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Opera Kills Off Its Free Data-Saving App, Opera Max (betanews.com)
Mark Wycislik-Wilson, writing for BetaNews: Opera Max -- the free data-saving and VPN-like tool from the team behind the Opera web browser -- is being killed off. The app has been removed from Google Play with immediate effect, and there will be no more updates. Opera is not really giving a reason for the sudden decision other that the fact that Opera Max had "a substantially different value proposition than our browser products."
"We lost fuckloads of money because our business model relied on it becoming insanely popular, and it wasn't"
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Opera is owned by China and China outlawed all VPNs.
..a value proposition was pointed out in which it no longer makes sense to offer it for free.
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Am I doing this right?
Write VPN software is forbidden for a chinese company!
Probably maybe possibly just because of the main features from Opera Max are integrated directly into their mainline Opera browser on all platforms now? No need for Opera to fragment themselves.
https://www.operavpn.com/
Free is great, but it requires a lot of bandwidth, and servers, to provide this type of service. The money has to come from somewhere, so what do you do? do you insert ads in to the stream you just compressed? and if so, how do you display them? and how do you make sure that you still saved data when you're sending more stuff?
If you aren't inserting ads, then maybe it comes out of your marketing budget, will people pay more for a product that has this feature? (considering google also provides this for free on chrome, I doubt it)
So that leaves selling your customer's information, how much is that worth? and can you provide enough of it that companies can't buy elsewhere to make it worthwhile?
I bet Opera simply couldn't figure out how to make (or at least not lose too much) money on this.
VPN usage is illegal in China, so of course, as a Chinese company, Opera would kill off this service.
I still use Opera Mini though. It's still handy for breaking through stupid filtering proxies in places such as public wifi spots.
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From having *the* best, most advanced browser in the game to becoming just another Chrome skin.
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