Wikipedia's first sentence called it “freemium web and mobile application which claims to provide a faster”. Today it says “freemium web and mobile application which provides a form of vpn service to its users through a peer-to-peer ne”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Freemium web and mobile application which provides a form of VPN service”. It now reads “Freemium VPN service”.
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The opening as it read in 2020
Hola is a freemium web and mobile application which provides a form of virtual private network services to its users through a peer-to-peer network.1 It also uses peer-to-peer caching . When a user accesses certain domains that are known to use geo-blocking, the Hola application redirects the request to go through the computers and Internet connections of other users in non-blocked areas, thereby circumventing the blocking . User's of the free service share a portion of their idle upload bandwidth to be used for serving cached data to other users. Paying users can choose to redirect all requests to peers but are themselves never used as peers. "Sweet: Hola lets you use Hulu, Pandora, Netflix, CBS, Fox, BBC iPlayer TV, and iTV from any country" .
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Hola is a freemium web and mobile application which claims to provide a faster, private and more secure Internet. It provides a form of virtual private network services to its users through a peer-to-peer network. It also uses peer-to-peer caching . When a user accesses certain domains that are known to use geo-blocking , the Hola application redirects the request to go through the computers and internet connections of other users in non-blocked areas, thereby circumventing the blocking . This also means that other users might access the internet through one's own computer, and that part of one's upload bandwidth might be used for serving cached data to other users. Paying users can choose to redirect all requests to peers but are themselves never used as peers. Free users are also limited in how much they can use Hola per day, whereas paying users are not. "Sweet: Hola lets you use Hulu, Pandora, Netflix, CBS, Fox, BBC iPlayer TV, and iTV from any country" .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Freemium web and mobile application which provides a form of VPN service Hola is a freemium web and mobile application which provides a form of VPN service to its users through a peer-to-peer network. It also uses peer-to-peer caching . When a user accesses certain domains that are known to use geo-blocking, the Hola application redirects the request to go through the computers and Internet connections of other users in non-blocked areas, thereby circumventing the blocking . Users of the free service share a portion of their idle upload bandwidth to be used for serving cached data to other users. Paying users can choose to redirect all requests to peers but are themselves never used as peers. "Sweet: Hola lets you use Hulu, Pandora, Netflix, CBS, Fox, BBC iPlayer TV, and iTV from any country" .
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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “freemium web and mobile application which claims to provide a faster”. Today it says “freemium web and mobile application which provides a form of vpn service to its users through a peer-to-peer ne”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Freemium web and mobile application which provides a form of VPN service”. It now reads “Freemium VPN service”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
freemium web and mobile application which claims to provide a faster
Now
freemium web and mobile application which provides a form of vpn service to its users through a peer-to-peer ne
Sections that no longer exist
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