Free VPN integrated in Opera for better online privacy

Post by arca_vorago » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 12:08 PM UTC

Post by subliminalpanda » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 12:11 PM UTC

raddad wrote: post #11

subliminalpanda wrote: post #2

Any specifics of what type of VPN protocol its using?

>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

Post by Arnt » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 12:20 PM UTC

chris_wot wrote: post #27

Arnt wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They have a list of VPN providers. 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.

This is why I would love to see a Visa card that anonymises you to corporations, but not necessarily the government - and available to those overseas. Don't suppose such a thing exists? Edit: Scratch that. What I'd like is a high speed consumer cable account that I could proxy into.

Post by iancarroll » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 12:21 PM UTC

sotrueee wrote: post #26

Free as in free 500MB and then you have to pay.

Post by DyslexicAtheist » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 12:22 PM UTC

arm wrote: post #40

xrstf wrote: post #5

The 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). ―――――― ¹ — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10700792