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So, I (used to up until today) use Betternet VPN so that I could access blocked sites in college, but today when I loaded up my laptop I had adverts everywhere. 

I opened Chrome as a guest and they went. So naturally I disabled all extensions and enabled them one by one to find the problem. And to my surprise it was Betternet.

If you look at the reviews in the Chrome Web Store everybody seems to be having the same problem so if you have it installed, uninstall it.

I don't know whether it was intentional or whether they were hacked but until now they seem to have been reputable.

 

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3 minutes ago, kburton97 said:

So, I (used to up until today) use Betternet VPN so that I could access blocked sites in college, but today when I loaded up my laptop I had adverts everywhere. 

I opened Chrome as a guest and they went. So naturally I disabled all extensions and enabled them one by one to find the problem. And to my surprise it was Betternet.

If you look at the reviews in the Chrome Web Store everybody seems to be having the same problem so if you have it installed, uninstall it.

I don't know whether it was intentional or whether they were hacked but until now they seem to have been reputable.

 

Gotta pay for it somehow....

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Just now, OddsCrazyStuff said:

My guess is that one of the apps they work with, is the problem and not directly the service: https://www.betternet.co/how-we-make-money

From what i can see the only people with the problem are the people using the Chrome extension so I don't see how it could be an app that is the problem

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21 minutes ago, kburton97 said:

From what i can see the only people with the problem are the people using the Chrome extension so I don't see how it could be an app that is the problem

Just the app itself couldn't do anything to the browser, of course it doesn't have direct influence on the problem, but an indirect one.

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It's not only BetterNet, I've seen people who have this issue with extensions like Hotspot Shield. lmao we should get Tunnel Bear like Linus said to 

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Why not just set up your own OpenVPN server?

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If you're just using the VPN on the browser why not use Opera's built in VPN? It's actually pretty nice and it's not a plugin, it's baked into the browser so no shenanigans.

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7 hours ago, sazrocks said:

Why not just set up your own OpenVPN server?

 

7 hours ago, KuJoe said:

If you're just using the VPN on the browser why not use Opera's built in VPN? It's actually pretty nice and it's not a plugin, it's baked into the browser so no shenanigans.

I only used it a couple of times when I was in college to get past the blocking of sites. I actually forgot I had it installed until I went through the extensions

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