Opera browser now comes with baked-in VPN

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Edvard:
The sale to Some Chinese investors has been postponed, so in the meantime, Opera devs have been busy with a pretty cool new browser feature...
Opera browser bakes in free VPN
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Opera's baked-in VPN will let users access sites blocked in their countries, or by their employers or schools. It will also anonymize the user -- the VPN disguises the actual IP address of the user -- by making it appear that the browser originated elsewhere. In a public setting, such as a coffee shop's Wi-Fi network, a VPN also provides a secure "tunnel" to the destination, preventing theft of credentials and personal information like passwords.

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http://www.computerworld.com/article/3060061/web-browsers/opera-browser-bakes-in-free-vpn.html

from over there... up and to the right... no, more to the left... wait, no, down just a hair.. aw cripes, never mind, I'll get it myself.

MilesAhead:
Any VPN I ever tried on the college WiFi just did not function. Apparently they know what it is and how to thwart it. I haven't tried at a cafe or similar establishment. I don't quite get why they do what they do here at school. You can upload to a cloud service through your browser, but FTP using an FTP client such as FileZilla will not connect. So it cannot be to save bandwidth. Perhaps it is because vanilla FTP is insecure. I am just guessing though.

But I doubt the VPN would establish just because it is wrapped in Opera. At least not on this WiFi at MDC.

hamradio:
The stable 40.x release has the VPN now:

http://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/09/free-vpn-in-opera-browser-40/

I am waiting for the Portable version before trying it. Mainly because I have legacy Opera 12.18 64 bit installed. With the portable if I don't like it I can just delete the folder(most likely.)

-MilesAhead (September 21, 2016, 10:21 AM)
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If you go into the options of the download I believe it has a "Stand-alone installation (USB)" option as seen below...

Opera browser now comes with baked-in VPN

MilesAhead:
The stable 40.x release has the VPN now:

http://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/09/free-vpn-in-opera-browser-40/

I am waiting for the Portable version before trying it. Mainly because I have legacy Opera 12.18 64 bit installed. With the portable if I don't like it I can just delete the folder(most likely.)

-MilesAhead (September 21, 2016, 10:21 AM)
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If you go into the options of the download I believe it has a "Stand-alone installation (USB)" option as seen below...

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-hamradio (September 21, 2016, 04:23 PM)
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I hate it when they fake me out like that. :)
Thanks. :Thmbsup:

Edit: I am a bit confused now. Your screen shot shows "invalid attachment"

Never mind. I see it now. :)

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