Hotspot Shield snags 1 million users overnight, proves privacy can be monetized

Hotspot Shield snags 1 million users overnight, proves privacy can be monetized: "Political unrest quite literally turned Hotspot Shield into an international success story overnight.

During the Egyptian uprisings against deposed president Hosni Mubarak in January and February, AnchorFree's Hotspot Shield software went from 100,000 users in Egypt to over a million over a single 24 hour period. Egyptians found they could use the desktop VPN freeware to obscure their IP addresses and access locally censored services such as Facebook and Twitter.

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I've used this for a couple of years to get around granny filters at local institutions.