HMA VPN Allows You To "Unlock" US/Foreign Content

There is no single more annoying message to see when browsing the Internet than "This content is not available in your country" and this is because in almost 100% of cases it's when you're trying to watch a video of some kind. There are lots of political and business reasons why companies lock their content to a specific country or region but I'm not going to get into those here because the end result is always the same - you can't watch the movie, trailer or game you were looking forward to so much.

You can use a proxy to get around this problem but that means manually configuring your web browser and then hoping that the proxy is actually working and that the same proxy isn't actually blocked by the video service you're trying to access. Proxies change so often that you wind up having to change the proxy you're using at least every few days.

In the end I got sick of having to fiddle with individual proxies and decided that a VPN service would suit me more, which is one of the many reasons I signed up for Hide My Ass in the first place. Some people argue that proxies are that bit faster than a VPN but I'll take the convenience of Hide My Ass VPN over fiddling with proxies any day of the week - it only takes 2 click of a mouse to connect and another 2 clicks to change servers. Plus personally speaking it's more than fast enough for anything I'm doing online!