Hotspot Shield

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hanslak_israeli-firms-now-control-8-major-vpn-companies-activity-7376987188263178241-CWKp The “8 major VPN companies” claim likely aggregates brands under two key players: Kape Technologies (4 major VPNs) and Aura (formerly Pango Group, an Israeli software firm; 4 more

There’s no such thing as a 'perfect' free VPN. Each comes with limitations: Proton doesn’t let you choose your location and blocks P2P traffic. Windscribe and TunnelBear only offer 10GB per month for free. 1VPN is only free for the browser extension. Hotspot Shield and Urban VPN log and sell your da

Yea not uncommon unfortunately I remember a similar controversy might have been Hotspot shield was it? It was the top free VPN at the time people were using it for Netflix and what not while it was quietly highjacking peoples connections for god knows what.

Went to fantastic furniture to buy a mattress the other day. They asked for my name, email, mobile number, address. I refused, just gave my first name. Of course, most of this information is already out there, it's leaked or been sold. When you order something off a small or large retailer, their bu

I would avoid Hotspot Shield. "Our VPN products log: the duration of VPN sessions and the bandwidth consumed. We do this to monitor, support and optimize our VPN services, as well as enforce free app usage limits. the domains that have been accessed by our users, but on an anonymized basis such that

You’d like to think so but actually plenty do. To name a few notable ones that each have millions of users: OperaVPN, Hola, BetterNet, and HotSpot Shield. These are all free or have a free tier, and all sell your data in order to maintain a profit. People just see it’s a VPN and automatically assume

They also already own something like 40% of VPN services worldwide most likely for surveillance purposes: “Kape Technologies, a UK-based company owned by Israeli billionaire Teddy Sagi, is one of the largest VPN conglomerates in the world. Its portfolio includes several major VPN providers: ExpressV

I’d like to refute a couple of things here. “It is physically impossible for them to have any record of sessions” Just because Mullvad or any VPN provider for that matter, doesn’t write to disk and only runs in memory does not make it immune to data collection. Malware can live in memory and data ca

Definitely not worth it. It's way waaayyyy overpriced for a password manager. Considering Bitwarden and Proton pass are around 20$ with current discounts. And apple pass is free. Also the vpn they give you, hotspot shield, has one of the worst track records and privacy policies in the vpn space. The

VPNs can sometimes lower ping by taking a better route to the server, but it’s not guaranteed and it can also worsen it. I’d avoid free VPNs like Hotspot Shield anyway. When it’s free, you’re usually the product, and your data can be monetized. I’ve used Amnezia VPN and I had no issues with it for t