Your privacy remains protected to some or more extent. You can select countries from a dropdown list that contains Australia, Japan, UK, and the US. Pros of Hotspot Shield VPNĪs the builders of Hotspot Shield VPN claim, you can access different websites by pretending you are in a different country. This made me feel the tool is more of a proxy, rather than a complete VPN.

It seems, unlike Spotflux, which creates a virtual network adaptor, Hotspot Shield uses browser extensions. I tried to disable the extension in Firefox – but it said it is necessary for the proper functioning of the program – so I gave it the benefit of doubt. You also get some extensions for Firefox and Chrome, and IE Helpers for the Internet Explorer while installing the software. You can, however, decline the offer by clicking on DECLINE – but you are still left with a changed homepage that the Hotspot Shield selects for you. It also attempts to install Findwide Toolbar. During installation, it changes your home page – on all browsers, especially the Internet Explorer – it opens as soon as you are finished with the installation. The installation on my Windows, took some time as compared to SpotFlux, which is installed in less than a minute. This review of hotspot shield VPN is the result of my experiment with the privacy tool.

Hotspot Shield VPN was mentioned by a reader so I thought of checking it out. So far, the best VPN we found is Spotflux.

We have covered plenty of free VPN software and other privacy tools on The Windows Club.

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