It is absolutely illegal and you can and should file a FCC complaint.
Another concern, don’t ISPs hate VPNs?
I know at least in the US, ISPs are responsible for user pirated content, and they have a responsibility to monitor your data for anything suspicious.
Another note is that ISPs don’t like you moving a lot of data, even with unlimited plans, and will check for anything suspicious or even try to move you to an enterprise account if they think you’re conducting business with the connection.
They can’t see any of your data if you use a VPN, is this just a situation of "ooh lots of money for deal’ or something else
How could Onestream do that??? It’s their fault to make you pay, whereas they should do it themselves if they want you on a VPN
I was with Onestream, I started paying 20 a month and ending with paying 55 a month with only 78Mbps, once I realised I cancelled
Happy that i live in west eu
Would be cancelling an revoking anything about that company an file a complaint
Call your credit card company or write them about this and block Nord VPN. If you don’t want it.
So I contacted Nord vpn who had this to say
If your ISP is signing you up for a particular VPN. Stay away from that VPN. They might have an “understanding”.
This company is engaged in massively illegal practices. I wrote on their trust pilot a few months back about it. I need to file a complaint with Ofcom too tbh
I pay $50 for 5G and before that I paid $65 for 3mbps down and 0.5 mbps upload on DSL. You brits are lucky.
Come to Romania, I pay around 30-40 euros a month for cable, internet and mobile, internet speed is pretty good for the money.
£44 for 20mb?! Daylight robbery right there! I thought it was bad enough when my old provider, Sky, was charging £45 for 63mb.
We now have Vodafone 900mb which is £29 for 2 years.
I’m out of contract with them so stupid pricing but waiting for fibre to go live (next few months)
Prohibitive termination fees are illegal in the UK - doesn’t deter Onestream, who have a “joining fee” of several hundred pounds that is “waived” at joining but becomes payable if you leave before the end of the contract. I’m convinced that this is in essence an early termination fee and hope they get a huge fine for it.
Data *including* OP’s credit card. Since the NordVPN subscription is not tied to Onestream, it means they literally have OP’s credit card information which is highly illegal.
At least you sign up for LinkedIn and start the trial, this is unsolicited from my ISP!!
30 day trials that require payment information in advance* are never free. They’re rare, but true free trials do exist, where you can sign up without providing anything and then choose to start paying at the end of the trial if you like the product, instead of giving them your details in advance so that they can automatically take payment if you forget to cancel - usually a day or two before the trial even ends to “ensure a seamless transition” (bullshit).
What happened in OP’s case though surely is illegal. Their ISP has used their customers payment details to sign the customer up to a completely different service from a completely different company, without even consulting OP. I mean surely this amounts to theft if nothing else, they’re literally using their customers payment details without permission to buy a product/service that the account holder didn’t ask for.
If I have to give payment details, its not free.
The thing is, having recently done that, 30 days of the trial is generally enough to spam the shit out of recruiters normally locked behind premium messages and get them to notice you.
In the 30 days i had linkedin premium, I actually did get more interviews, so I do see a value in the service