e.g. California), or successfully represent you do, you can probably do that too.

No, they’ve been bought out by a super shady company years ago. They’re also chromium now. The original Opera team partially moved to create Vivaldi, also Chromium.