What are your experiences with NordVPN? Lots of professional review websites seem to recommend it as their top contender, but I’m not sure if they’ve paid review sites off… I would be using it on a laptop running Windows and on an iphone & ipad. I’ve been considering if I should get a VPN for a wh…

[image] ParkerS: I would be using it on a laptop running Windows and on an iphone & ipad. ProtonVPN might be a good choice, or even Mullvad. Would avoid other VPNs tbh.

[image] ParkerS: but I’m not sure if they’ve paid review sites off… 100% paid. The VPN industry (and the VPN ““review”” industry) is notoriously horrible when it comes to paid reviews, and disingenous marketing. but the Malwarebytes […] is now telling me I should get one Unsurprisingly Ma…

@xe3 I’m not really interested in Malwarebytes’ own VPN, but I trust them security wise and the reccomendation to get a VPN seems to be new (as of last time I looked at the application). I’m liking the look of Mullvad, my one concern is the reviews of the iOS app. The ProtonVPN app has much better …

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You should avoid all Nord Security products, that’s all that you need to know.

That’s quite common for them: A Nord VPN bug, a(nother) bad Microsoft patch, Zynga data farmed out, and more • The Register Row erupts over who to blame after NordVPN says: One of our servers was hacked via remote management tool • The Register NordVPN quietly plugged vuln where an HTTP POST reque…

[image] ParkerS: This is so stressful. A lot. Like was very well put together by Eric Murphy in this video .

are you suggesting its not worth using a VPN at all?

No. You should assess your own needs. For example, for me, even if VPN may not offer any security or privacy value (it offers) I still need to have access to other countries network locations. It is stressful all this dominance of shady VPN providers in the review scene. Making people confused and …

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anon80779245 June 17, 2024, 9:40am 11

This is well hidden, but if you look Nord VPN had a vulnerability and they failed to disclose it for over a year.

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