Comments on: Trade Privacy for Ads with Hotspot Shield

By: sonu

sonu — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:31:28 +0000

have been using the Hotspot Shield for a while and really like it. It is a totally free and I am always confident in keeping my private my silf

By: Luis

Luis — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:10:05 +0000

I have been using the Hotspot Shield for a while and really like it. It is a totally free and I am always confident in keeping my private date to myself.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:29:13 +0000

Great – use an ads-based piece of software to block ads. Makes sense. Duh.

By: James D Clarke

James D Clarke — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:44:21 +0000

I’ve been using Hotspot Shield for the last month or so whenever I’m on a public (unsecured) wifi network and it seems to work great.

The top bar/ads don’t load on every single page either, I’d say you see it on about 90% of pages, but it doesn’t affect my Google Apps For Your Domain GMail page, which is nice! Plus Ad Block Plus kills all the ads dead.

By: Janos

Janos — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:08:03 +0000

An additional solution to protect privacy against NebuAd, Phorm and “The Ever Watchful Eye of Google” is obfuscation. The idea is to generate fake queries and browsing activities. Two Firefox add-ons use this approach to protect privacy:
SquiggleSR (that I develop): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5986
TrackMeNot: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3173

By: Alana Post

Alana Post — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:12:11 +0000

What about Torbutton and Firefox? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2275