Opera’s VPN doesn’t require registration and has no limits, So it’s a free VPN, don’t use it for anything important, but at least it’s not an obvious scam.
It’s more like a DNS as far as I know. They also had a service for opera mini j2me and Symbian to mirror webapps from a server (so it might be that technology). With how the tech works, I wouldn’t really trust it’s privacy (but it still was the only decent option in 2018, when I actually used it).
I don’t use it for privacy, I would never use a free VPN for that and even less one without a paid version (where do they get the money for the service?) I use it to bypass regional blocks or blocked pages in my country (due to piracy in most cases) and for that it works quite decently.
Last I knew, Opera was owned by a Chinese company. I don’t have a problem with the Chinese people, but their onerous government gives me pause. I don’t want to contribute to them financially any more than I absolutely have to (considering it’s virtually impossible to buy much of anything nowadays that doesn’t have their hooks in it outside of food - and there’s probably even something I’m missing there).
I’m not interested in debate of this topic, as virtually every time I have engaged in such in the past it’s quickly become obvious that the other person was not engaging in good faith with an open mind.
There is plenty of information to be found from all sides on the topic on the net, and if you’re truly interested you should invest the time to look it over with a skeptical eye while knowing there’s a good amount of propaganda from both sides. You’ll have to figure out which sources are most trustworthy, and factual in their reporting - although even the more biased sources often make good points to be considered. Then compare and contrast stories to find the essential facts that are most likely to actually be true and go from there.
Yes, I think that at least part of the property is owned by a Chinese consortium (I think not 100% of the company) it also uses Chormium with everything it implies and as I said the VPN is free which itself should make anyone suspicious. I didn’t mean to say that opera is perfect as a browser, but this specific service provides it better than firefox and despite its problems, for me, the work boards function is what makes me use it by default
Opera’s VPN doesn’t require registration and has no limits, So it’s a free VPN, don’t use it for anything important, but at least it’s not an obvious scam.
VPN is just a virtual wire to someone else’s computer. Somrone has to pay that. Also, you have to trust the owner with your browsing data.
It’s more like a DNS as far as I know. They also had a service for opera mini j2me and Symbian to mirror webapps from a server (so it might be that technology). With how the tech works, I wouldn’t really trust it’s privacy (but it still was the only decent option in 2018, when I actually used it).
I don’t use it for privacy, I would never use a free VPN for that and even less one without a paid version (where do they get the money for the service?) I use it to bypass regional blocks or blocked pages in my country (due to piracy in most cases) and for that it works quite decently.
Last I knew, Opera was owned by a Chinese company. I don’t have a problem with the Chinese people, but their onerous government gives me pause. I don’t want to contribute to them financially any more than I absolutely have to (considering it’s virtually impossible to buy much of anything nowadays that doesn’t have their hooks in it outside of food - and there’s probably even something I’m missing there).
Tell me more, fellow human.
“It’s a trap!” Admiral Ackbar
I’m not interested in debate of this topic, as virtually every time I have engaged in such in the past it’s quickly become obvious that the other person was not engaging in good faith with an open mind.
There is plenty of information to be found from all sides on the topic on the net, and if you’re truly interested you should invest the time to look it over with a skeptical eye while knowing there’s a good amount of propaganda from both sides. You’ll have to figure out which sources are most trustworthy, and factual in their reporting - although even the more biased sources often make good points to be considered. Then compare and contrast stories to find the essential facts that are most likely to actually be true and go from there.
Good luck.
The Chinese people? Eh their fine. People all suck tho so they probably suck too.
Chinese government? Eh they suck. But all governments suck.
Governments are made up of the people of the country. So all people and all governments suck.
Thus it can be concluded humanity sucks me included.
A very human response from a human, indeed.
Yes, I think that at least part of the property is owned by a Chinese consortium (I think not 100% of the company) it also uses Chormium with everything it implies and as I said the VPN is free which itself should make anyone suspicious. I didn’t mean to say that opera is perfect as a browser, but this specific service provides it better than firefox and despite its problems, for me, the work boards function is what makes me use it by default
Even if you’re not concerned about China but some other bad actors, they might still be able to easily purchase the data from the Chinese government…
That is kind of an issue with almost any vpn service however…