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Opera free VPN can now automatically protect you on public Wi-Fi networks

We’ve had a free VPN built into the browser since 2016. It doesn’t ask you for an account, it doesn’t have a bandwidth limit, and it doesn’t cost anything. We did it that way because we believe that you should be in control of the way you see and reach the web. After ten years, some browsers have integrated something similar, albeit in different ways.

Today we’re adding something to the Opera free VPN for desktop: it can automatically turn on when you connect to a public Wi-Fi network, once you’ve switched the setting on. Below we explain how that works, how we got here, and why a browser…

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