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Free VPN in Opera 40

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Re: Free VPN in Opera 40

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Post by eDameXxX »

Bullet points:

● Free VPN

● Battery saving ([new] can be automatically activated when battery level is low)

● Chromecast support

● Newsreader with RSS support

● Video pop-out improvements

● engine update to Chromium 53.0.2785.101

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Other cool features from previous releases:

● built-in ad-blocker with abiblity adding custom lists [1]

● lowering memory usage with Heap compaction [2]

● copy / search pop-up on the selected text (can be disabled) [3]

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[1] http://www.opera.com/en/computer/features/ad-blocker

[2] https://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/07/memory-usage-ope...

[3] http://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/07/opera-beta-39-0-2...

Re: Free VPN in Opera 40

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Post by quantumfoam »

rocky1138 wrote: post #4

How do people feel about this free VPN now that Opera is owned by several major Chinese companies including security firms? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-10/opera-sof...

Yes, a little more background on their "VPN" [1]. Could they start calling it for what it is? [2].

[1] https://gist.github.com/quantumfoam/f8fe0846b7145a25abd587dc... [2] https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/4085/proxies-vs-vpn-whats-the-d...

Re: Free VPN in Opera 40

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Post by pawadu »

rocky1138 wrote: post #4

How do people feel about this free VPN now that Opera is owned by several major Chinese companies including security firms? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-10/opera-sof...

This is the only reason opera is not my main browser anymore.
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