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Norwegian browser-maker Opera Software has announced a limited public beta of Opera Max – a new app designed to let users get more out of limited data plans. Opera has offered "off-road mode" in its browser for a while now, with the feature promising to reduce the amount of data consumed by the application. Last year turned …

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  1. Captain Scarlet
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    Weird

    Considering in the days of 56k this sort of thing was readily available (Although often at a monthly charge), I am surprised I havent seen more of them.

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    1. Skoorb
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      Yeah. This one sounds a bit like a mobile version of the old google Web Accelerator, which subsequently became mobile only with Google's Data Compression Proxy.

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  2. I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects

    A free app which routes non-encrypted data through Opera’s servers andonly works for non-encrypted traffic.

    What's the betting Opera gets snagged by a secret society in a land of the freeish.

    Not that I believe for one moment they would consider doing what strikes me as what any freedom serv...

    Naaaah; they wouldn't would they?

    Naaah!

    Would they?

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