Are free users still able to use vpn and manually select any country?

i heard rumours that free users arent allowed to do this anymore… it just auto connects you to a random one?

In desktop Opera at least, the free, built-in VPN still allowed you to select a region. You can’t pick specific countries though. But, you couldn’t before anyway. As in, nothing has changed for the free, built-in VPN that I see.

As alternative, you can use a VPN wrapper for a proxy (not sure which one, though).

There’s a proxy client specifically for Opera’s proxy:

Run the proxy with the chosen country, and configure the VPN wrapper to use that proxy. Change the proxy country by killing the proxy process then rerun it with a different country setting.

Note: the VPN wrapper must be able to automatically reconnect to the proxy if the connection is broken.

do I have to do anything to use the Opera VPN or is it automatically in place…

You have cybergost extension free,is fast