Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes

Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes by ajdlinux on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @11:18PM (#9615880)

Anyone like to recommend a browser-extension-based VPN tool that's a bit more respectful than Hola and is relatively cheap?

(Of course I run my own VPN server using OpenVPN, but Hola is really convenient when I'm only trying to get an American IP to avoid Australian geoblocking - it's also easy for non-technical friends to use.)

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Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes by joelkesler on Thursday May 28, 2015 @12:23AM (#9616054)

Tunnelbear recently released a chrome plugin for their VPN service. I hear good things about it. (I personally use the application on my Mac)

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Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes by DonGateley on Thursday May 28, 2015 @02:59AM (#9616461)

Tunnlebear makes no claims relative to logging its users activities or about its responsiveness to requests for them. Beware.

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Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes by svintus on Thursday May 28, 2015 @08:47AM (#9617738)

We have a pretty clear and accessible privacy policy that addresses these issues in detail https://www.tunnelbear.com/privacy-policy/ TL;DR: no logging

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Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes by DonGateley on Thursday May 28, 2015 @03:49PM (#9620677)

Thanks for the correction. It's improved considerably from when I was considering it.

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Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes by ultramancool on Thursday May 28, 2015 @10:53AM (#9618511)

This applies to any VPN service. They'll all fall to the legal demand to log, for a specific user at least, sooner or later.

If you want anonymity, a VPN service is not the way to go.

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Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes by addandsubtract on Thursday May 28, 2015 @04:18AM (#9616725)

Try https://zenmate.com/

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Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes by hiamnew on Thursday May 28, 2015 @02:59AM (#9616464)

Just use Tor Browser, it's "extract and launch".

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Re:Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes by ajdlinux on Thursday May 28, 2015 @07:15AM (#9617280)

Tor Browser is great, but I'm not going to use it for watching video, which is all I ever use a VPN to do...

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