‘If I Die, Delete My Browser History’—OperaGX Makes Good on the Meme

Are you anxious that your dad and mom or important different will uncover your favourite web sites after you go away? Must you be? Opera, the web browser firm behind OperaGX, has you coated with a brand new “deadman swap” function: “Faux My Historical past.” When triggered, it makes use of AI to swap your actual browser historical past to a set of extra healthful websites.

A “deadman swap,” also referred to as a set off or kill swap, is a instrument that requires customers to meet steps to offer proof of life and management of the machine. A deadman swap may take the type of info or messages that disappear after a set period of time, as supported by privacy-centric messaging apps like Sign.

As soon as enabled, the “Faux My Historical past” function, out there on OperaGX appropriate methods, acts as a deadman swap and can auto-delete the shopping historical past and change it with a pretend “however good” model.

Customers can check the function by checking the field subsequent to “Fake I’m already lifeless.”

As soon as the person confirms they wish to disguise their historical past, OperaGX will generate random historical past hyperlinks to switch the originals.

“With ‘Faux My Historical past,’ we’re wiping the slate clear and changing your scandalous digital shenanigans with a completely pretend model of your shopping previous,” OperaGX Product Director Maciej Kocemba stated in a assertion.

“In case your nosy associate, dad or mum or roommate opens Opera GX and sneaks a posthumous peek at your historical past, they will marvel at your bogus but impeccable on-line tastes and the charmingly fictional exploits that fill your digital previous,” the assertion guarantees. “Bask within the glory of a phony but plausibly sanitized shopping historical past that rivals the harmless escapades of the web’s most virtuous customers.”

Tech corporations have gotten more and more attuned to each the privateness and social media preferences of the lately departed. Each Apple and Fb present a “Legacy Contact” function to designate a trusted individual to deal with your accounts after you die or are incapacitated.

Crypto corporations are following go well with. Final yr, web3 startup Sarcophagus raised $5.47 million in direction of the event of a crypto deadman swap that, if the person didn’t present proof of livelihood, the content material of the Sarcophagus, comparable to cryptocurrency, messages, and personal keys, would routinely be despatched to the handle of their designated recipient. 

Opera says the “Faux My Historical past” function can even work in much less excessive circumstances, such because the person deciding to make use of a special web browser.

Opera didn’t specify how the pretend hyperlinks are chosen.

Launched in 2019, OperaGX is an web browser geared towards players and followers of anime. Embedded controls in OperaGX permit customers to manage the quantity of RAM and processing energy the browser makes use of, in addition to quite a lot of gamer-focused options like built-in Twitch subscriptions, Discord messaging, and gaming information.

Final yr, Opera additionally leapt headlong into the blockchain house by including help for decentralized purposes like Metamask and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Solana, and Polygon by way of its Opera Crypto Browser.

In March, Opera launched synthetic intelligence to its Opera and Opera GX browsers.  The “AI Prompts” function added entry to ChatGPT and ChatSonic straight into the Opera sidebar. These with ChatGPT Plus subscriptions can use the extra highly effective GPT-4 and ChatGPT plugins.

Opera has not but responded to Decrypt’s request for remark.