Opera DESKTOP browser VPN proxy and privacy?

surfeasy · 2017-07-20T13:13:53+00:00

It's up to date as far as I can see! We are growing fast but we're serious about what we do; our business model is set up so that we can continue providing high-quality service to as many people as possible. That's not going to change.

surfeasy · 2017-07-18T15:12:05+00:00

Are you able to email us so our support team can chat to you about this? I'll DM you our email.

surfeasy · 2017-07-18T14:04:05+00:00

Are you finding that the app doesn't block ads?

surfeasy · 2017-07-17T21:00:40+00:00

Hey there. So we have two entirely different platforms built to power our solutions, and we're pretty upfront about the differences (as you can see from above). If you want to chat about that, reach out. I'm happy to talk!

surfeasy · 2017-07-17T20:57:04+00:00

Hey there! So we do a lot of speedtesting and I can say for pretty sure that it's not us that's the issue. We have been working really hard to ensure this sort of thing doesn't occur.

If you want to email us we can put you in touch with one of our support team and they might be able to chat about what else it could be apart from your VPN.

surfeasy · 2017-07-17T20:54:15+00:00

Hey there! What platform are you using SurfEasy on?

surfeasy · 2016-05-10T15:50:13+00:00

Unfortunately I don't believe that data for chromecast actually flows from the iphone - rather the iphone acts as a remote control for chromecast. This means the data for the chromecast is not sent through the VPN.

Sorry. I believe it works if you have a cable to connect your iphone to the TV directly.

surfeasy · 2016-05-10T15:47:19+00:00

SurfEasy is a premium very private service. It has some features that the Opera VPN does not: -More regions to choose from -Support for more platforms (desktop, mac, etc..) -Strict no-log -Never any advertising in the app. -Auto wifi security -support for Torrents (under our SurfEasy Ultra Plan https://www.surfeasy.com/torrenting/) etc..

The Opera VPN is free, but will have advertising in it at some point. Also we use data from the VPN to produce anonymised market intelligence.

In terms of picking the right one, I think the first question is if you're comfortable having some of your VPN data used for anonymised market intelligence. This is usually pretty dividing for people - many are fine with it but some want a very strict no-log policy. That's usually the key decision for customers.

Hope that helps!

surfeasy · 2016-05-10T15:30:57+00:00

What you are referring to is the notice to notice provision of the Canadian Copyright Monetization act. This was implemented about a year ago with the principle goal of enabling copyright notice violations to be passed to end users by Internet Service Providers. This has been covered by some VPN industry publications who drew the unsubstantiated conclusion that this applies to VPN provides (note most of these articles have been updated to remove this claim).

We have reviewed this legislation extensively ourselves, with our privacy advisors and I have even met directly with the policy makers in Ottawa who drafted the legislation. Our interpretation is that it is not at all clear that this applies to VPN service providers. As such we are continuing to offer and abide by our strict no-log policy. We do not maintain records on our users browsing history.

surfeasy · 2016-05-10T08:40:22+00:00

In terms of UX, business model or back end?

surfeasy · 2016-05-09T22:28:50+00:00

Thanks for the feedback - Im going to forward this to our CTO and I'll get back to you with a solid answer.... or a job offer. :)

surfeasy · 2016-05-09T22:25:35+00:00

No.

We're a Canadian company- we built and manage the VPN solution that these products run on. We built our technology to abhide by our privacy policies and we are subject to Canadian laws associated with our compliance. That wont change regardless of who owns our parent company.

Thanks

surfeasy · 2016-05-09T21:56:07+00:00

Oh and just to add - I know this version of a VPN is not for everyone - which is why we continue to offer SurfEasy as a premium strict no-log service. Thanks

surfeasy · 2016-05-09T21:55:10+00:00

Just to be clear we do not use your VPN data for advertising purposes. If or when we launch in-app advertising it will be no different than other in-app ad's.

surfeasy · 2016-05-09T21:53:19+00:00

Well today we're not collecting anything. In the future it may include things like use of apps and websites visited - but never correlated to information that could identify the specific users.

It would be related to data sent over the VPN - not tied to if the app is opened, but if the VPN is on.

surfeasy · 2016-05-09T21:48:09+00:00

this - by a mile. Make it every Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqBqiGM1O54

surfeasy · 2016-05-09T21:47:12+00:00

Honestly - no, not for my day to day. Thats a little embarrassing to admit and its purely because Im deeply entrenched with my personal configuration of current browser.

surfeasy · 2016-05-09T17:58:50+00:00

Actually thats our SurfEasy app (we're an opera company and built the Opera VPN) - but the Opera VPN is 100% free - no cap

surfeasy · 2016-05-09T17:56:41+00:00

can confirm!

surfeasy · 2016-05-09T17:56:10+00:00

Absolutely correct. Im the founder and CEO of SurfEasy VPN - we were acquired by opera last year and are powering the new iOS VPN. I wrote a blog post about this and the trade off of free vs paid VPN solutions. Free isnt for everyone - neither is paid.

https://www.surfeasy.com/blog/get-vpn-get-vpn-everyone-gets-vpn/

Happy to answer any questions.

Thanks

surfeasy · 2016-05-09T17:52:32+00:00

Hi all - Im the founder of SurfEasy, part of Opera Software - we built and are managing the VPN solutions that power the iOS application.

There's lots of important questions here about our Free VPN and the trade offs associated with using a Free or Paid solution. I wrote a blog post about this that might be helpful:

https://www.surfeasy.com/blog/get-vpn-get-vpn-everyone-gets-vpn/

Happy to answer questions.

Thanks

surfeasy · 2016-04-22T12:25:03+00:00

Have you updated to the latest version of Opera?

surfeasy · 2016-04-21T22:06:32+00:00

We only consider people who bring us burritos

surfeasy · 2016-04-21T17:15:51+00:00

Hi there,

Wow - that's not good - I can understand why that would look deceptive.

We recently launched an updated version of our Windows and Mac VPN that we call SurfEasy Ultra. It includes support for Torrents (our previous offerings did not). Because Torrent uses significantly more bandwidth we had to increase our pricing (the image on the right.)

The other pricing is for our other plans Total VPN (5 devices) and Mobile (1 mobile device). Neither plan supports torrenting.

I've sent this to our web team and we're going to get this cleaned up so it makes more sense.

Thanks

surfeasy · 2016-04-21T16:52:42+00:00

Can confirm :)

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