Ni-hao. Large Chinese tech companies if not already a front company, have ties to party cadres or pay dues etc. They also have to give any requested data to their intel and security apparatus which is vast, digitised and employs many millions. Their internet intel/security personnel alone is estimated to be a million+, probably a few million. China is a modern tech security state. From your email and other logins, they will know your identity and secret browsing, all goes into your single indexed file. Have fun. Zai-jian. :sunglasses:

Heat from me thanks :smiley:

Can anyone recommend any VPN's services which are also easy to use for a novice?

is this any good?

Opera Software were sold to a Chinese consortium earlier in the year.

Folks may want to read the Wiki entry on one of the new owners Quhoo360 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qihoo_360 and decide if they want to funnel all their data through a company who's main revenue stream is from advertising and had a checkered past in terms of software, from submitting someone else's AV engine for testing, and then using a different engine in the software sold to users, or the "360 Secure browser" that is reported as being difficult and confusing to uninstall, and will create pop ups that try and scare users into not using any other browser.

Google "Unotelly" and set that up ! You,ll have everything then and no information leaks either.

No substitute for a paid VPN , They are clearly using customers data to help pay for their servers as in app ads will not cover the cost and more importantly it falls under the legal jurisdiction of Canada which requires Internet services to retain access logs of customers in order to process piracy notices. Meaning VPN users privacy is non existent.Might be ok for watching netflix or iplayer from another country but i would not use it for anything else.

free vpns are bad. don't use this for torrents etc

use touchvpn

Maybe I'm too innocent but I don't get the picture with this 'deal'?

Thanx for the above input everyone. :-)

Looks good to me, nice and easy to use also

if you download it you will see that app itself has ads in it....
also they might not make money now but will introduce "other" chargeable services, look at facebook didn't make a penny in the first 10 years

It's Shakira, what is there to get?

Indeed. Data = money.

Hasn't Opera been sold to the Chinese?

Not many questions being asked on why they're providing this service and app, which will cost them money to run, free of charge.

If you're not paying for a product, the strong likelihood is that you are the product. Wouldn't be at all surprised if they were flogging off users' browsing data.

​nah that's weird, but I just wanted to see if i can post any picture to a hukd post, decided on Shakira, and it hasn't been changed, well done to the folks at hukd for appreciating true beauty

possible virus can hijack your shortcuts so everything has to be through opera: BE AWARE!

awesome

very easy to use and appears to work as expected (default is a netherlands ip). no noticanle lag as a result of using vpn.

previously tried cyberghosts android vpn and struggled to get it to work in any useful way (seem to remember was kicked out of vpn when the screen locked). no issues like that with this so far.

iOS URL https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/opera-free-vpn-unlimited-free/id1080756781?mt=8