Ok, I'd been unthinkingly using Hola to watch NetFlix for the past month. Then, I noticed something weird: VOAT's CloudFlare protection would block me -- except for when I was using Hola. Then, I could usually get through. I'd wondered if this was some idiosyncrasy of VOAT preferring American servers, but someone set me straight.

Hola allows other people to use your IP. They can use this to DDOS sites. Stamping out the offending IPs is something of a fools errand because you're getting a randomized swath of IPs. But Hola seemed to be the connecting thread. If you read people's concerns about this, they leap to imagining "people could download child porn with your IP". Yeah, this is panic-thinking. I think the end user is just watching World Cup in your name. But I'm no fool: I think this was the point of Hola. And I think Hola knows damned well who they're DDOSing.

So far, there seem to be two hits: VOAT and 8Chan. I wonder if there are more. Would it be possible to cobble together an "axis of lulz"? If we're the "target", we're someone's enemy. Who hates us? Why would Hola do this this to the netizens? In other words, who does #2 work for? The creators of Hola are publicly known , but that's kind of a dead end. Israel, US, UK... Common bedfellows. I would like more specifics: State Department, IDF, etc. And I might be able to get a better sense of the program if more hits could be confirmed -- yet I have no way to do that.

Ideas?