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Re: Free VPN integrated in Opera for better online privacy

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Post by chris_wot » Fri, Apr 22, 2016, 2:22 AM UTC

Arnt wrote: post #72

chris_wot wrote: post #59

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You realise that you could have just given HN a new startup? I'd gladly pay someone to access a portion of their bandwidth - at least enough that I could stream content.

That's great. Potential founders should consider the costs of providing tech support for a tunnel that crosses two NATboxes, both controlled by strangers.

If you can remotely login to the box, it wouldn't be that bad. And if you can lock down the box physically then it would be pretty tamper proof.

Anyway, it was just a thought. It's possible it's impractical :-)

Re: Free VPN integrated in Opera for better online privacy

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Post by cyphar » Fri, Apr 22, 2016, 3:31 AM UTC

blowski wrote: post #38

j_koreth wrote: post #34

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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.

You missed Mozilla.

Re: Free VPN integrated in Opera for better online privacy

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Post by EugeneOZ » Fri, Apr 22, 2016, 1:06 PM UTC

niij wrote: post #127

EugeneOZ wrote: post #91

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Connection is encrypted

To their servers.. Allowing any non end-to-end encrypted information to be harvested at Opera's VPN point.

Or your provider, or Opera, or own server with VPN. For majority of people setting up own server is too complicated, so it's much better than nothing, especially when you are in place where you can use only non-secure wifi network.