Buy a VPN service and you’ll probably expect access to some carefully designed network of managed servers, smartly linked via highly secure protocols to prevent unauthorised access to your traffic.
Hola isn’t like that at all.
The Israeli company describes its offering as a “community powered (Peer-to-Peer) VPN” which routes your traffic through other user’s computers, rather than the usual proxy servers. In theory this can improve anonymity and make it more difficult for Hola to be detected and blocked, although sites like Netflix often manage this anyway.
- Want to try Hola? Check out the website here
The service is entirely free for non-commercial use, at least, with no bandwidth or data caps.
One obvious concern is that although you get to use the bandwidth of other Hola nodes, they can also access yours. But Hola says this isn’t as bad as it sounds, because resources are only used when your computer is idle, and the average daily traffic is “less than a 20 second YouTube clip”.
What’s more worrying is that if you’re the final node for another Hola user who’s hacking, sending spam or downloading something illegal, your IP address may be recorded as the offender.
You can get around this by upgrading …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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