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Opera has dropped its mobile VPN app now that the development team has left.
The browser maker has discontinued both its Android and iOS VPN clients after SurfEasy, the developer Opera had acquired in 2015, parted ways with the company.
[...] If you're an Opera Gold user, you'll have the option of a free one-year subscription to SurfEasy's Ultra VPN service. Everyone else, meanwhile, can use the Opera VPN app to subscribe to SurfEasy Total for 99 cents per month instead of the usual $5.
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/30/opera-discontinues-mobile-vpn-app/
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Opera Discontinues its Mobile VPN App
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @06:35PM (3 children)
I was able to connect using it just now on Android, and confirmed I was using a different IP address. Guess it's not quite dead yet.
Any free alternatives?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @07:11PM (1 child)
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @07:21PM
What makes you think a paid VPN is any better?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 03 2018, @03:14AM
tor
(Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday May 02 2018, @07:11PM
So ... you acquire a company, add their product to yours, but it the original developers leave 3 years later, you have to pull it back out?
Someone near the top needs to get fired for gross incompetence.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday May 02 2018, @08:09PM (1 child)
PIA.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Freeman on Wednesday May 02 2018, @09:28PM
That's not just the acronym for Private Internet Access.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"