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"a native, unlimited and free VPN client, right inside your browser!" Serious question: Money wise, how are they able to afford this?

• lucaspiller 10y ago
  Data of course! Opera (the company) are one of the big players in mobile advertising. They have their own mobile ad platform [0], and a few years ago acquired a couple of agencies that specialise in mobile advertising [1]. [0] http://operamediaworks.com/ http://operamediaworks.com/ [1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/16/opera-snaps-up-mobile-theory-4th-screen-for-26m-in-mobile-ad-push/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/16/opera-snaps-up-mobile-theor...
  • a_imho 10y ago
    If they can support a secure, adless, anonymous desktop browser for PR exposure by relying on the mobile version displaying ads I would be ok with that.
  • Flott 10y ago
    This is exactly what I fear. It's still a useful service but I believe Opera should say clearly what they do with the data they handle.
  • EugeneOZ 10y ago
    Connection is encrypted
    • niij 10y ago
      To their servers.. Allowing any non end-to-end encrypted information to be harvested at Opera's VPN point.
      • EugeneOZ 10y ago
        Or your provider, or Opera, or own server with VPN. For majority of people setting up own server is too complicated, so it's much better than nothing, especially when you are in place where you can use only non-secure wifi network.
  • Spivak 10y ago
    Just to point out, if you have a distaste for this monetization strategy and you're reading this in Chrome I've got some bad news for you.
    • niij 10y ago
      How so? I'm genuinely curious what information Google collects? Is Chromium better to use in this case?