Forget Hola Unblocker (VPN Woes)

Last week, there was a post on lifehacker that laid out the case against Hola Unblocker. Read the article in the link to get an understanding of what’s been going on. Essentially, you are connecting to other peoples’ connections and they are connecting to yours and Hola has been a little less than transparent about how they use your data. You are responsible for anything they do with your connection. As far as VPNs are concerned, the general rule is “If you aren’t paying for a product, you are the product.” Hola Unblocker released a statement yesterday explaining their side of the scandal. They’ve been targeted specifically, but it’s not to say that lesser known VPNs are any safer. If it’s something that concerns you, you should pay for a VPN. See the link below for some other suggestions:

http://ramenwater.com/2012/12/28/bypass-kcsc-warning/

Get Netflix in Korea

So basically my blog is just an outlet for people to download spotflux…but spotflux has its limitations. You can use spotify and hulu with spotflux, but netflix still didn’t work for me at least. So I will do you one better! Netflix is notoriously unavailable in Korea and a few days ago my friend alerted me to a new browser plugin that just came out that allows you to access it. It also has some problems (more on that in a second), but it does work with Netflix. It’s called Hola Unblocker (click on the link). It’s a browser plugin so you don’t have to install anything into your computer. Now the problems. I have a mac and use Firefox primarily. It does not work with Firefox so far as I can tell. I installed silverlight (the program you need to watch netflix movies) but it wasn’t being recognized and kept telling me to download it even though I had it. So I went and downloaded Google Chrome and installed the plugin there and it worked. I’ve never had internet in my apartment in over 3 years, but I think I just got inspired to get it. Anyone know how to get the internet in Korea?