I'm ditching Hola. What free VPN chrome/firefox plug-in would you recommend?

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I’m ditching hola after reading some harsh criticism. I’m looking for a free VPN plug-in for chrome or firefox.

Difficulty: work computer, so I cant install anything big, just browser plugins. I just want to obscure my IP address and watch foreign netflix.

Thanks.

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Personally I would avoid anything free

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The free ones are logged, incredibly slow, or backdoored.

Paid VPNs are reliable, quick, versatile (different countries), and potentially not logged.

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Remember, if you’re not paying for it, you are most likely the product. If you want free, you’ll be sacrificing something (and usually it’s identity/tracking).

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Nothing that isn’t crap is free. You pay for it one way, or the other (ala Hola).

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Just pay for it if you really need it. If you are really paranoid pay with bitcoin or whatever. I mean you are still going to have to trust the vpn.

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What made you leave hola

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Ad free time works for me. It works via DNS redirection so can be implemented at your device or network level. Only costs a quid a month.

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Maybe use proxies instead? you could setup your own at home too and use that at work (with TOR)

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so what did you end up using?

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Not that it is really my business but why are you using a free VPN on your work computer? I don’t know what you do or who you work for but this could be against a policy or two… Especially if you are attempting to get around a work proxy.

With that said, fine a paid for proxy or VPN. Free add-ons like Hola are too good to be true and as things have been discovered in the past weeks are a mess.

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FYI most of that Hola stuff was not accurate, besides they fixed all vulnerabilities shortly after.

If not Hola I recommend Bright VPN.

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lmao there is a whole army of Nord bots down here. fuck you all I guess. besides, your company is too lazy to maintain a chrome extension for their product so yeah, just a VPN app, not an extension.

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In terms of browser plugins, these links might be what you’re looking for.

http://techapple.net/2014/11/7-best-free-vpns-chrome-7-free-vpn-appsextensions-chrome-oschrome-browsergoogle-chromebooks/

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Thanks, I’ll look into these for my non-work computer.

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I understand, nothing is free, tracking is the ‘payment.’ However, in the reports I read, hola was going far beyond tracking.

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Remember, if you’re not paying for it, you are most likely the product.

I’m ok with that, and presumably so are the billions of people using Reddit, Google, and Instagram.