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Hotspot Shield

Who runs Hotspot Shield, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest consumer VPN alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
CyberGhost VPN

Measured from Hotspot Shield’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Hotspot Shield

Hotspot Shield hotspotshield.com

Hotspot Shield is the leading VPN for online security and verified as #1 VPN for speed by experts. Download VPN for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS & more.

Wikidata: VPN service

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Hotspot Shield tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

tracker that follows visitors

8 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
EU company
1 tool

  • Session recording

    Records clicks, scrolling and typing so the company can replay visits.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Hotspot Shield

Fewer trackers than Hotspot ShieldNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Hotspot Shield match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Hotspot Shield adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 10 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,222
Vector
384-d
Query
209 ms

Built with

CMS
Analytics
  • Hotjar page source: static.hotjar.com
Web servers
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:emsd1.com include:sendgrid.net…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=oalLY8bt92VSitddLZlnZamGNNXDMKRKX/6knUs…
  • Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: gOvAmre1rTgZbLhye3mGWBi81EWREnU1kqthGfP3Xtg
  • Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=m6ai23d8n46or5hrobe5641e0fxgf1