{"id":17102,"date":"2016-04-21T13:26:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T12:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=17102"},"modified":"2016-04-21T13:26:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T12:26:21","slug":"opera-browser-has-free-built-in-vpn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2016\/04\/21\/opera-browser-has-free-built-in-vpn\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera browser has a free, built-in, VPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Developer version of the Opera browser offers a built-in free VPN with 256-bit encryption.  This is very easy to set up and use and enables users to pretend to be in the U.S., Canada or Germany, and thus to get around region-blocking of Web content. The Developer version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/developer\">is 38.0<\/a>, compared to the mainstream 36.0.  Seems to work fine on a quick test &mdash; getting me to a version of Bing with German language news insets, via a German IP address.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2016\/04\/enablevpn6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2016\/04\/enablevpn6.jpg\" alt=\"enablevpn6\" width=\"529\" height=\"374\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-17103\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2016\/04\/germany.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2016\/04\/germany.jpg\" alt=\"germany\" width=\"476\" height=\"465\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17104\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1.2Mb, just to load Bing&#8217;s front page? <em>Ooof<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Update, 12th May:<\/p>\n<p>The new VPN now only works when you open a &#8220;Private Window&#8221; in Opera&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2016\/04\/update.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2016\/04\/update.jpg\" alt=\"update\" width=\"529\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-17180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Developer version of the Opera browser offers a built-in free VPN with 256-bit encryption. This is very easy &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2016\/04\/21\/opera-browser-has-free-built-in-vpn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}