<![CDATA[Please explain the force proxy!]]>Using Opera on LMDE2, after toying around with my VPN, which probably messed up connectivity for a while, requests sent by my local Opera come from addresses owned by Opera. It is clearly forcing some sort of proxy server while maintaining the browser string.

107.167.113.32 - - [21/Jan/2016:02:36:35 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 1720 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.73 Safari/537.36 OPR/34.0.2036.25"

190.100.96.30 - - [21/Jan/2016:02:36:11 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 1720 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.73 Safari/537.36 OPR/34.0.2036.25"

141.0.13.214 - - [21/Jan/2016:02:34:55 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 1720 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.73 Safari/537.36 OPR/34.0.2036.25"

These seem to belong to the opera mini cluster. Why would you be spying on my web traffic?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/13525/please-explain-the-force-proxyRSS for NodeSat, 14 Mar 2026 03:45:22 GMTThu, 21 Jan 2016 01:42:27 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Please explain the force proxy! on Thu, 21 Jan 2016 02:29:05 GMT]]>Turbo routes traffic through Opera's servers in order to compress data - if you have limited bandwidth (dial-up or DSL) or a data cap (as in, 10 GB per month). It is not Mini, it does not pre-render content, but it is like several other "internet accelerators" available. Though as far as "spying", Opera Turbo does not compress secure sites at all.

Mini is actually pre-rendered, and as such would need to route secure data through the proxy as well since the Mini client couldn't render it otherwise.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/91974https://forums.opera.com/post/91974Thu, 21 Jan 2016 02:29:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Please explain the force proxy! on Thu, 21 Jan 2016 01:47:34 GMT]]>Apparently it is the "Turbo" checkbox, which seems to turn the browser into an Opera Mini. How about a little bit of information when enabling this? I don't even remember doing it, must have been a complete accident.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/91973https://forums.opera.com/post/91973Thu, 21 Jan 2016 01:47:34 GMT