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5 stars
Version: Hide My IP 1.7.2409
"Very Good!!! Really Hides My IP ADD!!!"
Pros: Good does what it's says. Cheked it with whatismyip site and my IP ADD is change. Very Good. And it works with Different Browser.Well Done to the aurhor!!! Thanks!
Cons: It Kindda slow my connection just by a little bit. Sometimes its noticeable and sometimes its not. I agree to the other reviewer just hope also the same that it's free.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Hide My IP 1.6
Pros: A few months back I tried Hide My IP 1.0 and it was very buggy. Like others said good luck finding a US IP. I switched to Hide IP Platinum and it was worse!
Finally I saw they had updated to 1.6 and even have 1.7 on their web site. It now runs great! Fixed all the bugs and best of all the ability to check "Require US IP" is just awesome. Hide My IP is simple the best out there.
Its easy to use nature, occasionally I still find myself having to "Change IP" when the connection gets slowed down. It would be nice if it did this automatically or there was a hot key.
Cons: Despite its easy to use nature, occationally I still find myself having to "Change IP" when the connection gets slowed down. It would be nice if it did this automattiiclly or there was a hot key.
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7 out of 9 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: Hide My IP 1.9
"They kept my money and gave me nothing!"
Cons: Why is this? Do you expect me to just give away $8.95? Your advice to date has been poor and without thought and now you expect me to pay for your mistakes? I believe I will get my money back. This is just one more instance in which you are wrong.
I'm so angry, if I could, I'd sue you just for the time I've wasted sending emails and looking for non-existent programs you claimed were available.
If you don't return the rest of my money within the next week I'm going to file an "item dispute" with PayPal and let them take over some of the time consuming aspects of returning what is rightfully mine. I've researched and found I have 48 days from the payment to file, although I'm going to file earlier; on the 7th of July.
If I can't get any satisfaction from PayPal's item dispute, which I don't forsee, then I'll go to the forums were Hide my IP might seem to be to someone's advantage, and post my experiences and explain how prospective customers might just be throwing their money away by using Hide my IP's services.
All I have to do is draft it once and post on every poker and gambling forum known on the internet. I'll post that I felt my questions were being answered by someone oblivious to their company's products in an extemporaneous manner. I'll be sure to mention I was "stonewalled" for the last 10 days ending in a partial refund for services I wasn't able to use for one minute.
I could post every email I've sent and received and let others judge how I was treated.
Again I've spent a lot of my time on an email I should never have had to write. It's a shame I put so much effort into something for a reader who'll skim it at best and not really take the time to comprehend, as many times before.
Sincerely,
Lisa Hutchinson
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: Hide My IP 1.0.2
"sucks, doesn't work, stay away!!"
Pros: all I want to do is to send email from a web based email account without revealing my true IP address. having a small application to do this would be convenient. supposedly this is a simple thing to do, why can't they do it right?
Cons: but this application sucks!! the 3 day trial period was a mediocre experience, and I thought that paying $25 would give me access to more servers, US based IPs, and faster speed. I was soooo wrong, after paying its just more of the same bad slow stuff.
good luck trying to find a US based IP, I have never gotten one. the IP almost always is one in South Korea, which is so annoying. and then there are so many days when I can't even find a server. what am I paying for?! what do they do with my money?
this is my first review that I'm posting, but I just couldn't keep quiet. even the CNET Editors gave a good review, but DO NOT BUY, STAY AWAY!
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Hide My IP 1.9
"Faster than other IP hiders, great support. Overall: awesome!"
Pros: I have tried numberous IP hiding tools (anonymizer, ghostsurf, netconceal) and I base my review on comparing Hide My IP 1.9 against these products. One feature I really like about hide my ip is it lets the user choose to use either it's own private IPs (which are quite fast) or open network IPs (slower, since they come from all kinds of counteries). NONE of the other tools I tried had that feature. I can even set Hide My IP to change my IP every minute if I want!
I also like the high level of security that comes with this product and the ability to hide my "user agent" (info about your computer sent our via your web browser when you surf).
I called their support number once before I ordered and once after, both times I got a LIVE PERSON who promptly answered my questions.
Overall, this is an awesome tool for many uses. Well done!
Cons: I was having trouble getting this tool to run on startup, but I found out later my firewall was blocking it. It DOES NOT work with P2P programs, unless you do some manual configurations. This is the only part that is kind of disapointing for me.
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