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Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes

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Re: Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes

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Tunnelbear recently released a chrome plugin for their VPN service. I hear good things about it. (I personally use the application on my Mac)

Tunnlebear makes no claims relative to logging its users activities or about its responsiveness to requests for them. Beware.

This applies to any VPN service. They'll all fall to the legal demand to log, for a specific user at least, sooner or later.

If you want anonymity, a VPN service is not the way to go.

Re: Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes

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Hola explicitly say this is why they're able to offer the service for free http://hola.org/faq#in_how_is_free dchuk beat me to it!

Yes, now it says so. Didn't do that earlier :-)

actually it did.

From the archive link provided by 8chan

Hola's goal is to make the internet faster and fully accessible to everyone. Install Hola on your PC, phone or tablet to make your internet faster, more open and more anonymous. Hola lets you have unlimited access to information that is otherwise not available in your geography while protecting your online privacy. It also lets you stream videos faster than ever before. Hola is a collaborative internet -- it works by sharing the idle resources of its users for the benefit of all.

The new version talks about luminati.

Re: Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes

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What happens when an asteroid falls on your head? So far as I have been able to discover, the number of times your scenario has occurred in real life could be counted on one hand.

You should become a tor exit node and look at the traffic. It will shock the fuck out of all your libertarian thinking.

I'm sure people do all kinds of things. My question is, do the people running exit nodes actually get in legal trouble for traffic that happens to transit their routers? It seems to be an accepted bit of folk wisdom that they do, but I cannot find many actual, documented cases where it has actually happened. This leaves me wondering whether the widely-assumed legal risk is real or just an urban legend.

Re: Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes

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So are you saying SJWs have something to do with the gamergate thing?

God how I do love that acronym. As soon as I see it I know to ignore anything the person using it says. It's like a giant flashing fuckwit sign.

The you must ignore a lot of the self proclaiming social justice warriors.

Re: Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes

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If anyone cares for their proxy links, here are they: http://milankragujevic.com/uploads/hola/?ref=hackernews And the blog post: http://milankragujevic.com/post.php?id=72&ref=hackernews&cid...

I had also broken down the way this works a long while ago and found they have a lot more proxies than this. In some cases they just have a digitalocean VPS running somewhere to help beef up the network. It was only recently that they started requiring the user auth for the proxy access, earlier it was a free for all without any auth at all. Now they have the option to track which accounts are causing traffic on thei…

Yes, you can enumerate the number of proxies from 1 to 999 with a while(true) loop. However I just used their own api for this.

Re: Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes

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For technically inclined people, setting up your own SOCKS proxy is the simplest method possible. 1. Get a cheap server (ex: DigitalOcean $5/month) in the city/country you want to connect through. 2. Add these 2 lines to /etc/ssh/sshd_config: AllowTcpForwarding yes GatewayPorts yes 3. Restart sshd (service ssh restart), or restart the server. 4. Connect to the server setting a dynamic port forward. On linux or Mac, t…

As far as I know, that leads to terrible performance.

It actually leads to much better performance than using someone else's home connection. Any VPN or proxy will have some performance penalty associated with it.

Re: Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes

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Anyone have VPN recommendations?

For technically inclined people, setting up your own SOCKS proxy is the simplest method possible. 1. Get a cheap server (ex: DigitalOcean $5/month) in the city/country you want to connect through. 2. Add these 2 lines to /etc/ssh/sshd_config: AllowTcpForwarding yes GatewayPorts yes 3. Restart sshd (service ssh restart), or restart the server. 4. Connect to the server setting a dynamic port forward. On linux or Mac, t…

A few extra things to add:

1) If you want everything, UDP data, non-SOCKS supporting apps, etc to go through, you're better off configuring an OpenVPN server. It takes some extra effort, but this allows it to work easily on mobile platforms and stuff too.

2) If you want to use this from a restricted network, use port 443 (for OpenVPN or SSH).

3) If your network is extremely strict, use stunnel to make it look exactly like standard SSL web traffic. I've written a helper app for people who need this on Android, https://github.com/ultramancool/Stunneler

Re: Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes

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Tunnlebear makes no claims relative to logging its users activities or about its responsiveness to requests for them. Beware.

We have a pretty clear and accessible privacy policy that addresses these issues in detail https://www.tunnelbear.com/privacy-policy/ TL;DR: no logging

Thanks for the correction. It's improved considerably from when I was considering it.

Re: Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes

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Yes, now it says so. Didn't do that earlier :-)

actually it did. From the archive link provided by 8chan Hola's goal is to make the internet faster and fully accessible to everyone. Install Hola on your PC, phone or tablet to make your internet faster, more open and more anonymous. Hola lets you have unlimited access to information that is otherwise not available in your geography while protecting your online privacy. It also lets you stream videos faster than eve…

This doesn't at all explain the associated risks in a manner that the average user can understand it. It's presented as a feature, rather than the risk it really is.

Re: Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes

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Anyone knows a better alternative to luminati.io? We've been using it in our company but it feels expensive. I thought this thread may be good place to ask for an alternative.

I work for Scrapinghub which has a Proxy API which may work for you: http://scrapinghub.com/crawlera

Pricing is a lot less and we only use our own IPs.

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