#Hotspot shield premium free

Perhaps that's true IF you can manage to avoid the pop-up that keeps asking you to allow tracking and data sharing to keep the app 'free'. HSS insists it's entirely private, no data sharing etc. I've been trying for weeks to get support and info out of them, but it's a nightmare they'll answer some questions but not others, answer half a question, reply with request for info already sent… a lengthy, unproductive and very boring process. I also pay for Dashlane Premium (but it's not cheap!) and I've had several issues with Hotspotshield.

I've been asking myself similar questions. If you have $8 to spend on a VPN every month id advise you to look elsewhere. It is based in the USA (bad), their apps leak DNS addresses (bad), they mislead people with marketing jargon about what a VPN actually can achieve (bad), they claim things about their product that are verifiable untrue (bad), they do not perform regular audits (bad), they are not open source (bad), and they mislead about the number of servers they actually have (bad). Both their privacy policies are shocking to say the least. it has since been passed around to other companies and now hotspot shield belongs to a company named 'Pango', that in turns belongs to a parent company named 'Aura'. It was developed initially by a company called anchorfree whos owner was heavily invested in data mining and the company has a history of selling user data. not that it affects them as i said they are happy making money off your data. that is what hotspot shield is known for.Īnyone who bothers to do minimum vpn research will take their money elsewhere.

#Hotspot shield premium free

instead, most people use their free tier and get milked for their privacy data. I sincerly doubt many people actually buy their overpriced premium package.