A VPN isn’t going to protect you from malware or trackers. I’m not sure how they can get away with this marketing.
If you want to boost your security focus on your web browser
They used to say NordVPN would boost your game’s latency in their ads so I’m not surprised
Using a VPN generally increases your latency. Latency is…bad. They are advertising a negative consequence as a positive feature, banking on the target market not having enough understanding of the terms in play.
Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You might understand it better but the frog is dead.
Plot twist, practically ALL advertisements are misleading
They have some additional services they advertise that supposedly deals with these, though I’d imagine they require installed software which would give them more visibility into systems than I’m comfortable with.
For trackers and to some extent malware, they could potentially block some by disallowing outgoing traffic from the VPN to known tracker IP’s/domains or C&C hosts/networks, but I could see that being fairly infectivity overall with potentially for false positives.
I thought the ‘security’ angle was just a smokescreen anyway. Isn’t it actually for accessing region-locked media?
Well, if you access things on the internet you could be sued for, your IP will not appear in the logs of your ISP or the webserver you connected to.
Nowadays everything is encrypted by default. You don’t get additional security with a VPN.
Well, not really with these, per se. My own VPN, Wireguard, routes back through my pihole service to double down on it’s filtering. For the most, I’m not trying to obfuscate my ip. If I wanted to do that I’d use tor or something. I just don’t want my traffic to be easily snooped on when I’m connected to wifi that isn’t mine.
VPNs are great for avoiding the nastygrams that your ISP forwards to you from media companies. They get sent to some company that doesn’t care about US laws instead, and probably laughed at before being deleted
All Nord VPN ads are.
