The news recently dropped that Opera will begin bundling a VPN into the beta version of their browser. This was met with cheers and positive articles from many tech blogs and subs all over Reddit. I've been trying to leave comments to provide this information, but figured it might be easier to put it all in a thread.
I want to take a minute to educate those reading these so that you can manage your expectations and learn why this is not a good solution for privacy conscious users.
Some facts:
On 10 February 2016, a group of Chinese investors offered $1.2 billion to buy the company:
Their CEO has said they operate more like a Chinese Company than a Western one:
Opera's business model is as an ad network.
Opera sells your usage and connection data to Google and Facebook as part of their model.
Opera purchased SurfEasy VPN just over a year ago:
SurfEasy is a VPN company located in Canada (a five eyes country)
They keep bandwidth and usage logs
Remember, if you aren't paying for it, YOU are the product. Opera isn't doing this out of the kindness of their heart, they are in it for your data as that's how they operate. There are many VPN companies that do not log their users data. They might ask a fee, but that's what's required for the best possible privacy in this arena.
by ThatOnePrivacyGuy http://ift.tt/1QqyWjS
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