Hola VPN sells user's bandwidth, founder confirms


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The operator of 8chan says the bandwidth of millions of Hola users is being sold for reuse, with some of it even being used to attack his site. Speaking with TorrentFreak, Hola founder Ofer Vilenski says that users' idle resources are indeed utilized for commercial sale, but that has been the agreement all along.
 
Faced with increasing local website censorship and Internet services that restrict access depending on where a user is based, more and more people are turning to specialist services designed to overcome such limitations.
 
With prices plummeting to just a few dollars a month in recent years, VPNs are now within the budgets of most people. However, there are always those who prefer to get such services for free, without giving much consideration to how that might be economically viable.
 
One of the most popular free VPN/geo-unblocking solutions on the planet is operated by Israel-based Hola. It can be added to most popular browsers in seconds and has an impressive seven million users on Chrome alone. Overall the company boasts 46 million users of its service.

 

https://torrentfreak.com/hola-vpn-sells-users-bandwidth-150528/

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Any recommendations to replace Hola on Android? Preferably free, as I don't need much from it. Only to launch Spotify and Pandora once a week.

 

Hotspot Shield, I believe that does the same thing. I've used it.

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Any recommendations to replace Hola on Android? Preferably free, as I don't need much from it. Only to launch Spotify and Pandora once a week.

 

I use ZenMate (I used it before Hola, and I've gone back to it). Not sure if their Android version is out yet though.

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Hotspot Shield, I believe that does the same thing. I've used it.

 

It is a free VPN like Hola, but in my experience, it's clunky, slow, and contains adware to inject ads into your browser(s). Not much better than Hola really.

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I use ZenMate (I used it before Hola, and I've gone back to it). Not sure if their Android version is out yet though.
 

 

It is a free VPN like Hola, but in my experience, it's clunky, slow, and contains adware to inject ads into your browser(s). Not much better than Hola really.

 

Try ZenMate.

 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zenmate.android&hl=en

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I'm really surprised people aren't making a much bigger issue of this...

 

Doesn't do it when you actually use it to stream media, and when you don't you just disable it anyway. no other service works as well as it anyway.

 

I use Unblock-us anyway so I don't go through any VPN's, for the few things that don't work with it, I activate Hola. 

Thanks, but I don't use my phone for much internet use. I looked up the PC browser version, which doesn't install on my browser, which was the

main reason why I didn't use Hola much either. I don't want to open up a different browser I rarely use just to watch geo-blocked content.

 

hmmm, you can install hola on pretty much any browser except ie though. 

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I pay 5$ or whatever it is for media hint.  Can use it on my Smart TV so even it has access to US netflix.

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don't have it installed anymore anyways. I found hola unreliable for live streaming when i tried it in the past. unblock-us/unotelly and cheap vps does everything for me well.

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