UNINSTALL ANCHORFREE HOTSPOT SHIELD PLUS
For Firefox, AdBlock Plus and NoScript work perfectly to disable the ads and the bandwidth limit, although in NoScript make sure you don’t allow. AdGuard, AdBlock or AdBlock Plus work just fine in Google Chrome. If you are running Chrome or Firefox there’s a wealth of ad or script blocking extensions, most of them will work for this purpose. And that method is to simply run an ad blocker extension. The great thing about getting rid of the Hotspot Shield ads and bypassing the bandwidth limit is you can kill two birds with one stone because both are removed together by the same method. An old trick to block the ads using the Windows HOSTS file doesn’t work these days. This not only looks unsightly but depending on your connection speed and hardware can also slow down the loading and displaying of pages. Probably the most annoying thing about using the free version of Hotspot Shield is the injection of Anchorfree’s ad banner into the top of your browser window.
Ironically it’s actually far easier to bypass the bandwidth limit block now that it used to be and we were quite surprised it was so easy. Old methods to unblock this limit used to include resetting the network adapter MAC Address, but this no longer works.
UNINSTALL ANCHORFREE HOTSPOT SHIELD UPGRADE
Major streaming sites like Hulu or Netflix are forbidden and you must upgrade to use them. It is also ad supported so every HTTP page you visit will have an inserted banner at the top of the page. Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan and UK VPNs are not available.
Firstly it only allows you to access its US based VPN so you can only have a US IP address. There are however, restrictions to using Hotspot Shield Free. One of the most used VPN services for several years has been Hotspot Shield by AnchorFree because it offers a free version to its paid Elite subscription that gives you many advantages of a VPN but at no cost. The popular way to circumvent these restrictions is to use a VPN or proxy service that fools the website you are trying to access into thinking you are from a different country than you actually are. Several countries also block access to adult, political and popular file sharing sites like Kickass and ThePirateBay to stop you getting access to pirated content. Another common form of internet restriction these days is when you watch movies or television online, these are often geo restricted and can only be viewed from the country hosting the content. Several countries are now actively introducing forms of internet censorship by blocking access to social networks like Facebook and Twitter.