Hotspot shield launch...do I need it?

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berzin

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I was trying to get a live feed of a cycling race this weekend from RAI in Italy over the internet, and I was told that I needed this...

http://www.hotspotshield.com/

...for the purposes of internet anonymity.

I'm not sure how/why this works, but is this download a good thing to have on my home computer? I did some reading and it seems to offer protection for wireless service while you're in a hotel or on Wifi.

Question is, if I'm surfing on the net will it hide my IP address so no one knows I was on a particular site?

Should I keep it?
 
Hotspot Shield is a VPN service for those who wish to "hide" their traffic at open wireless networks. For open wireless network...depending on the type of web traffic you're doing..much of it can be picked up by someone else using this same open wireless network..they can "sniff" your traffic.

To secure your web use while on open wireless networks..some people turn to connecting to a VPN first and surfing through the tunnel. This encrypts all your traffic.

That's what HSS is...a VPN service. Free. Comes with some light adware...advertisting banners.

It's not really designed to be an anonymous proxy..but it gives you some of those features...as you're coming from an IP address along with a ton of other HSS users.
 
So is there anything I can use to secure my web use while I'm on my regular home PC, since I don't use a wireless connection?
 
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