Your web browsing and internet activities can be recorded and sold to third parties, but Opera’s VPN can stop that.
In some parts of the world, it is perfectly legal for your ISP to monitor and record your internet activities and then sell the data to others for whatever they can get for it. Yes, your browsing history is being sold to marketers and advertisers!
It is an invasion of privacy, but you can fight back by switching to Opera as your web browser. Opera is actually built on the same engine as Chrome and although the menus make it look different, there are a lot of similarities underneath. This means Opera is both familiar, yet it also offers something different.
Click here to learn how to download and install Opera.
Private browsing
Opera’s Private browsing mode is like the private browsing mode in Edge and Firefox, and Chrome incognito mode. It increases your privacy by opening a browser window in which you have no history.
Private browsing is like the first time you ever used a browser and before you have visited any websites. There is no history and no cookies, so when you browse the web, sites don’t know who you are.
Click the Opera menu button in the top left corner of the browser window.
Select New private window. Alternatively, right-click the Opera icon in the taskbar and select New private window.
Private browsing is useful not only because websites do not know who you are, but also because when Opera is closed, your browsing history and cookies are erased. You leave no tracks on the computer.
You can take privacy even further with Opera’s free VPN. I’ll explain how that works tomorrow.
I like this tip but could you add details/instructions for Opera Mini settings for iPad please?
I’m confused. You say “Opera’s Private browsing mode is like the private browsing mode in Edge and Firefox, and Chrome incognito mode. It increases your privacy by opening a browser window in which you have no history”.
So if you would use private browsing in Edge and Firefox or Chrome incognito mode your browsing history would not be tracked and/or sold to third parties?
Can I use this on a computer running Vista so that I can read email without having to switch to a Windows 7 laptop for reading email, etc.? Since Microsoft is no longer supporting Vista and I would like to keep on using the Vista laptop for non-internet based programs as well as internet email.
Just downloaded and installed this VPN and the whole OPERA browser. So much faster than EDGE and the VPN thru Opera downloads far faster than Betternet thru any browser, firefox included. Plus you can select your “location” in the Opera VPN whereas with the free version of Betternet you are by default in Switzerland. I chose Germany in Opera and the download speed was not reduced as it was in Betternet. Guess I have found a new VPN. Thanks for this great tip.