Tell HN: Opera disabled VPN in Russia with a browser update

[lostmsu]

Russia started banning some VPN services: https://www.reuters.com/technology/russian-consumer-watchdog-bans-vyprvpn-opera-vpn-services-2021-06-17/

The same day Opera removed functionality of VPN for users in Russia. Opera's PR comment: https://tass.com/economy/1304235

[passerby1]

Updates sometimes are bad. Especially destructive ones.