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
Good luck trying to explain to normies what a vpn is in 30 seconds.
Internet providers, governments and criminals can see what you are doing online, With VPN they can’t anymore.
Thats basically it.
…they can’t really? Only the domain name is visible to the ISP, and criminals are either stopped by https or won’t care about a VPN.
Yeah I don’t buy it.
Instead of tapping individual connections, you now only have to tap the traffic to/from the VPNs exit nodes. Then you correlate incoming packets with outgoing packets (e.g. based on size, timing, etc) and you know the origin of the traffic.
Bonus is that it acts as a filter, people using a VPN want to hide their traffic so you specifically want to watch those people.
With a VPN it’s harder for some and impossible for others. But don’t for a second think nobody can see what you’re doing. I don’t want to go into the whole tinfoil provacy rabbithole but with things like browser fingerprinting it’s all moot
Yes but for most normal people it’s enough and people that are on that kind of watch list usually know what they need.
You can pretend to be somewhere else to watch some geo locked content
MLB.TV thinks I’m from Seattle so I can watch games that would usually be blacked out, works great
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.
They’re probably referring to their DNS ad and malicious domain filter.
All Nord VPN ads are.
I thought the ‘security’ angle was just a smokescreen anyway. Isn’t it actually for accessing region-locked media?
I use my VPN on public networks for additional security
It’s for torrents.
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…it’s fer the torrents. I love you, VPN.
I think it keeps your isp from knowing what websites you’re going to?
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.
Sure. But they can’t advertise on that point. So they claim it’s for malware and tracking protection even though that makes no sense.
I cancelled my subscription once all my water turned to jello
They used to say NordVPN would boost your game’s latency in their ads so I’m not surprised
Technically the truth
Technically? This irony or am I missing something?
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.
