In the beginning I regularly checked my IP Address to ensure what it was doing was what I wanted it to do. As time moved on, I became complacent. It has been playing up recently, regularly dropping me out of the Internet. I've uninstalled/re-installed it several times in recent weeks. The downside is that it has stopped hiding my IP Address. I've confirmed this with a series of tests today.
I'm not saying this has happened to all Betternet users (things often seem to happen to just me), but I now realise that I've probably been downloading for a couple of weeks with my true identity on show to the world.
I'm now using the Hola VPN extension for Chrome, which is a little harder to use than Betternet, but a lot more flexible. Several tests, and all seems well.
), the common denominator was Betternet. Switch it off, and everything was fine. Switch it on, and grind to a halt (although downloads continued at a rate of knots).
