AnchorFree’s Hotspot Shield application addresses a market of over 1.6 billion Internet users, in need of secure browsing, privacy, and freedom online. Hotspot Shield secures all Internet communications and web browsing and protects each user’s privacy and identity online. Hotspot Shield secures all browsing making each page you visit as secure as your banking site (turning all HTTP traffic into HTTP(S)). Protecting users across many devices and all browsers, Hotspot Shield is the preferred and most trusted way to browse the web for millions of consumers. Channeling all web activities through a personal Virtual Private Network, Hotspot Shield creates a personal secure tunnel for each user and enables user online activities, sites visited, searches and personally identifiable information to always stay private. In regions that censor the web, Hotspot Shield acts as a secure gateway to the world’s information, disrupting censorship, and democratizing the web. Expats, travelers, and locals in countries with censorship, use Hotspot Shield to gain completely free and uncensored access to the world’s information. Hotspot Shield is rated as the world’s most popular solution for staying secure in public Wi-Fi hotspots. Hotspot Shield works on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. On mobile devices Hotspot Shield enables data compression, increasing the amount of data a user has under their mobile data plan and thus saving users money on mobile data. Hotspot Shield also protects users from over 3 million malware threats, phishing sites, and spam. Hotspot Shield is 100% FREE, without any limitations, when you use our advertising supported service, or you can upgrade to our paid Elite product, which has extra security and speed functionality and does not have ads..