Hotspot Shield: Does an Ad-Supported VPN Really Hide Anything?

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Advertising Age has an interesting piece about a free VPN (Virtual Private Network) service with 5.5 million users that I had never heard of…

Hotspot Shield: Destroyer of Google, Yahoo and NBC?

The title is, of course, an incredibly catchy one. And, its first paragraph goes on to say: what would happen if the identities, geographies and surfing histories of a large number of internet users suddenly became invisible. The implication is that Hotspot Shield hides everything from web entities who want to know about you to serve up advertisement and collect marketing information.

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