Hola Better Internet (1 Viewer)

[Buckrake]

Thanks, I'll give it a go later.

 

[hugh]

When I try and set up Hola on my ipad it doesn't give the option of Ireland as the country I want to pretend to be surfing from. Is this just because I am currently in Ireland and hence there is no reason why I would want to do that? I.e. If I access it from Spain tomorrow it will give me Ireland as an option?

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

When I try and set up Hola on my ipad it doesn't give the option of Ireland as the country I want to pretend to be surfing from. Is this just because I am currently in Ireland and hence there is no reason why I would want to do that? I.e. If I access it from Spain tomorrow it will give me Ireland as an option?

I'm guessing 'yes'

I don't see America as an option. But maybe it is racist

 

[billygannon]

Thanks Thumped! Needed this thread - now I can watch all those military parades and royalist documentaries that are exclusive to UK viewers.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Thanks Thumped! Needed this thread - now I can watch all those military parades and royalist documentaries that are exclusive to UK viewers.

I hope you had a glorious 12th

 

[pete]

"As in most cases when something is free, you are usually the product."

Hola's 9.7 million customers mostly use the company's service and browser plugin as a way to bypass Netflix geolocation restrictions, allowing them to stream Netflix content in markets Netflix hasn't officially launched in yet.

But these customers apparently weren't told their connections would be used as exit nodes to fuel a paid anonymity service owned by Hola dubbed Luminati, which has marketed itself as a "larger, faster and more anonymous" version of Tor.

This fact wasn't widely known until recently, when 8chan realized users of both services were being used to power a massive spam assault on the website. 8Chan founder Frederick Brennan in a note to users calls the VPN the "most unethical VPN I've ever seen," and explains how it's notably different from Tor:

Free VPN Service Hola Selling User Bandwidth For Shenanigans | DSLReports, ISP Information

 

[Lili Marlene]

What do you use to watch region-restricted streaming @pete?

 

[pete]

What do you use to watch region-restricted streaming @pete?

I don't.