Once the user enables the feature in settings, Opera VPN sends API requests to to obtain credentials and proxy IPs. This might be used for user tracking for whatever purpose,” Špaček added. “There’s also a potential privacy issue: when setting up the VPN, the browser requests something called device_id, this is subsequently sent in every request to the proxy and it survives browser restarts and reinstalls unless you also delete your user data when uninstalling. Other tools you use, including for example email clients like Outlook, won’t use this ‘VPN’,” Špaček told Help Net Security. You still need a full VPN if privacy is what you care about (and you should care about your privacy). Michal Špaček, a web developer and security engineer based in Prague, researched the way Opera’s VPN works and discovered there’s more marketing than security behind Opera’s claims. “We want to be an ecosystem with a billion users.Yesterday, Opera announced they’ve added a free VPN client with unlimited data usage in the latest developer version of their browser. “Facebook and Google have their ecosystems and now we have one too, in a part of the world that is growing incredibly fast and where we will become very strong,” Boilesen told Reuters. Large shareholders accounting for 33% of its shares have already agreed to accept it. “We believe that the consortium, with its breadth of expertise and strong market position in emerging markets, will be a strong owner of Opera,” said chief executive Lars Boilesen.įor the acquisition to go through, more than 90% of Opera’s shareholders will have to accept the offer.
In the final quarter of 2015, the company’s revenues were $193.5m from a mixture of mobile ads and technology licensing to connected-TV partners such as Humax and LG. It has also just launched an initiative called Opera Apps Club, which the company is billing as a “Netflix-style subscription service for premium Android apps”, to be offered through mobile operators. The company has four different mobile browsers available: Opera Mini, Opera Browser, Opera Max and Opera Coast, as well as its desktop and TV versions. Mobile research firm App Annie estimated in January that Qihoo’s 360 Mobile Security app was the fifth most-downloaded app in the world in 2015 across Android and iOS – ahead of apps such as Skype, YouTube and Snapchat.Īt the end of 2015, Opera had 281 million users of its mobile browsers, as well as another 59 million using its desktop application. The software companies are hoping to promote their products to Opera’s browser users, as well as using its mobile advertising network. Mobile games and apps firm Kunlun and internet-security company Qihoo have teamed up with investment firms Golden Brick and Yonglian for the deal.
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