@leocg thanks! I didnt want to accuse anyone, I just wanted an answer, as I said, and I wanted to contextualize where my question was coming from and what my (reasonable) fear was.

I appreciate your answer.

I hope the tone of this post doesnt come out too accusatory. I have no reason not to believe in Opera people's good faith, but I am sincerely still flabbergasted by this realization and I'd like an answer.

So, I just discovered that the free VPN service called Hola basically works by giving out the IP of its free user base as a fake IPs to those that pay for it. It is basically used by, among others, scalpers to loop over attempts to block bots to drain marketplaces (since the IP comes from an household and not from a datacenter etc).

"When a product is free, you are the product", and all that jazz.

I wonder how does the free Opera VPN operates. Is it the same? Is my IP given out to some Deep Web POS to conduct their shady business while I just want to enjoy some regional locked content in peace once in a blue moon? Or is it something else? And is this "something else" enforced whether I have the VPN activated or not?

Thanks in advance.

same here.

if you add this with flash and ccs problems thing are piling up and pushing me onto some other browser, which is a pity bcause it's years ive been using opera...

hello guys.

id like to list my problem not only with youtube, but also with facebook (when you click on the newseed on the right panel the windows with someone else's activity wont go away) and discus (when you have an update about your account and you click to see it the screen turns just grey)

now i will try the partial masking and i will try to extend it to the other sites. sure thing is when you tamper with facebook and youtube you dont have much place to run to, now have you.