Nord VPN tv commercials are incredibly misleading

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• MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ispot.tv is on one of my blacklists, it seems to be an advertising service?

  Many VPNs have built in traffic filtering that does block common malware, phishing, and tracking domains/IPs.

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  • scytale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, they’re not completely telling the truth, but they aren’t exactly lying either.

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They literally aren’t saying anything. There are no verbs in this advertisement; the narrator is speaking in noun phrases, not sentences. So he’s literally saying nothing.

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  • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A bit is a little understatement.

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• ryannathans@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Plot twist, practically ALL advertisements are misleading

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• lilShalom@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good luck trying to explain to normies what a vpn is in 30 seconds.

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  • cadekat@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A VPN does this, but for your internet connection:

    two phone receivers, with the speaker of one against the microphone of the other

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    • ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It lets my internets 69??

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  • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Internet providers, governments and criminals can see what you are doing online, With VPN they can’t anymore.

    Thats basically it.

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    • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      …they can’t really? Only the domain name is visible to the ISP, and criminals are either stopped by https or won’t care about a VPN.

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    • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah I don’t buy it.

      Instead of tapping individual connections, you now only have to tap the traffic to/from the VPNs exit nodes. Then you correlate incoming packets with outgoing packets (e.g. based on size, timing, etc) and you know the origin of the traffic.

      Bonus is that it acts as a filter, people using a VPN want to hide their traffic so you specifically want to watch those people.

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    • dvdv@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      With a VPN it’s harder for some and impossible for others. But don’t for a second think nobody can see what you’re doing. I don’t want to go into the whole tinfoil provacy rabbithole but with things like browser fingerprinting it’s all moot

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  • Hack3900@lemdit.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can pretend to be somewhere else to watch some geo locked content

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    • jackie_jormp_jomp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      MLB.TV thinks I’m from Seattle so I can watch games that would usually be blacked out, works great

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• phx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They have some additional services they advertise that supposedly deals with these, though I’d imagine they require installed software which would give them more visibility into systems than I’m comfortable with.

  For trackers and to some extent malware, they could potentially block some by disallowing outgoing traffic from the VPN to known tracker IP’s/domains or C&C hosts/networks, but I could see that being fairly infectivity overall with potentially for false positives.

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• ijeff@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re probably referring to their DNS ad and malicious domain filter.

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  • majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Came to say this. It’s a feature they provide so they aren’t falsely advertising but it’s also nothing special.

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• CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  All Nord VPN ads are.

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  • theKalash@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All Nord VPN ads are.

    FTFY

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    • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Eh. Proton is Pretty honest

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• charonn0@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I thought the ‘security’ angle was just a smokescreen anyway. Isn’t it actually for accessing region-locked media?

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s for torrents.

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    • m_f@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      VPNs are great for avoiding the nastygrams that your ISP forwards to you from media companies. They get sent to some company that doesn’t care about US laws instead, and probably laughed at before being deleted

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    • AngryAnusHornets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • rambaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I use my VPN on public networks for additional security

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nowadays everything is encrypted by default. You don’t get additional security with a VPN.

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  • Norgur@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, if you access things on the internet you could be sued for, your IP will not appear in the logs of your ISP or the webserver you connected to.

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    • charonn0@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sure. But they can’t advertise on that point. So they made claim it’s for malware and tracking protection even though that makes no sense.

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  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it keeps your isp from knowing what websites you’re going to?

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• tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY

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• diamond_shield@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They used to say NordVPN would boost your game’s latency in their ads so I’m not surprised

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  • bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Technically the truth

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    • diamond_shield@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Technically? This irony or am I missing something?

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• Greg@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I cancelled my subscription once all my water turned to jello

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