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Thursday, April 21, 2016

Opera brings built-in VPN provider to its browser

Whenever Opera acquired the digital private network (VPN) support SurfEasy last March, it obviously did to build that technology into its browser and perhaps its Opera Max data-savings application. It took more than the usual year, but now Opera is really launching a built-in version of SurfEasy within the early release developer edition of its browser.

The built-in VPN may protect your unencrypted browser session to be exposed on public WiFi networks and can also let you bypass the casual firewall at your place of work or in countries such as China. It will additionally assign you an digital IP address, so it’ll be harder to track where you are.

Unlike the full edition of SurfEasy, this built-in support only protects your internet browser session, though, and no other traffic that arises from your computer.
“Everyone deserves to end up being private online if they would like to be. By adding a totally free, unlimited VPN directly to the browser, no additional download or even extensions from an unknown third-party provider are essential, ” Opera SVP Krystian Kolondra stated in today’s announcement.

For the time being, you can choose in between three virtual locations (USA, North America and Germany), but the organization says more will be accessible once this feature causes it to be to the stable release channel later this season.

Right now, this feature continues to be somewhat hidden in Opera’s configurations menu. To give this an attempt, install the developer version of Opera after which look for the “Privacy & Security” tabs and toggle this function on. Hopefully, this will end up a one-click affair much like turning on Opera Turbo as soon as this feature hits the actual stable release channel.

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