VPN for Opera and Opera GX

What Opera’s VPN actually is

Opera itself says its built-in VPN only protects your browsing within Opera, not the whole device. Only the tabs go through it, and instead of a country you choose one of three regions: Europe, the Americas or Asia.

That rules it out when you need a particular country, say a Russian address from abroad or an American one. In VanyaVPN you pick the country yourself, out of 187 countries, and the tunnel takes in the entire system, Discord and messengers included.

Switching it off

1. Find the VPN button

   Look at the left end of the address bar. If there’s a VPN button, Opera is sending tabs through its own server on top of VanyaVPN, and sites see Opera’s address rather than the country you chose.

2. Flip the switch

   Click the button and switch it off in the pop-up. If you don’t see the button, type VPN into the settings search and make sure it’s off there.

3. Check the country

   Open ipinfo.io in Opera. If it shows the same country as Location in the app, your tabs go through VanyaVPN. Any other country means Opera’s server is still in the way.

Opera GX

Opera GX has the same built-in VPN, so treat it the same way. On its own it covers only the browser, while your game launcher and Discord go around it. With VanyaVPN all three share one tunnel.

If pages and videos in GX are slow even with the VPN, open GX Control. When Network Limiter is on, the browser gets exactly the speed set there, and no tunnel will change that.