Nord is a company that spends a lot of money on ads. They pay a lot of youtubers. In general, when a company uses most of their money on ads, they tend to get as much users as possible while not spending a lot of money on quality. I don’t trust those companies.
Friends of mine say it’s fine. But they don’t have anything else as reference. I can’t say for certain, but Nord isn’t the safest and most private VPN out there. Also some VPN providers log traffic, which can be confiscated with a court order. Again, I’m not sure if this is the case with Nord.
I myself use Proton, which is completely privacy based. Their company changed to become a foundation to ensure their privacy focus no matter who might be in power in the future. Their prices are fair, their services are good. They don’t spend money on ads, they spend all their effort and resources into making internet a better place.
As soon as companies are sponsors for many youtubers, I don’t trust them.
For instance, opera used to be an awesome browser made by a Norwegian team. They sold it to a Chinese company that provides predatory loans in poor African countries, completely destroying family’s lives. They promote the shit out the browser, while it also saves your data and uses your machine to farm crypto. Evil as fuck.
While the original creators of opera started a new browser which is how they believe it should be: private, your property, full of personalization, no bullshit. It’s called Vivaldi. But they don’t promote it like Opera does. Because they are honest and don’t want to waste resources while they can better use that for improving their product even more.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I don’t know much about Nord’s quality as a service, but I know that they really spearheaded the effort to spread misinformation on how Internet security works (claiming that a VPN would protect the information you enter into a website when HTTPS already does that) via YouTube ad reads. That alone is enough to make me swear off ever using them.
Chezus9247@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Urgh. I use Mullvad, it’s just 5€ per month and so far works great. I hope there’s nothing bad I don’t know about it. lol
vodka@feddit.org 4 days ago
Mullvad complies to all legal requests!!
Which doesn’t matter since they’re properly setup for there to be nothing law enforcement can get out of them.
br14n@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
The only true and tested nolog VPN provider ever.
KernelTale@programming.dev 3 days ago
They are the only VPN company with a clean record but personally only VPN I would trust is onion, garlic etc. kind of networks.
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 3 days ago
How do you define “with a clean record”?
zqps@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Also they’re spending just wayyyyy too much on advertising for my taste.
Hiro8811@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Lots of VPNs are actually owned by one company, like Nordvpn and surfshark are both owned by Nord security, lemme find the list…
Heavybell@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m under the impression https can be defeated by a man-in-the-middle attack if you’re not paying attention. Haven’t looked into it recently to be sure if that’s still the case or a solved issue, though. But that was one reason to use a VPN while on untrusted wifi, supposedly.
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
if you are using http yes, any modern website uses https, in most cases vpn will at least prevent dns hijacking (since unecrypted dns is still the default)
Heavybell@lemmy.world 3 days ago
No, I’m definitely talking about https. Could be this is no longer a thing tho, I need to look it up.