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[-] Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip 14 points 10 months ago

Didn't opera cache images on their server and feed you a lower res version instead of what the website had? Granted with the limited bandwidth available back then, that was fine but now I don't think many people would want that.

[-] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

Exactly this. Lower resolution and added compression. You could click to view full version if needed, but this was a feature as it meant faster loading and a small fraction of the data usage.

[-] privatizetwiddle@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 10 months ago

In Opera Mini, yes. They also had a less popular but nearly identical browser, Opera Mobile, which didn't do the proxying and compression. I had an unlimited data plan back then, so I always used Mobile. The performance was great even without compression.

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