NordVPN is one of the most popular VPNs, which makes the critiques over its privacy practices extra concerning. We investigate the most prominent accusations.
  • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.orgEnglish
    15·
    4 months ago

    You do know that you are not getting the best product and prices for something when the company is doing that much advertising

  • network_switch@lemmy.mlEnglish
    101·
    4 months ago

    When I paid for nordvpn with a credit card and decided to cancel, it took like a week and a half of emails with them to cancel and remove my payment info. A lot of, are you sure you want to cancel, are you sure you’re who you say you are

    After that no more nordvpn. Pay for these services with crypto

    • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      Mullvad FTW. They’ve already proven themselves when they were raided and the feds got nothing.

  • SleeplessCityLights@programming.devEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    Yes, NordVPN is garbage. As a SysAdmin, my users that run it on their home PC along with our VPN are a continuous pain in the ass. The product only needs to be 5% of what it is, the rest is Anti-virus bs. It either: does not play well with other VPNs, is impossible to disable, or the people that buy this product are not computer literate enough to use such a complicated peice of shit. All of the above is also a possibility. Since it’s their home PC, we won’t go on it to fix anything and all I can do is blindly troubleshoot. The VPN I use cost me $20 a year and the only thing it does is be a VPN. It should be called NordComplicatedSecuritySuite.

  • frog_brawler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    Nord doesn’t do a whole lot for anyone so it’s pretty worthless.

    That being said, I switched to Proton from Nord a few months ago and this shit isn’t working out either. Constantly flapping connection with Proton.

    I need a different alternative.

  • el_abuelo@programming.devEnglish
    31·
    4 months ago

    I’ve used NordVPN for a couple of years and never had reason to switch. None of it gets in my way, and it’s just worked.

    I’m sure others are just the same, but ive no reason to put in effort to change when I have a working solution.

    Plus it’s double effort cus I dont think anyone else does a meshnet alternative so I’d be setting up tailscale too.

    • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      Meshnet is going to be discontinued.

      There’s also local share that is free open source that does the same thing as meshnet. It’s been around for some time now and can be installed on most devices.

      And incognito is not going to be linked to nord anymore. You’d have to pay for that service separate. Nord definitely has been going downhill on services to use. I mean it has locker so there’s that but even then… proton does the same thing. Also there’s proton vpn. At least with proton you get an email and calendar and all that jazz too. Not that there is anything wrong with nord just being a vpn. It’s just shitty they did all this bait and switch bullshit. Leaves à sour taste with trust issues.

      • el_abuelo@programming.devEnglish
        11·
        4 months ago

        If you’re referring to their announcement last year about discontinuing meshnet, they’ve retracted that.

        I know there are alternatives but why would I go to any effort to set them up when i have something that has worked exactly as I want it to for the last 2yrs? The cost of nordvpn is sufficiently low enough that I wouldn’t switch to something just because it’s free.

        • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          4 months ago

          You do you. I have trust issues with companies switching their motto every two seconds. I’d rather not be complacent to instability nor discourage anyone who expects some basic standards of consistency where they spend their money.

  • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    I need a VPN to get around geoblocks and to torrent without my ISP sending me letters.

    NordVPN always worked perfectly fine for me. I don’t see the problem? Not saying other ones aren’t better, but it seems perfectly adequate.

    Looks like the concerns are about who owns it? But how does that make it a worse solution for my torrent box?

    • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      They could possibly snitch you out to your government. We can’t trust that they are not recording your traffic.

      • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Yeah but so could my ISP, and all in all I find it more likely my ISP would, than that NordVPN would. I don’t trust either, but I definitely trust my ISP less.