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...

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...

If we talked about Browsers compatibility, Opera is one the best and lightest browser in the online market, Off course it has huge numbers of features and customization which no one has right now, but when we talked about Free VPN extension on Opera It's pretty cool but not the best choice that you can get.

People mostly consider to get VPN service to enhance their security and hide their visibility. More simply to understand is: when you download torrent file, it will download anonymously, but when you start seed it through Utorrent or Bittorrent it will go through Naked Internet Connection and visible.

VPN Encryption is the best solution for those guys (http://www.beencrypted.com/how-to-encrypt-internet-traffic/) in this guide you can see how you can Encrypt your internet traffic.

I would highly recommend to use full and 100% VPN Encryption instead of using Proxy or VPN extensions on web browsers. https://www.mostsecurevpn.com/cheap-vpn-services/

When Opera appeared with its free VPN app for iOS I configured it on my I Phone but after using few days I realized its features and servers are limited in fact you cannot connect to your desire country server. Another measure thing that free VPNs keep logs and your internet traffic details share with ISP's so it is reliable to use the best VPNs for iOS http://www.vpnlogics.com/best-vpn-for-iphone/

See the differences of VPN and Proxies: https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/4085/proxies-vs-vpn-whats-the-d...

Free VPN in Opera is not a good choice because it keeps logs and also free VPN service used by hackers.

"Opera VPN behind the curtains is just a proxy, here's how it works"

https://gist.github.com/spaze/558b7c4cd81afa7c857381254ae7bd...

Too bad, they didn't update the mobile version anymore. Current Opera on Google Play is stuck at Chromium version 50.

May be useful, however too bad it's blocked by netflix