Also they’re spending just wayyyyy too much on advertising for my taste.
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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 days agoI 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.
zqps@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
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 4 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 4 days ago
No, I’m definitely talking about https. Could be this is no longer a thing tho, I need to look it up.
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
afaik there is some metadata leak with https unless you use ECH which most websites do not support
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.
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I thought PIA had ownership issues but had also been audited the same way?
KernelTale@programming.dev 4 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”?