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Hotspot Shield is a popular VPN with just enough interesting and unusual features to help it stand out from the crowd. The core service has a sizeable network of 3,200+ servers across 80+ countries and 125 cities. All servers are P2P-friendly, and built-in blocking of malicious and phishing sites helps keep you safe online. Want to try Hotspot Shield Premium? Check out the website here There are apps for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS, a command line app for Linux, and a TV app for Amazon Fire TV or any smart TV with access to Google Play. And if all that still isn’t enough, the support site has guides on manually setting up the service on these and other platforms (routers, too). There’s no WireGuard support, unusually. Hotspot Shield’s apps use the company’s own Hydra protocol, instead, with OpenVPN or IKEv2 available as a backup in some situations. The service supports from 5 to 25 simultaneous connections, depending on your plan. You can either pay by card or PayPal ...

Hotspot Shield is a popular VPN with just enough interesting and unusual features to help it stand out from the crowd. The core service has a sizeable network of 1,800+ servers across 80+ countries and 115 cities. All servers are P2P-friendly, and built-in blocking of malicious and phishing sites helps keep you safe online. Want to try Hotspot Shield Premium? Check out the website here The company's proprietary Catapult Hydra protocol generally delivers great performance. It's not supported by other software or operating systems, though, so you can mostly only use it via the Windows, Mac, Android and iOS apps (there's no manual setup guide for Chromebooks, say). Hotspot Shield works with many different router types (Image credit: Hotspot Shield) Fortunately, there's OpenVPN support for routers, which means you can now get Hotspot Shield working on Asus (AsusWRT/Merlin), DD-WRT, FreshTomato and GL.iNet boxes (the support site has detailed instructions ...