Changes in vpn.
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A Former User last edited by
@magma500 I noticed... wish it had the flags, with TunnelBear at least they show the flag and you always have a different IP...
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A Former User last edited by
Terrible speeds in the new VPN in the US too. Though they have an options for the "Americas" in the country list I notice that I always connect to France. Wierd. My Opera just updated to 49.0.2725.64 (PGO)
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A Former User last edited by
The new VPN has 4 choice: Optimal, Americas, Europe and Asia. However, ALL the IP addresses are in France. Only the last set of digits in the IP address are different.
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A Former User last edited by
I downloaded opera like 2 weeks ago and I saw this is the only browser which is perfect and just for me.Vpn worked perfect until the last version.This is the only reason why I use Opera.I was happy with my Opera untill 2 days ago.The Vpn is very slow now.There are only Eu,US and Asia.I want the old opera.Google Chrome is better option for me now with Adblocker and Zenmate VPN.I will wait the old version for 1 week.
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A Former User last edited by
I'm running Opera's latest version on Windows 10 and all the VPN virtual locations (Singapore, Netherlands, Canada, US, Germany) have mysteriously disappeared since yesterday afternoon...Is it a bug and if so, is it gonna be fixed anytime soon ? I've never experienced that type of issues before. Thanks for taking the time to read my message.
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
Would only work for a little while ... Opera sold the VPN company they owned (SurfEasy) and thus is changing the built-in VPN to use Opera's own servers. Downloading old versions is easy enough from the FTP server, but you'd have to block the automatic updates (not hard) and the old VPN would soon stop working.
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blackbird71 last edited byOpera has sold its former VPN service (SurfEasy) and is replacing it with Opera's own VPN servers. New Opera browser versions reflect that changeover, whereas old browser versions will find it more difficult or impossible to connect to the old service in a timely way (since Opera no longer is affiliated with its operation).
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BOROYB88 last edited by
@sgunhouse make a quick VPN or you can not compete with Google Chrome and people will leave you
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A Former User last edited by
Today I noticed my Google search was in Russian. I turned off VPN and it was back to English. After awhile I turned it back on and again it was in Russian. Guess I will have to turn VPN off until they fix it.
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A Former User last edited by
Now I see Opera VPN is changing all my speed dial like AliExpress to french. Why can't they just leave it alone.
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A Former User last edited by
Well, I created a user only to comment that this VPN version of Opera has gotten worse since now we only have 3 VPN's and before we had 5 VPN's. What's worse in this world is that it loves a range for this service, 77.111.xxx.xxx, being easier to be blocked in public firewalls and in companies by basic rules of access statistics. Unfortunately the technical area of Opera does not analyze a visible problem. I hope this is only a test because the product was good before.
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A Former User last edited by
Does the dev team has any intentions off adding more location in the future ?
You could say Opera's special abilities against other browsers is that nice built-in VPN and the built-in Ad-block ... -
A Former User last edited by
Actually VPN its working so bad, it doesn't matter which conection Im using, I mean the region, in everyone it says "ukraine" and internet is very slow, three days ago everything was okay, the connection used to be in USA
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@omg3r Based on this blog post, it seems that only those three regions will be available.
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blackbird71 last edited by
@boroyb88 said in Changes in vpn.:
... Do you specifically make people a slave to technology? First you give a quick Vpn, and then reduce its speed by 90%
In this life, things change. In the business world, things change. When the VPN feature was added to Opera, the company had a corporate relationship with the VPN provider (SurfEasy, which operated a fair number of VPN servers worldwide). Then 'business-type' things happened, and Opera sold the VPN company to Symantec - which ended the corporate relationship with SurfEasy. Opera is attempting to put in place and tune their own network of VPN servers to be linked by their browser, and that network is not (yet) as extensive or traffic-capable as the SurfEasy one... perhaps it never will be quite the same, but that's yet to be seen. But nobody at Opera set out to make anyone a "slave" to anything; things sometimes happen in different sectors of a company (corporate management and browser development) for different reasons, and that sometimes causes unsought impacts.
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A Former User last edited by
@boroyb88, I expect that everyone has read the post about $ymantec buying the VPN service provider that Opera used previously, and how it it no longer possible to continue the VPN as before. This is not just a change for me, and I assume many others, it makes the built-in VPN useless for my purposes. Opera used to have a paid version. I would suggest going back to that model or at least provide a paid, premium VPN service that is simpler (probably by offering fewer locations) and less expensive than the average commercial VPNs. Obviously, the VPN contributed to the user base for the browser.
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A Former User last edited by
@boroyb88 Not just slow, if you change the regions, you would see the IP is similar, all located in Norway. And, every time I open www.google.com, it go to www.google.com.ua, Ukraine.
