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’m not sure if they’ve paid review sites off… Yes.

[image] ParkerS: they’ve paid review sites off… Its sponsored content. You should know from the amount of YT videos we’ve seen peddle it. I havent seen the more reputable VPNs being advertised as much as Nord. Quite frankly with a marketing budget like that, it sort of make me a bit worried…

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[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 …

Also relevant blog article: [image] The Trouble With VPN and Privacy Review Sites There’s a massive problem in the privacy world. Many shady companies are disguising advertisements as genuine reviews, to the detriment of real news sources like Privacy Guides and to potential buyers of t…

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

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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ParkerS June 17, 2024, 6:34am 4

This is so stressful. How am I supposed to know what VPNs are actually good if the review websites are paid off?

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