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Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes by tombozi on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @09:06PM (#9615482)
I assume they forward the requests to their own servers? In that case there isn't much to reverse engineer without access to their servers. Unless they use some kind of P2P system, which I doubt.
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Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes by signa11 on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @11:46PM (#9615963)
their updated faq says the following

'Hola built a peer to peer overlay network for HTTP, which securely routes the sites you choose through other Hola users' devices and not through expensive servers'.

so it is a p2p system...

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Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes by prawnsalad on Thursday May 28, 2015 @06:13AM (#9617057)
It's a mix of both. Each peer connects to one of their servers which then acts as the middle-man for the traffic between users. The descriptions they use is incredibly incorrect in so many places. Reads like they have some marketing guys with a vague idea on how it works writing it up.
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