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Any specifics of what type of VPN protocol its using?
According this chart of vpn's, OpenVPN
That One Privacy Guy's VPN Comparison Chart
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJTvWT5RHFSYuEoFVpAe...
edit: Name of the service is SurfEasy
Is this the same Opera that was recently purchased by a shady Chinese consortium? [1] 1: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/11/browser-m...
If they are bought out by the Chinese, does using this mean the new Chinese owners will see all your traffic?
If the traffic is encrypted then they wouldn't see into it, but it would go through their servers, so in worst case scenario you'd be surfing from behind the Great Chinese Firewall
Is this the same Opera that was recently purchased by a shady Chinese consortium? [1] 1: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/11/browser-m...
It hasn't been purchased yet; the buyout deal is yet to go through AFAICT.
If I use this though, will Netflix block me from accessing any content?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Netflix blocks you from accessing all content if you are behind any sort of proxy or VPN.
How do they detect that you are using a VPN?
Probably they also have some heuristics that look closely at people who geoip in a different country than their billing records, and whose IP address seems to be in a colo rather than a DSL subscriber block.
Why this thing is called VPN anyway? It looks like HTTP proxy should be enough for browser.