Source: Popular Chrome extension Hola sold users’ bandwidth for botnets | The Verge
Their website is still online but if you click on the button “Get Hola, it’s free”, you will notice that it has been removed from chrome store. Link: http://hola.org/
EDIT: looks like they replaced their VPN plugin with another extension… lol…
Is there any good alternatives out there?
Not just that… http://adios-hola.org/
Free VPN you say, too good to be true? It probably is and was.
Once I uninstalled Hola TWC stopped throttling me for what was apparently no reason at the time. Also pretty sure it was related to some nasty malware that kept cropping up in Chrome.
How will I buy cheap vidya on Nuuvem now?
free one year vpn from streganos:
https://www.steganos.com/specials/?m=pcformatpl0515&p=sos
This may be a dumb question but do all vpns allow you to switch between countries for services you already pay like netfilx and stuff along those lines?
How about a SmartVPN service? Anyone tried it?
MediaHint is now offering a free month of service for all users affected by the Hola Botnet debacle. See the post here: MediaHint Helps Hola Users Switch - For FREE - Media Hint Support Media Hint Support
Shit… a friend that I normally trust recommended this so i can watch a show she recommended on NL netflix (I’m in the USA) that’s not on the USA Netflix and I removed it 10 mins later becuase another friend really quickly said it steals your B/W and I did it according to http://adios-hola.org/ but I did not have anything in control panel but I had the firewall entries and registry entries… am I safe?
I really don’t get it. I use hola because it is a free alternative to changing your DNS every day or paying for a VPN if you’re just going to use it once or twice every few months anyway.
Anyone should know that almost nothing is ever free (and if it is, your usage is the payment). When i read about it the first time it just confirmed that for me.
I switched back from chrome to firefox some time ago and had hola installed on my chrome so i can use it mostly just for netflix.
When checking http://adios-hola.org/ it just says i’m an exit node, even if hola is turned on. And when using my regular browser it tells me i’m safe.
It IS bad and evil that they are doing all that basically without the users knowledge but giving you the opportunity of comfortably avoiding geo-blocking is still a good thing! You can always set up a different browser setup with hola just to watch netflix.
As it goes for the VPN usage with hola: Just don’t do it! when it comes to protecting your privacy using a paid service seems to be a good way
What would we do without Hotwheels?..
DNSThingy is a custom firmware for a repurposed Asus router that allows you to localize various devices in your house with DNS, as well as blocking ads before they hit your router.
If you use a free VPN, proxy, etc you’re a fucktard.
Tom’s Hardware just posted a pretty good list of VPNs.
Just remember that if a VPN is free, it’s probably a scam.
ZenMate, they’re available on every platform.
Check out their manifesto
They don’t have as many countries as Hola though 
Pia is good and cheap
Does anyone else think that a distributed vpn is actually a brilliant solution to internet anonymity? Hola may have been using people as random exit nodes (they don’t seem sure), but who cares? I want my BBC back, and if that means letting people in Australia watch Netflix over my connection for a bit, I think I’m ok with that.
Is some perv is downloading illegal stuff, that sucks, but it’s pretty unlikely that’s happening too often.
Depends where the vpn provider has servers located. Most have them available in multiple countries, so yes