I see people say that NordVPN is a bad choice all the time, but I’ve never seen any credible evidence that they’re not trustworthy. Can anyone provide any sources with valid reasons to avoid their service? I only know that they had some servers hacked in 2018, but it seems as though they took that very seriously and upgraded their hardware and encryption accordingly. I’m just trying to decide if I want to start looking at alternatives, but honestly I’m pretty satisfied with my experience so far.
AFAIK those commercials are made by the content creators themselves and Nord just gives them a guidelines doc, right?
It’s true that VPN doesn’t do much tho it definitely used to help with IP-based tracking. Imagine if we all pooled our connections through 1 Lemmy IP then the tracker will be very confused why this one IP is coming to many different sources. It doesn’t work as much anymore because now 99% of tracking is done through javascript and it’s a long lost battle already.
NORD have to sign off on them, they are responsible for their image. It’s still on them.
One that was coming to my mind was this one https://www.ispot.tv/ad/IU7h/nordvpn-terrible-at-secrets
which, everything I can see was actually an ad created by nord themselves.
Yeah I get the youtube promo spots say where a youtube creator slips a promo in, and they get lots of leeway and aren’t heavily focused on. But many of them are put out by nords marketing team directly. Who either doesn’t understand their own product, or is trying to mislead.