I heard it uses your computer a tor “exit node”. Meaning if someone who is doing a very illegal thing (searching for child porn, hacking whatever) and they have YOUR IP randomly assigned to them, its pretty much inditiguashble to law enforcement that YOU weren’t the one doing these illegal things.
I realized this first hand when I went to do a google search and google blocked me and made me enter a captcha. It said that I entered way too many search requests at once or something and I was violating their TOS. I thought that was odd since I haven’t done a search in several hours. Then bingo, realized I had just installed the hola desktop app. Who knows what some fucker half way around the world was using my IP for.
Anyways, I uninstalled the desktop app (with revo uninstaller to make sure EVERYTHING is gone) and chrome extension and you should too.
“When a user installs Hola, he becomes a VPN endpoint, and other users of the Hola network may exit through his internet connection and take on his IP”
What if OP gets in trouble for what someone was using his IP for, explains that he was using Hola, and then the feds find zero trace of Hola on his computer due to Revo Uninstaller.
I don’t know. If you do a search for hola tor exit node there’s a few hits. Plus what happened me to tonight kinda confirms it for me. Unless something else wonkey caused it.
Because I wasn’t connected to a Proxy IP. I was connected to my own. Meaning Hola was sharing it out to someone else who was putting in a lot of searches.
The point of connecting to a VPN provider is to connect all of your web traffic to their servers so it comes from a different location; if you’re connected to Hola and it’s still showing your IP for traffic, then you have some tightening of your security to do.
Holas desktop program was running but I didnt have it connected to a proxy at the time. So it shouldn’t be doing anything at that point. Yet it was still seemingly sharing out my IP.