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Reminder that Opera has a free built-in VPN not private but free and always available
by ck2 10y ago
Reminder that Opera has a free built-in VPN
not private but free and always available
- 7ewis 10y agoI read the news on this but just assumed there would be a catch. Is it for web traffic only? So no torrents? Any logging? Speed?
- alwillis 10y agoIt’s a proxy—not a VPN: https://gist.github.com/spaze/558b7c4cd81afa7c857381254ae7bd10 https://gist.github.com/spaze/558b7c4cd81afa7c857381254ae7bd...
- Dylan16807 10y agoWhat's the practical difference? And don't say it's because it only affects Opera traffic: you can configure a system-wide proxy, and you can VPN a single program.
- rahimnathwani 10y agoWhat happens to outbound UDP packets when the 'VPN' is active? Can they be inspected or modified by your ISP?
- Dylan16807 10y agoI don't think Opera would be sending UDP packets. If if did, they would be encrypted through the tunnel.
- rahimnathwani 10y agoThis is incorrect, at least it was in April this year: The head engineer of Opera for computers Krystian Kolondra: “Currently WebRTC and plugins are still not routed that way”[0] The technical difference between a VPN and a proxy is typically that the proxy works at the application layer (layer 7) of the network stack, whereas a VPN creates a new network interface and operates at the network layer (layer 3). The practical implications (which you asked about) are: i) With a proxy, there's no new system network interface, so no way for other apps to use it ii) A proxy is application-specific (in this case HTTP and HTTPS) so other protocols (even those that opera supports, like WebRTC) can't go through it. [0]https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/04/22/opera-browser-vpn-proxy/ https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/04/22/opera-browser-vpn...