Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes
by bifrost on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @07:54PM
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This is basically why you never want to use a proprietary client with any VPN service, you don't know what you're getting into at all. At least with PPtP/L2TP/OpenVPN based services you can use well known clients or OS vendor provided clients that are unlikely to have little goodies like this.
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Never use proprietary clients if possible. Also on the VPN server side, you could investigate the option to create your own VPN server in a few minutes https://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2015/how-to-setup-your-own-pr...
Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes
by voltagex_ on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @09:07PM
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I'm not sure this will get seen but - is there an OpenVPN client for Windows that doesn't suck?
Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes
by imsofuture on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @09:16PM
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Viscosity is pretty good for Macs+Windows.
Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes
by toomuchtodo on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @10:11PM
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Viscosity is phenomenal. Its extremely inexpensive, and makes working with OpenVPN on the client side much less painful.
Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes
by NeutronBoy on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @08:15PM
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Hola explicitly say this is why they're able to offer the service for free http://hola.org/faq#in_how_is_free
dchuk beat me to it!
Yes, now it says so. Didn't do that earlier :-)
Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes
by manghoti on Thursday May 28, 2015 @11:46AM
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actually it did.
From the archive link provided by 8chan
Hola's goal is to make the internet faster and fully accessible to everyone. Install Hola on your PC, phone or tablet to make your internet faster, more open and more anonymous. Hola lets you have unlimited access to information that is otherwise not available in your geography while protecting your online privacy. It also lets you stream videos faster than ever before. Hola is a collaborative internet -- it works by sharing the idle resources of its users for the benefit of all.
The new version talks about luminati.
This doesn't at all explain the associated risks in a manner that the average user can understand it. It's presented as a feature, rather than the risk it really is.