In a press release published yesterday (8/6/2009), Anchorfree has announced that their free VPN service, Hotspot Shield, is now serving more than 7.5 million monthly users across the globe, averaging almost 30 million page views per day. Other interesting figures show that Hotspot Shield currently brings 800,000 users per month onto YouTube in regions where it is blocked, and about 500,000 users per month globally onto Facebook.
“Hotspot Shield has perhaps become the biggest disruptor of censorship in the world, enabling anyone to access the Web freely and securely,” said AnchorFree Founder and CEO David Gorodyansky. “Many of our users are in countries where individual efforts to thwart governmental censorship online have recently been thrown into the spotlight. We are playing an important role in opening the Web and allowing people to access sites like Twitter and Facebook in order to share their stories with the world.”
Hotspot Shield is a free ad-supported virtual private network (VPN) that guarantees its users complete privacy and security online. Available on desktop computers, laptops and iPhones, it establishes a secure tunnel between a user’s computer and Internet connection, encrypting entire Web sessions to keep IP addresses protected and the user anonymous. As a result, third party Web sites and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) cannot block or censor Internet content, and therefore cannot track any information exchanged by the individual online.
AnchorFree is a privately held company with more than $11 million in financing and is based in Sunnyvale, California. For more information or to download Hotspot Shield, please visit www.anchorfree.com.
[Via Live-PR.com] [Review Hotspot Shield on Hide-IP-Tools.com]
