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How do you block "talking" to a VPN?
When packets traverse the edge router, IX, cable (landing) station, .. if they're recognised as VPN traffic, then the server's IP (or IP / port) is added to a blacklist, every subsequent packet is dropped. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_packet_inspection
A company that sold itself to a Chinese consortium for $600M announces a free VPN service. That's some high quality humor.
If it's free then you are the product
Pretty important press release for Opera. You'd think they'd proof read it?
"Web 3 is an umbrella term for a set of emerging technologies intersecting cryptocurrencies, blockchains and distributed systems" wat?
It's the name of the ethereum JS library: https://github.com/ethereum/web3.js/ The idea is that cryptocurrencies will represent the 3rd wave of the internet after web 2.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 Although Tim Berners lee tried to coin web 3.0 as the semantic web but that's not really taken off as a concept.
So while they market decentralization and trustlessness, they are one server-compromise away from getting fed a completely false view of Ethereum's blockchain state and losing all their funds.
If that's an attempt on web 3.0, we might as well just skip straight to web 4.0.
Isn't it misleading, to discuss it as a "vpn service"? If you install a binary, that not only controls vpn channel on both sides, but is also a browser, do I understand it right, that it can completely highjack the trust mechanisms, and happily MITM anything you visit? Is there any way to find out if it's really establishing, well, vpn connection (e.g. openVPN or Wireguard), without DPI hardware and corresponding exp…
A company that sold itself to a Chinese consortium for $600M announces a free VPN service. That's some high quality humor.
Opera is closed source browser owned by the Chinese. There is literally nothing they can say that will make me install this software.
Looks very good to see VPNs and crypto integrated as first-class citizens into a webbrowser. Also love the nightmode.
What is the point of having crypto integrated into the browser? Native bitcoin mining malware?
A company that sold itself to a Chinese consortium for $600M announces a free VPN service. That's some high quality humor.