Just under two years after launching on the iOS App Store, Opera this week announced that its free "Opera VPN" app will be permanently discontinued as of April 30, 2018. Opera's virtual private ...

Over the past few years, Virtual Private Networks (VPN) have become popular to bypass censorship, skirt around surveillance, and break past local restrictions. Names like ProtonVPN, NordVPN, ...

The Opera web browser has included a simple free VPN for a very long time, but it only protects your browser traffic, has almost no features and is generally very slow. Opera has now unveiled Opera ...

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Once upon a time, VPNs were pieces of technology that made it possible for you to work remotely and still have access to internal files and directories (as if you were local). VPNs of today serve a ...

Pour one out for Olaf. No, not the charming snowman from Disney’s Frozen, the mascot for Opera’s free VPN app. Opera has announced that the warmhearted Viking will be retiring at the end of April, ...

Update 4/30/18 at 3:38 P.M. EST: Today is the last day for Opera VPN before it is shut down for good. If you are a current Opera Gold subscriber, you can claim a free, one-year subscription to ...

Olaf, the friendly Viking mascot of Opera VPN, is sad. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac The end is nigh for a free VPN service for iOS and Android. Opera VPN will close at the end of this month. No reason ...

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Opera R2020 is available on Windows, MacOS, and Linux—meanwhile, Opera Touch, for mobile devices, is available on Android and iOS. We tested Opera on both Linux and Windows, and we also tested Opera ...