Reefa Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 You may not have given the Opera browser a second look before, but you may want to soon if you care about your online privacy. They’ve just bought a Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider.Making your browser stand out — particular when you build it on top of the same codebase as Google Chrome — isn’t an easy task. It’s sort of like making a smartphone stand out, and you can ask HTC what that takes in 2015.But like HTC and their “Uh Oh Protection,” Opera may have found their angle: privacy. The company they acquired is Canada’s SurfEasy. Currently, they develop VPN apps for Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS, and they also make a secure browser-on-a-stick.Over the past year, SurfEasy’s business has been booming. They’ve added more than 6 million customers to their zero-logging service in the last twelve months, thanks in part to Edward Snowden’s revelations about the state of online surveillance.There’s another big reason they’re picking up customers in droves. SurfEasy also tears down geographical content barriers. Loads of non-Americans are using SurfEasy to connect to services like Hulu and Netflix. Adding “VPN in a tab” to Opera would be pretty amazing, but beefed-up private browsing and the built-in ability to unlock geo-restricted content would make Opera a very attractive app to a lot of surfers.For the time being, Opera has no plans to shut down SurfEasy’s existing services. They’ll be left alone while Opera and SurfEasy figure out how they’re going to meld their products. One approach: making the VPN mode work like the data-saving Opera Max does.All users need to know about Max is that flipping the switch helps them avoid burning through their data allowance. A similar switch for privacy — and unrestricted access — would be awesome.http://www.geek.com/apps/opera-buys-a-vpn-company-to-make-private-browsing-really-private-1618370/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Thing is Opera is based on Chromium if they cared about privacy at all they would make it were you could turn WebRTC off but you cant . I lost all use for them when they became Opera Chrome . :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefa Posted March 20, 2015 Author Share Posted March 20, 2015 Just wondering i mean i dont use it neither.. But is there not an addon to turn off WebRTC like in firefox..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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steven36 Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Just wondering i mean i dont use it neither.. But is there not an addon to turn off WebRTC like in firefox..?Chromium removed that from there flags to turn it off there use to be and addon that worked for Chromium but after it got made public to use it for chrome . They updated the WebRTC stun servers and broke the addon in all Chromium based browsers . So it no longer works . Its more of a problem for people who hooks right to there router or uses a proxy + a vpn, than it is if your on network though running though and adapter. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefa Posted March 20, 2015 Author Share Posted March 20, 2015 Just wondering i mean i dont use it neither.. But is there not an addon to turn off WebRTC like in firefox..?Chromium removed that from there flags to turn it off there use to be and addon that worked for Chromium but after it got made public to use it for chrome . They updated the WebRTC stun servers and broke the addon in all Chromium based browsers . So it no longer works . Its more of a problem for people who hooks right to there router or uses a proxy + a vpn, than it it is if your on network though running though and adapter. ;) Cheers for the info mate.. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CODYQX4 Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 I use Chrome but my VPN setup returns VPN IP, RTC be damned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe13 Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Chrome 42 WebRTC Release Notes.M42SummaryIn addition, this release turns IPv6 on by default, and provides a mechanism to force all WebRTC traffic through a VPN when desired.FeaturesIssue 333752 & 4276: Added a mode which disables multiple routes for ICE, and thereby only exposes stun and relay candidates for the default route. While this may reduce QoS in several cases, it will ensure all WebRTC traffic is forced through the default route. This gives VPN users a way to force WebRTC traffic through their VPN. Note that this is a first step, and we expect to refine this solution in the future. Bugs Issue 3135 : Fixed problem in webrtc code, that might cause us to send NACK packets excessively. Issue 3868: Fixed problem in webrtc being unable to connect to TURN servers by hostname. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emerglines Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Just to remind people here, to disable WebRTC on Firefox:Type "About:config" on url barThen search for "media.peerconnection.enabled"Turn it to "False". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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