[PSA] Hola is not safe and should not be trusted, use an alternative proxy or VPN

Are you 100 per cent sure on this, and could I please have some more info if possible?

Yeah, it is, and I respect you for your good intentions, but the Hola → arrest for child porn thing is a bit of an overreaction, kinda like if you don’t grow it yourself → it’s poison! imo…

Same, did you manually edit the .pac to support yahoo screen? :slight_smile:

I really don’t follow, and not answering my question doesn’t help make your point clearer. Which link were you calling ridiculous?

I know it’s a big stretch and very unlikely, but there is no justifiable reason to risk something a tenth as extreme as that when alternative VPNs are so readily available.

I thought I was answering your question, I meant the last link in your post, “exit nodes can get you arrested”, about Hola being P2P VPN, just like Tor. That’s why I said “Yeah, it is”…

Tor has a very poor (unwarranted) reputation as being used by pariahs for illegal activities, but Hola doesn’t. No law enforcement agency in their right mind would jump from “you use this very popular browser extension to watch shows” to “you use this very popular browser extension for kiddie porn, huh?”. But we can never count on rational thinking when it comes to law enforcement, I suppose…

Oh, I think I misread something at some point, I see what you mean now. But just because more Tor users will be downloading child porn than will Hola users doesn’t mean there isn’t a possibility for someone using Hola to do so. And if they’re using Hola connected to your network as an exit node, it’s your network that the server sees downloading it, and your network that will be blamed for accessing this illegal content. They wouldn’t attribute using Hola to accessing child porn, they would just see the server logs showing your network accessed child porn

Again, this is an extreme example, but that doesn’t make it impossible. There is no reason to expose yourself to this risk, despite it being slim.