Add custom bypass URL's for VPN

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

VPN in Opera is very useful and great. But the only improvement I think would be in order is implementing extra modes to use VPN in. Currently it's either ON everywhere or OFF everywhere. I think that implementing a "ON on a list of sites" or "OFF on a list of sites" option would benefit both the user experience (faster speed on sites you don't need VPN on, while still enjoying security for the sites you want VPN on) and the opera devs (currently more often than not I just leave VPN ON all the time, resulting in a serious amount of traffic for your servers, while I only find a portion of that traffic really useful, rest is waste).

[leocg]

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[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Hi guys,

Would it be possible to add a feature to add sites to bypass the VPN?

I use the VPN feature quite often but we have a local streaming service that is only available in South Africa. Every time I visit the site, I need to disable the VPN.

If I can exclude this site or whitelist it, I won;t need to disable the VPN. Something to look at?

Thanks.

[leocg]

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[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Bump!
I would like to add Youtube.com to Bypass VPN list.
It would be great to have an option for that.

[miguelbellas]

miguelbellas last edited by

Basically one doesn't always need the VPN on on some cases, and it should be an ineresting feature no other browser has, to develop a web page based VPN. If you're on a specific page it's on on that one only.

[MrAli]

MrAli last edited by

it could be very useful for users as well as opera to add the option for users to except their selected websites from opera VPN network. it has following advantages:

1- for opera, it reduce the load on its VPN network so VPN will get more speed, bandwidth, and will become more stable,
2- for users, some webpages are safe enoght for the users so they can bypass that websites from VPN and will get better speed on that webpages.

I hope opera team consider this suggestion

[Wildboy]

Wildboy @MrAli last edited by

@MrAli
Agreed 200%

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Hi guys, any news on this? I'd like to use this feature as well.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

bump

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@dylandev You've posted here just about a week ago, no need to bump the topic to soon. Wait at least three major versions of Opera to be released before bumping a suggestion/request.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

This what I am looking for. Specially when using streaming sites like youtube.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by A Former User

I think that a lot of people even do not assume that web services use CDN with domain that is not equals to domain of the site.
For example: if you add youtube.com as a site to bypass, it would have no sense (if you want to save "VPN" bandwidth), because videos loads from CDN, their URL looks like that: https://r2---sn-5hnekn7k.googlevideo.com, images too – their domain is i.ytimg.com.

[A Former User]

A Former User @Guest last edited by

@anonan , this feature will not check request URLs, VPN feature will be disabled for certain tab.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

this feature will not check request URLs, VPN feature will be disabled for certain tab.

There is no mention about it in this topic.

If you think that "Bypass VPN for default search engines" option works the same way, you are wrong. It works as I wrote above.

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The example:

Non-through VPN

• Request URL: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=123
• Remote Address: 176.34.155.23:443

Through VPN (It's in the same tab)

• Request URL: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/okegom.fandom.com.ico
• Remote Address: 77.111.247.59:443
  (Real address is 54.75.239.212:443)

[A Former User]

A Former User @Guest last edited by

@anonan okey, I don't know how VPN feature is implemented and works at background in opera, but actually my previous message is just a suggestion

[Wildboy]

Wildboy last edited by Wildboy

I think people bother to take time to write here is to give valuable suggestions to Opera so it can explore how to make it work.
But what i see is some smart people here quickly jump into defense and tell us it won't work.
That, my friend, is the main difference in company philosophy between Google and Yahoo and see how those two companies land.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by leocg

The idea of a built in VPN is great, but it needs a bit of tweaking.

Not all sites visited require the use of VPN, and some sites out there won't recognize you if you don't use the IP you had when creating your account. Therefore it is important to make the VPN option site-specific; meaning that you would have the option to either turn it on globally with an exception switch on some sites or an option to switch it on on specific sites only...

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I do see my self forgetting to switch off the VPN when im done with a particular site, and im sure the owners of the VPN will appreciate this feature as it saves lots of bandwidth..
please like comment so it gets popular...

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I need to exempt specific sites because Banks and other financial companies will not let me sign in unless I go through a verification process each time.