As of now it's working in China. I'm able to access Facebook/Twitter/Youtube/Google without my normal vpn or ssh tunnel. Will be pretty useful if it stands up to the constant changes. Great work!
Free VPN integrated in Opera for better online privacy
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#32"This is why we today have more engineers than ever before working on new features for our desktop browser." Is this true or just PR BS? Because my understanding is that they had laid off most of the desktop browser team a few years ago and there were only a few left working on it.
Now they're based on Blink, so the they don't have to work on the core features of a browser engine. I imagine that means they have more engineers working on what they class "features for our desktop browser" as in user facing features, rather than W3C spec implementation.
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#33"This is why we today have more engineers than ever before working on new features for our desktop browser." Is this true or just PR BS? Because my understanding is that they had laid off most of the desktop browser team a few years ago and there were only a few left working on it.
They laid off most of their presto team but they did higher more for the new blink browser. It doesn't matter anyway I'm sure the Chinese buying would have given them a temporary revenue
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#34Couple with native adblocking I'm very tempted to switch browsers (from FF) and probably do so when available. But it just sounds too good, what is the catch?
I'm not a specialist, but you can start by researching how the Opera company makes money. It would seem to me a possible future "catch" would be that they could charge selected advertisers to let their ads through... From their own FAQ: http://www.operasoftware.com/press/faq "How Opera makes money" Opera provides cloud-based mobile services and solutions to operators, publishers and advertisers and enables hundreds o…
They literally have an advertising division as Opera Mediaworks
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#35Though we all know by know that there is no such thing as 'free'?
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#36Couple with native adblocking I'm very tempted to switch browsers (from FF) and probably do so when available. But it just sounds too good, what is the catch?
I'm not a specialist, but you can start by researching how the Opera company makes money. It would seem to me a possible future "catch" would be that they could charge selected advertisers to let their ads through... From their own FAQ: http://www.operasoftware.com/press/faq "How Opera makes money" Opera provides cloud-based mobile services and solutions to operators, publishers and advertisers and enables hundreds o…
Thanks, this same announcement says though that Opera now has Support for adding a personal ad blocker list. I don't think they would add this feature to just circumvent later, imho it would do more harm than good for their business.
If they don't want to push me using their other services putting their hands on and selling my data, while working on secure and anonymous browser that would be really nice. Sadly I don't see there is money in a product/service like that.
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#37If 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
The traffic is encrypted between you and the server. They control that server, where it gets decrypted to be sent out over the public internet (where it may be encrypted or not depending on the site). You've introduced a man in the middle. You must trust that man (but that man also already controls the source code for your browser, which can also see all your traffic).
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not a specialist, but you can start by researching how the Opera company makes money. It would seem to me a possible future "catch" would be that they could charge selected advertisers to let their ads through... From their own FAQ: http://www.operasoftware.com/press/faq "How Opera makes money" Opera provides cloud-based mobile services and solutions to operators, publishers and advertisers and enables hundreds o…
They literally have an advertising division as Opera Mediaworks
So do the other three biggest browser vendors - Microsoft, Apple and Google. So I'm not sure what that shows.
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#39"a native, unlimited and free VPN client, right inside your browser!"
Serious question: Money wise, how are they able to afford this?
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#40The VPN is operated by "SurfEasy Inc., an Opera company based in Canada". Just tested it and it worked flawlessly to watch a YouTube video that has been blocked in my country. [Edit: Netflix seems to block SurfEasy already. Sad.]
They didn’t exactly get a standing ovation the last time¹ they were mentioned on here though (for good reason… if they’re offering a service to help protect people’s privacy, it seems a bit odd that they’d opt to compromise said people’s privacy by having multiple trackers on their website).
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