NordVPN verifies its no-logs claim for the fourth time
I chose it for speed. But that is also nice to know.
at last, I was waiting for this ‘update’ for a while now. I think its a massive advantage between the market players
Excellent news. Reaffirms my decision to switch to Nord.
As I understand things, what the mean by this is that they don’t log “traffic”, but they do log “metadata”.
the AMA from 2 months ago said:
we rely on different methods to prevent the misuse of our services. One of them is that we run bots on our VPN infrastructure ourselves. This helps us to determine the patterns of abusers without inspecting the traffic, but by only examining metadata, such as firewall counters for example. Another technique is observing the duration of user sessions per server. An absolutely abnormal scenario involves connecting to one server for several seconds, disconnecting, and connecting to another server again for several seconds.
This lead to the cases of users being banned for “web scrabing” (which, if they actully had done it, is still perfectly legal)
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All these ‘can’t trust it’ comments - what the hell are you guys doing that you are so scared of being tracked and found out?!
They do in India though, right? Legislated to do so afaik!
I think the “server” you quoted is referring to the VPN servers, not internet servers.
Web scraping gets nords IPs blocked from websites aka fucks up the use for regular users, it’s good that nord bans them
I actually DID get banned for “scraping” which I wasn’t. Had to contact support to have them reactivate my account. At the time I didn’t have 2FA and I know nothing was compromised (computer virus for example). I’ve been wondering if it’s an incentive or something to get people to sign up for the 2FA cuz they said they’d only reactivate my account if I started 2FA on my account.
“web scraping”
i have also literally wondered if it were possible for them to basically do a bait and switch with the auditor. they obviously know exactly when the auditor will be present. what if they have their servers perform logging 99% of the time, and just adjust them so they are not logging for the time the auditors are there.
in addition, do the auditors look at ALL servers EVERYWHERE or do they audit only select servers in select data centers?
Completely possible. We can’t trust anything these days.
(Had typo earlier)
Would you let anyone spy on you just because you have nothing incriminating to hide?
Obviously you would not. Same reason here.
Then I think NordVPN should have gotten some better deals so it doesn’t get blocked for its users legitimate web use.
Or, alternatively, be up-front that their service which I paid for to avoid surveliance has build-in surveliance.
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so what proof do you need?
Well, yes and no.
Yes, we can’t trust everything unless we can prove it ourselves.
No, to certain extent, we need to put faith in others. Otherwise, it is not a life to live at all.