Uninstall Hola Unblocker
If you've installed the popular Hola Unblocker VPN, whether it's to watch country-restricted Netflix shows or listen to Pandora outside the US, you should uninstall it immediately and find a different service.
To begin with, the reason Hola has so many different countries available is because the USERS function as the proxy servers. Which means if you have Hola and somebody in Turkmenistan, China, Namibia, wherever, decides to use a proxy from your country, Hola will connect them to YOUR internet connection to use you as that proxy. Everything they decide to search up or access will appear to be coming from, you guessed it, you. This is default functionality, and to top it off you have to __pay them__ to be exempt from it. Hola also owns a second service, Luminati, that aims to __sell access to Hola's peer-to-peer network to literally anybody who wants it.__
It does get worse but I don't want this to be too long.
More info:
http://adios-hola.org/
**tl;dr Hola Unblocker is a literal botnet, can easily be used to place and run malicious code on your comp, sells your bandwidth to anonymous third parties for 100% profit**
3 Comments • Newest first
This is why America is the best.
i didn't even know you could watch Netflix content from other regions. how do i do this?
wow seriously?
I downloaded hola a loooong time ago while I was overseas because I couldn't access dramafever while on my trips.
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i'm sorta into kdramas now, sigh.
owoooo better uninstall..
thanks for the thread. ^___^
edit: is "Unlimited Free VPN - betternet" from Betternet Technologies Inc a safe alternative?
.. or is it bad too? :c