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What's with all the NordVPN hate?

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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.

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Xylight (Photon dev)@lemmy.xylight.dev
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NordVPN was breached in 2018, and they took an entire year to tell people that they were breached. They’re also quite expensive, while there is many other options.

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Linker95@lemmy.world
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Wasn’t NordVPN that provider that said they were no log and then a hack happened and exposed that they did, in fact, retain logs of user activity? Am I mixing them up with someone else?

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Cinner@kbin.social
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That’s happened with almost every VPN provider that has claimed to be no-log and then got a government subpoena. At that point you have 2 options: A.) Shut down, or B.) Code a technical way to capture the requested information for that user.

Sometimes they do choose to shut down and sometimes there isn’t a technically feasible way to get the information.

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Barbieque@programming.dev
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None of the other answers I’m seeing are the actual reasons you shouldn’t trust more specifically. The reason you shouldn’t trust them is because a few years ago they had a data breach. It was relatively small and wouldn’t have effected many if any people but the problem was they didn’t disclose it and tried to bury it. It wasn’t found out about until a few years later. That should tell you if they had a major data breach that did affect you they would try to hide that from you and you would never know unless a you were made aware through other means.

Source: https://www.techradar.com/news/whats-the-truth-about-the-nordvpn-breach-heres-what-we-now-know

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satanmat@lemmy.world
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Yeah. I’ve not had any issues

So. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Cevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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You appear to be missing an arm. Here, take this one instead: \

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ohmyiv@lemmy.world
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I use a different VPN, but honestly, I wouldn’t use Nord only because of their ads and sponsorships. It’s kind of a lame excuse, but they wore me out with that.

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