How to Uninstall Hola VPN

Hola VPN is a popular browser plugin that provides virtual private networking functionality directly in your browser. Hola VPN uses a peer to peer model to provide its users VPN services and uses a freemium model.

There has been significant controversy over Hola VPN and how exactly it works. Reports have been posted, indicating that Hola VPN is selling customer information through a sister company called Luminati. As early as 2018, Trend Micro published an extensive report on how exactly the process works, both in terms of data flow and transfer of customer information.

If you are among the users who are catching up to this information just now and would like to uninstall Hola VPN, you can follow this short guide.

If you have added the Hola VPN extension to Chrome, do the following:

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   Open Chrome and open the menu by clicking the hamburger vertical dots button in the upper right corner.

2. Click on the Settings item in the menu.

3. In the settings window, click Extensions in the left menu panel.

4. Find Hola VPN in the list of extensions and click the “Remove” button.

If you have added the Hola VPN addon to Firefox, do the following:

1. Open Firefox, then open the menu by clicking the hamburger button in the upper right corner.

2. Click on the Add-ons item in the menu.

3. Click on Extensions in the left menu panel in case it’s not already highlighted.

4. Find Hola VPN in the list of installed extensions, click the dotted button next to it and choose Remove.

This should be enough to remove Hola VPN from your browser of choice and ensure your browsing is a little safer and more private in the future.