I can’t really say anything about Opera and it’s VPN, as only the Opera staff really knows if they do. However I haven’t heard anything negative as of yet.
Just bear in mind that the VPN they provide just covers what you do in the browser. I’m a lazy guy that likes “set and forget” so I run my VPN in the router, with the added advantage that it covers all my devices; smart tvs, computers, phones, iots and so on.
I see, thanks.
Of course I am well aware of that, most of my private stuff that I do goes through the browser. other aplications that I use use end-to-end encryption.
how do you set it on your router, your VPN service?
So what that exit nodes are compromised? As long as you’re on https that doesn’t matter, your traffic still goes through three other relay nodes (which are more likely community driven), it’s almost impossible that you will hit combination of 3 relays and one exit nodes owned by single entity. Tor browser comes with pre-installed ‘https-everywhere’ so whenever possible, you’re on https.
It’s way more secure than vpn, vpn over tor or tor over vpn (it’s like adding extra entry relay) makes no sense.
More info on tor myths:
and why it makes no sense to mix vpn with tor:
Don’t ever believe in no data collection, they claim it as long as feds don’t knock on their door.
Regarding to sharing your locales - it’s all up to you and your preferences. If your os use built-in laptop gps or wifi geolocalization (Win10), than spoofing ip will not change anything. I don’t share anything by default.
I will read, and possibly comment when I get the time. Thanks for the links.
That depends on your router. I got a sturdy old (new) Linksys WRT 1900AC for just 70 Euro, that is known to be easy to flash, and set up for VPN.
[Much to the chagrin of my primary gf, who just bought a spanking new monstrosity of a router for 239 Euros that lacks a lot of the features I got and has much worse output]
Google and see if you an install VPN on your router. Not all routers has that ability.
Like @Mr_Ecks pointed, it’s platform specific. I have TP-Link with openWRT:
that os makes almost all configurations possible with little effort and is hugely reliable. I wouldn’t swap it with any other vendor-supplied software.
That’s the exact same router that I have for the exact same reasons. Flashed it with the vpn service’s firmware, work’s great.
This seems to keep out the amateur hackers, but the government intelligence agencies can get into almost anything. So for them, the best thing is security through obscurity. Just don’t give them a reason to check on you. There is such a vast amount of traffic on a daily basis that they can’t check everything every day. You have to set off a flag somehow for them to check into you. If you are not doing anything wrong you’re safe.
Pudge
Well, we see the experience here @Pudge @Mr_Ecks.
I’m using an old Linksys WRT54… is still excellent. 
Edit: Solved