I mean to me one of their huge red flags is their advertising. IE my big never using nord, was one of their commercials where basically it was voicing a guys vacuume, smart TV and Alexa, and vacume etc… talking about him behind his back. Which then the narrator is “Your devices are all talking about you behind your back, get nordvpn to protect yourself”.
That and many more were just blatent misrepresentation of what a VPN can and can’t do. (point being, in the real world… everythings running https or some level of encryption. If your devices are compiling information, it’s via their connection to their services. Of which a vpn isn’t going to do jack to protect you from.
Also a lot of shady things still within there, 2019 they had a major data breach, Many complaints on their service auto renewing.
you can get a summary of a lot of parts of it with windscribe.com/vpnmap
(site catalogs data breaches, complaints etc… with VPN services).
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 1 day ago
Yeah, the advertising stuff always bothers me. NordVPN is not unique in that sin, but it’s still a sin. Since I know why I want a VPN that misrepresentation doesn’t affect me. I sought them out, not the other way around. But if they want to build a large audience of people who don’t, like, pirate content or use public WiFi or want the Meshnet, they have to come up with bullshit to scare them with.
I’ll check out your link, thank you!
TheFogan@programming.dev 1 day ago
For me it’s kind of an honesty thing. The biggest thing is if they are lying to their customers there… also apparently lying about where it’s based (They are in Lithuania, which has manditory data retention laws), only using panama as a tax haven.
Bottom line is, it’s about trust… They have a history of lying about a lot of small things, which then makes me think twice before trusting them with bigger things.