Opera and the new generation of browsers

Most people doesn’t have the technical prowess to use a VPN or an ad-blocker. Many don’t take care of their privacy, but a new generation of browsers can do for them.

First we had the Incognito mode on browsers, and it was widely accepted. Then we started to see ad-blockers integrated on several browsers (Safari on iOS and Brave on Android).

Now we’re seeing a browser with a free, integrated VPN, something that again solves a problem most people wouldn’t solve by themselves.

This is the way that tiny but important revolutions happen to be. Creators make them seamless, almost invisible. And that’s the reason most people accept them: they don’t impose a change. They suggest it.

We are witnessing the birth of the new generation of browsers. A generation that will help us to protect a privacy we weren’t capable of protecting by ourselves.

Javier Pastor is a technology journalist that has been writing about tech since 1999. He started writing for PC Actual in Spain, the leading printed magazine in the country, and in 2006 started to write online. First as the Chief Editor for The Inquirer ES, and after that for MuyComputer until 2013. That year he became senior editor at Xataka, the leading tech news website in Spanish with over 5M uniques/month (Aug'15, comScore). Xataka is part of Weblogs SL, a blog network that gets over 40M uniques/month and that has a wide catalog of publications in Spanish. The Unshut is his new venture and allows him to express his opinions and thoughts on everything touched by technology, and follows what he has been doing at Incognitosis, his personal blog, since 2005.