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Opera closes service for compressing Opera Max traffic





In 2014, Opera Software in its blog on Habré announced the creation of a new service for compressing traffic. This service, called Opera Max, was intended to save on navigation from mobile devices. After the service announcement, the company released the corresponding Android application.



Recently it became known that the service is closing. The application itself has already been removed from the Google Play catalog, although it can also be downloaded from third-party resources and installed as an APK file. The last major update of the utility came out in May of this year. Since August 2017, the company has no plans to release new versions anymore.



In the future (so far the exact date is unknown), Opera will completely stop the service. So far, the installed Opera Max application is functioning, but it is not clear how much longer the service will be supported by the company. Opera representatives said the project is closing to focus on other projects and tasks. In addition, the company management considered that Opera Max is too different from other products of the company service, which, moreover, duplicates the functions of “turbo mode” in browsers opera.

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Opera Max application for Android allowed to compress traffic not only in the browser, but also for all applications on the user device. For this, a VPN connection was raised, through which all unencrypted connections went. According to the company, this allowed saving up to 50% of traffic. Not only text and pictures, but also video were compressed.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/357840/



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