“Spyware free” NordVPN collecting data from it’s users.
That’s scary
But before we continue, I would want to thank NordVPN for sponsoring this comment
I just attempted to use adguard as a custom DNS, seems to work perfectly and performing a leak tests appears to go to adguard instead of the VPN providers. I’m calling a “citation needed” on this one super hard. (For full transparency I’ve turned off the “Help Us Improve” slider, which I suspect is the bit that uses Google Analytics and might be causing the problems described)
Knew it’s too good to be true. Free trial? Regular and many codes with (semi) popular you tubers like Illuminaughtii, Strange Æons and Kinganni? There HAS to be a downside
I prefer to watch a Raid Shadow Legends ad anyway
While this certainly is possible, a tweet from a random is nowhere near proof this actually happens.
Like other have said. I have been using my own dns with filters for years and I trialed Nord without any problem.
Every vpn that advertises heavily in the tech youtuber space eventually gets caught harvesting data. Anyone remember tunnelbear? Expressvpn?
If you want a good vpn, hide a couple raspis at a coffee shop while you’re on a road trip.
I’m blocking Google Analytics in my PiHole DNS server, and I have no problems using NordVPN on Android?
I’m going to chalk this up to bad android permissions coding than malicious intent. Some of the seemingly basic permissions (like Google analytics or contacts) are required for unrelated things like virus tracking or the notifications bar. Is it dumb, yes, possibly malicious by Google, also yes. But I don’t think nord has a choice here
I just went to cancel with nord and it was such r/assholedesign. All the highlighted buttons were to keep your plan. I accidentally clicked it when I thought it was submit and had to start the process over again.
Can someone please ELI5 to me? English not first language+ not very knowledgeable about VPns
Nord has become shit. Surfshark has been working well for me