Since yesterday (9/30/17) very much VPN download attempts abort after one or two MB with "interrupted: network error" message. It doesn't matter if I use Opera stable or Opera dev build, but it matters to which VPN location / IP I'm connected to. Some VPN locations / IPs still work, others don't. So it's most likely a VPN server-sided update causing the problem which has been rolled out to some VPN servers (but not to all yet). It's the very same issue like the "VPN download from SSL secured servers abort" problem, but now it happens to non SSL connections too.

Thank God there are absolutely no bugs in the regular Opera browser so the devs have free time for a fun project :whistle: :lol:

Seriously: I hope the snapshot tool and the split screen will be ported to the regular Opera browser :yes:

Sometimes I wanna add a website to my bookmarks in more than one folder. Please make this possible.

Then I'd like to see if Opera could remember my preferred way of bookmark images. For example: When I add a bookmark the bookmark image is always one of the embedded pictures of the website. But I wanna have the screenshot of the website as bookmark image. So I have to scroll through the suggested images until I get the "screenshot". So please make Opera to remember that I prefer a screenshot as bookmark image.

Third I miss a "date added" column in bookmarks. And please let every action take effect in all subfolders of bookmarks. For example: When I rightclick in "my folders" and say "sort alphabetically" it should sort every bookmark in every folder and subfolder alphabetically.

Meanwhile it reminds me of an SSL handshake failure between VPN servers and the Opera client?! Please devs, check this out if something's going on like this.

More and more websites (for sure mostly those ones of the darker side of the internet) use JavaScript crypto miner which result in up to 100 per cent CPU load. It's not that a big thing to block them with 3rd party add-ons like uBlock origin or just with built-in Opera JavaScript configuration or Opera adblocking custom lists, but I am pretty sure there will be more and more websites who use those scripts and they will be obfuscated and harder to block in the future.

So I suggest Opera to detect and stop JavaScripts with unusual high CPU usage automatically. I am pretty sure crypto mining scripts will be the next big (totally annoying crap) thing.

Further reading:

https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-website-runs-a-cryptocurrency-miner-170916/

@andrew84 said in Opera 68.0.3609.0 developer update:

Make VPN's location dropdown to be wide as previously.

Thanks, meanwhile it's back again. The moment I postet, there were only three locations available in the drop-down menu (optimal, Europe, Americas).

What happend to the Asian VPN location in 68.0.3609.0? Is it no longer available?

The Opera VPN App for Android and iOS has been discontinued:

https://www.operavpn.com/

But there is no such announcement for Opera Browser for Windows.

Can't connect to ANY website using Asian or "optimal location" on VPN since today. American and Europe locations are fine. Is Opera working on this issue?

@prime99 said in VPN download: "interrupted: network error":

My vpn has switched to 4 locations like Americas, Europe, Asia. Though all my vpn addresses seem to be in Norway.

Same here, but Google thinks I'm in Russia or Ukraine or wherever Cyrillic is used (can't read anything)

PS: Yes, Opera built-in VPN is getting worse and worse....

@mlowickiatwork said in VPN download: "interrupted: network error":

Hi,

Can you please check build from http://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2017/11/opera-51-0-2791-0-developer-update-renewed-vpn/ to see if this issue reproduces there?

Sorry for late response. It's mainly caused by work on in-house VPN infrastructure.

Unfortunately VPN downloads still abort with the renewed VPN in Opera dev 51.0.2791.0 (tested with location "Europe" / IP "77.111.244.29").

@chuchkyschild said in VPN engaged but get warning from ISP about a download:

turn on the encryption in the torrent client it does work. vpn is great for hiding the fact that you're downloading a torrent or magnet, and the encryption in your torrent client in most cases will keep your isp from seeing what you are downloading.

But it doesn't prevent all other clients from seeing your IP. It's not your ISP who cares what you do, it's the right owner and his law firm. They pretend to be an ordinary peer but in fact it's a monitoring software which logs every client uploading chunks to them. Depending on the country you reside they go to the criminal justice, prosecutor, court or ISP with the logged IP and resolve them to the internet subscriber and that's the point you are busted.

Opera provides a browser based VPN service, not a system wide VPN which tunnels every traffic of every software installed on your computer through a VPN server. If you are looking for privacy protection for sharing your birthday and holiday videos through bit torrent, Opera can't help you. That's much more the business of SurfEasy paid plans:

https://www.surfeasy.com/features/

No registry entry, no uTorrent setting will help you, because other peers can see your IP address. Only obfuscating your real IP through a system wide VPN (like SurfEasy) will prevent you from being busted.

It's pretty clear to me you downloaded a small torrent file (a few KBytes) through Opera VPNs servers but started it in a torrent client, which down- and uploaded chunks of your shared file to other peers through your unprotected internet connection. You have to understand, that Opera only protects its own browser traffic and not the traffic of any other program.

In my opinion it would make much more sense to open a sixth subcategory in "Opera for computers" for non-platform specific issues than discussing them on the subcategories page itself.

Opening a new topic shouldn't be enabled on the subcategories page of "Opera for computers":

https://forums.opera.com/category/5/opera-for-computers

That's looking like a mess.