I wanted a VPN mostly for when I’m using public WiFi networks, but although I don’t deal with sensitive data, I don’t want a company looking at what I’m doing. I subscribed for a 2 year membership of NordVPN, but someone I know who works with tech told me it was a bad deal, that would never ever trust them to manage all my internet data, and I should use something like Mullvad. They said that the fact that they sponsor everyone was shady. However, I made a quick search and I found absolutely nothing against them and I don’t think ads are a bad indicator of a company necessarily. Every company has ads. Is there anything that makes NordVPN less private? Is it trustworthy? I read their code is not open source, is this a concern for some reason?
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Nord have a number of shady tactics.
They make it difficult to cancel subscriptions, and their pricing goes up months before the end of your term. They always seem to have a sale on, and fairly often you see the fake counter counting down (and resetting to something like 9:37 remaining if you clear history and cookies…)
They probably make a service that is fine to use, but they’re not a service I’d recommend.
Go with Mullvad or IVPN.
nope, if you are looking for trustworthy, look else where from Nord
But what exactly makes them untrustworthy? Their pricing is good =(
If price is all you care about, go with surfshark, another schlocky vpn provider, even cheaper than nord
Surfshark is literally the same company as Nord… always has been, even before they “merged” with Nord.