But this isn't what Opera Mini does or wants to do. It wants to compress and otherwise alter the data flowing through it, so that you get a faster experience wh

But this isn't what Opera Mini does or wants to do. It wants to compress and otherwise alter the data flowing through it, so that you get a faster experience when browsing on the mobile. To do this it needs to see the HTML, JS etc going through it. A TCP relay wouldn't be able to do that.