Opera Launches Free VPN for iOS

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Posted May 9, 2016 at 12:42pm by iClarified

Opera has released Opera VPN, a free VPN app for iOS that lets you bypass firewalls and access blocked content.

Opera VPN blocks ads and lets you change your virtual location. Unblock more content and stop trackers from following you around the web — completely free.

Features:
- One of the fastest, most reliable VPN services
- Unblocked access via your choice of five virtual locations (Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Singapore, United States)
- A built-in ad blocker for ads in Safari, Chrome and other apps
- A built-in tracker blocker to enhance online privacy

You can download Opera VPN from the App Store for free.

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Joe - May 10, 2016 at 8:02pm

Worked then abruptly blocked ALL my Wi-Fi. Cellular was still fine. Took a Reset Network and router reboot to fix.

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Titan3636 - May 10, 2016 at 1:17am

It throttles my home wifi speeds from 30 to 5 Mbps. Is this common?

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Darryn - May 10, 2016 at 4:07am

This can happen yes.

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JoshvanHulst - May 10, 2016 at 2:47pm

Yeah VPNs can dictate the speeds they offer you. That's not really all that fast

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Titan3636 - May 10, 2016 at 1:10am

Agreed. Is this something I should do?? Haven't educated myself too much about VPNs.

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JoshvanHulst - May 10, 2016 at 2:56pm

VPNs are useful in two ways: 1). It essentially makes you appear in another location as you are connecting to a remote server that takes your incoming traffic and you are assigned an IP by that server. So it's like if you are located physically at the server in a "virtual" way. 2).It routes your traffic around firewalls such as McAfee, Bluecoat (usually in corporate settings) that force all traffic to use their proxy server. What a VPN is great for, is that it encrypts your data and prevents the proxy firewall from seeing what sites or things you are doing online, so the firewall is unable to block certain sites from loading. One great is Netflix with their regionally geographic blocks they have placed in various countries. The thing is that Virtual Private Networks are going to be sure when they have several users on at the same time, and also there is a slow response time fro when the data is sent out and the server has to send a data back from a far location can cause everything to download slower. It could go more in-depth, but that's the overall sense of what it does.

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Spawntech - May 9, 2016 at 2:33pm

Nothing is for free so what's the catch?

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RezaT - May 9, 2016 at 4:03pm

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Butterspider - May 9, 2016 at 6:15pm

Ad blocker that gives ads?! Nope. I think its a market share push. Good idea i say.

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Butterspider - May 9, 2016 at 1:06pm

Interested in hearing reviews on this from the highbrows in this sort of thing. Seems to run fine so far.

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