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Does Opera Turbo not bypass content filtering anymore?

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FlyinPenguin:
I thought Opera Turbo would bypass filtering services because it uses the opera server to retrieve data from websites and sends it back to you, instead of you communicating directly to the website. I know it was popular to run Opera in countries that restricted web traffic because of its ability to get around censorship restrictions.

I a few hundred miles from home with some time to kill and am choosing to kill it at a public library. All of my torrent sites are block >:( None of the online proxies work because they are all blocked. Even the proxies on those lists of daily proxies have been blocked! Oddly enough, Baka hasn't been blocked! 8)

Anyway, using Opera Turbo, I am still getting blocked from these sites. Any idea whats up? Is there some trick I need to do or did they scale the features of Opera Turbo down because of complaints from certain governments?

I would just tether but Verizon frowns on torrents and I can't risk jeopardizing my unlimited data.

per:
Opera turbo will use the turbo proxy, yes, but if the network you are using has a "transparent" proxy it needs to go through that one first.

Also, if you have configured a proxy in the opera settings it will be used.

You can try loading echo.opera.com (or some similar site) to see if opera turbo is actually in use.

If it is, there will be an "X-Forwarded-For" header and the 'remote' IP at the top will be one of the turbo servers when resolved.

It is often also possible to see traces of other 'transparent' proxies in the headers.

Feel free to ask more questions, I sort of wrote the code for the servers for Opera Turbo.. :)

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