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Is Opera Browser safe? | Secure private browser

Opera is a secure browser that protects your online privacy.
With 30 years of experience building safe and secure browsers, we understand that privacy is not just a feature – it’s a right.

As a European company, we adhere to the world’s strictest privacy regulations, regardless of where you are in the world. Opera also comes with native tools to enhance your privacy and security.

When you install any Opera browser, you are essentially anonymous to us.
You can choose to share some data with us that we use to improve and monetize our free browsers. When you choose to do that, your data is safely stored in Europe.

Opera is headquartered and registered in Oslo, Norway.
Our browsers are built in our European Research & Development Centers in Poland and Sweden.

Opera is part of the open-source Chromium ecosystem, benefitting from its robust security infrastructure, with additional security-enhancing services.

Opera’s browsers come with powerful privacy-enhancing features built in.

Opera's Ad Blocker and tracking protection keep your browsing distraction-free and prevent trackers from following you around the web.

Opera’s Free VPN and VPN Pro encrypt your connection and disguise your IP and location. No registration or third-party extensions required.

Opera’s VPN service has been independently audited by

and

to ensure your data is never collected and your browsing is secure.

Our security team applies industry best practices and uses robust internal checks to ensure our products remain secure.

Our core security team is responsible for maintaining our security infrastructure, performing security reviews of new products and features, and ensuring that Opera complies with strict security standards to keep you safe online.

Security is embedded into our product development process. Each of our product teams has a designated Security Champion who advocates for security at every stage, ensuring our products are secure by design.

We adhere to the security recommendations of the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP), implementing best practices such as secure coding, penetration testing, and security reviews. We also perform annual internal audits to ensure our security measures are up to date and continuously improved.

• Country

  Checking which country you are in helps personalize content for you, such as language, news, and speed dials.



• Opera Newsfeed Articles

  Checking which articles you read in Opera’s built-in news feed helps show you more relevant articles and ads.



• Website categories

  Checking the categories of sites you visit (e.g. News, Sports, Lifestyle, etc.) helps show you relevant ads.



• Usage statistics

  Checking which features get used the most and how you configure your browser helps us to continue improving the browser.



• Crash analytics

  Gathering information about crashes (such as system information, time and date, browser configuration) helps us understand what happened and how to fix it.

• We do not collect your exact location

  We don’t care where you are, where you have been, or where you are going.



• We do not collect your browsing history

  The exact websites you visit and your browsing activity is your own business.



• We do not collect any content you read, watch, or listen to

  We don’t care what you do on the web. We love it if you do it in our browser though.



• We do not collect any information you type on the web

  Emails, social media posts, searches, notes, poems, novels, etc. All these things are between you and the web.



• We do not collect VPN data

  When you browse using Opera’s Free VPN or device-wide VPN Pro, we neither collect nor store any data whatsoever. Our no-log policy has been independently audited by Deloitte.

To provide infrastructure components (e.g. our VPN), we also maintain servers in the USA and in Singapore. These servers are not used to store browser data.

When you connect to websites through a secure browser VPN (virtual private network) server, your browsing data is encrypted and your public IP address changes to a virtual IP address. To enable Opera's free built-in VPN service:

1. Go to Settings (Alt+P) Advanced > Privacy & Security.
2. Under VPN, click Enable VPN.
3. A built-in VPN badge will appear at the left end of your address and search bar. Click the badge and toggle your web browser VPN on or off.

Opera's Ad blocker makes websites load faster and look cleaner by blocking ad scripts. It also includes tracking protection and stops cryptocurrency mining scripts for a secure browser. To enable these security features:

1. Go to Settings (Alt+P)
2. Under Privacy protection, toggle on Block ads and surf the web up to three times faster.
3. Below that, toggle on Block trackers.

Both of these security features can also be turned on or off from the Easy Setup menu in the top-right corner of your web browser (under the X).

Cryptojacking is when someone hijacks your computer and runs scripts to mine cryptocurrency. To stop cryptocurrency mining from happening on your computer:

1. Go to Settings (Alt+P)
2. Under Privacy protection, click Manage Lists.
3. Click NoCoin (Cryptocurrency Mining Protection) to enable this security feature.

Opera browser site settings let you customize your internet browser's privacy features and browser security. To set your privacy and security controls:

1. Go to Settings (Alt+P) Advanced > Privacy & Security.
2. Under Privacy and security, click Site settings.

There you can adjust all of your browser web site permissions and security features - like who can access your camera, microphone, location, and data. Manage cookies, choose which sites can play sounds or show images, and adjust many other details concerning what websites can do, for a secure browser.

Private browsers are secure browsers. When you use a private web browser window, your internet history and activity data is removed as soon as you close all private windows. You can open a private window with a keyboard shortcut, or through the menu.

1. On Windows or Linux: Ctrl+Shift+N or O Menu > New private window.
2. On Mac: ⌘+Shift+N or File > New Private Window.

When all private windows are closed, Opera will remove the associated browsing history, cache items, and cookies. Because of this, private tabs or windows cannot be recovered from the history or tab menus.

Opera’s default browser search engine is Google, but you can change it or add private search engines like DuckDuckGo. To change, manage, or add search engines:

1. Go to Settings (Alt+P).
2. Under Search engine, select your preferred search engine from the dropdown menu or click Manage search engines.

Secure browsers use passwords. You can choose whether Opera saves your passwords for auto sign-in, as well as edit or remove them. To adjust the password manager settings:

1. Go to Settings (Alt+P) Advanced > Privacy & Security.
2. Under Autofill, select Passwords.

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