• TheFogan@programming.dev
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    6 days ago

    Big mystery to me, where the hell is opera getting so much money to shove in front of every youtube channel out there. It seems to be one of those things that every creator starts recomending at the same time… which automatically makes me cringe because, well obviously almost everything that has a huge influencer push, is complete garbage (air up, honey. nordvpn etc…)

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      6 days ago

      NordVPN

      Genuine question, how is NordVPN complete garbage?

      I did some research before re-upping, and they consistently test well. They don’t keep logs. Meshnet is awesome.

      As far as I can tell the worst thing they do is lie about how a VPN makes using the internet “safer” which probably isn’t true for most use cases. But all of the VPN companies do that, it seems.

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        I mean to me one of their huge red flags is their advertising. IE my big never using nord, was one of their commercials where basically it was voicing a guys vacuume, smart TV and Alexa, and vacume etc… talking about him behind his back. Which then the narrator is “Your devices are all talking about you behind your back, get nordvpn to protect yourself”.

        That and many more were just blatent misrepresentation of what a VPN can and can’t do. (point being, in the real world… everythings running https or some level of encryption. If your devices are compiling information, it’s via their connection to their services. Of which a vpn isn’t going to do jack to protect you from.

        Also a lot of shady things still within there, 2019 they had a major data breach, Many complaints on their service auto renewing.

        you can get a summary of a lot of parts of it with https://windscribe.com/vpnmap

        (site catalogs data breaches, complaints etc… with VPN services).