This can be disabled in the settings if you prefer. Again though, you need to be aware that this doesn’t protect the rest of your operating system or any other apps.īy default, Opera bypasses the VPN for the default search engines, this means you get local Google results and that Google can see your real IP address, but if you follow any links to search results, the website will see your VPN IP address. No IPv6, DNS or WebRTC leaks are present for requests being made in your browser. You don’t have to worry about any traffic logging. Opera’s privacy statement is simple when it comes to what data they log from the VPN: “ we do not log any information related to your browsing activity and originating network address.”. Opera uses the best available 256-bit AES cipher to encrypt your connection to its VPN servers. HTTPS as you’re likely aware is the standard method of encrypting web communications. Need to restart the browser to change which VPN servers you can connect to in each region.Īs Opera’s built-in VPN isn’t really a VPN it doesn’t use a standard VPN protocol like OpenVPN, it does however use HTTPS. Split tunnelling feature can allow you to bypass the VPN exclusively for search results. Technically a secure proxy rather than a VPN as it only protects browser traffic.Ĭan’t select a specific country to connect to, just one of three vague regions.
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