Reddit users hate NordVPN. Are their criticisms legit?
2026-03-07 11:17 UTC
Replies (18)
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@remon@ani.social 2026-03-07 12:41
I still have 200+ days on my plan, but cancelled it for now. Not because of any major concerns, it’s good enough for what I need it for. But they just making the app worse. There used to be like a map where you could select servers, they removed it. You used to have a “pause” and a “disconnect” next to each other. Now the “disconnect” is the last option behind the “pause” menu. Why? I hate enshittification and that’s just that. Will probably switch to mullvad after it expires.
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@LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 2026-03-07 12:41
Send like most of the valid criticism is based around the fact that the company also is in the business of user data mining. Which is enough for me to never use them. Though they also very aggressively advertise, which is also a big red flag. > Sharing co-owners with Tesonet and receiving funding from the same company that owns a data-mining service isn’t ideal. But there is no evidence, and never has been, that anything is being shared between NordVPN and Oxylabs. Besides, NordVPN states that it follows a strict no-logs policy, which means it doesn’t record, store, or share user activity. And this is backed up by the usage of RAM-only servers and multiple independent audits—most recently the service passed a third-party no-logs audit in late 2025 by security firm Deloitte.
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@scytale@piefed.zip 2026-03-07 17:26
Most stuff with obnoxious advertising causes me to avoid them, and that’s usually a bad sign. Compare that to Mullvad, who only do pinpoint relevant ads, and they have the receipts that show they actually do what they say.
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@Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2026-03-07 11:36
They are right this time
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@socsa@piefed.social 2026-03-08 18:04
Yes, the advertising is straight up misleading, saying shit like it protects you from viruses, and hides your browsing history from your ISP and lets you get international Netflix. It literally does nothing for viruses, it just exposes you to a different ISP (Nord), and Netflix is usually pretty quick about VPN blocking.
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@JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 2026-03-08 10:14
You do know that you are not getting the best product and prices for something when the company is doing that much advertising
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@network_switch@lemmy.ml 2026-03-07 17:38
When I paid for nordvpn with a credit card and decided to cancel, it took like a week and a half of emails with them to cancel and remove my payment info. A lot of, are you sure you want to cancel, are you sure you're who you say you are After that no more nordvpn. Pay for these services with crypto
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@thirteene@lemmy.world 2026-03-08 05:11
Yes, fuck nordvpn
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@SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 2026-03-07 16:45
Yes, NordVPN is garbage. As a SysAdmin, my users that run it on their home PC along with our VPN are a continuous pain in the ass. The product only needs to be 5% of what it is, the rest is Anti-virus bs. It either: does not play well with other VPNs, is impossible to disable, or the people that buy this product are not computer literate enough to use such a complicated peice of shit. All of the above is also a possibility. Since it's their home PC, we won't go on it to fix anything and all I can do is blindly troubleshoot. The VPN I use cost me $20 a year and the only thing it does is be a VPN. It should be called NordComplicatedSecuritySuite.
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@gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-03-09 10:39
TL;DR - sponsored article disguising as an opinion piece, mentions briefly the many many problems with it, but ends with "I trust my corporate overlords to never use my data for evil"
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@MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2026-03-07 12:35
My experience with them was bad. Somehow they automatically moved me from a plan for just vpn (which is pretty cheap) to one that included a bunch of bullshit I didn't need, want, or even know I could use. The new plan was over $30/mo. There are ISPs who charge less than that! My previous VPN service has been about $36 per year or something. I remember it was small enough that I just paid it annually out of pocket change, which also lowered the price in comparison. I stopped sailing the seas, as it were, and dropped it. Then I needed to briefly, and tried Nord. Meh. Anyways it's strictly land-lubbing these days.
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@el_abuelo@programming.dev 2026-03-08 17:56
I've used NordVPN for a couple of years and never had reason to switch. None of it gets in my way, and it's just worked. I'm sure others are just the same, but ive no reason to put in effort to change when I have a working solution. Plus it's double effort cus I dont think anyone else does a meshnet alternative so I'd be setting up tailscale too.
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@frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2026-03-09 10:20
Nord doesn’t do a whole lot for anyone so it’s pretty worthless. That being said, I switched to Proton from Nord a few months ago and this shit isn’t working out either. Constantly flapping connection with Proton. I need a different alternative.
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@webkitten@piefed.social 2026-03-07 17:36
Nord is good for what it is; they advertise to casual users for a reason.
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@dev_null@lemmy.ml 2026-03-09 11:55
I need a VPN to get around geoblocks and to torrent without my ISP sending me letters. NordVPN always worked perfectly fine for me. I don't see the problem? Not saying other ones aren't better, but it seems perfectly adequate. Looks like the concerns are about who owns it? But how does that make it a worse solution for my torrent box?
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@MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2026-03-11 17:39
# Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
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@cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-07 12:34
Reddit also hates people who criticize child predators. I question calling something Nordic if it’s based in Panama and headquartered in Lithuania. I get it, it’s just branding, like how Texas Pete isn’t made in Texas (at least it’s not made in New York City, I suppose) but maybe call it something else? IIRC Proton _is_ Nordic, but I don’t know if that makes their VPN better or worse. They do have a free ordering and I use it when I’m on public WiFi because I can, but otherwise can’t vouch for it.
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@atropa@piefed.social 2026-03-07 11:26
Ask it on reddit , not here in fediverse