NordVPN library and client code open-sourced
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#2Can't read the words "Nord VPN" without hearing it in my head as Richard Coffin from The Plain Bagel.
Which is ironic as previously I had trouble separating it from Critical Role thanks to the ad skits Sam Riegel used to do.
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#3Hopefully this helps the app become more stable, on Windows it has become pretty unstable as of late. I've had background tasks fail, LAN problems, issues with it acting like it's trying to connect still when it's actually successfully connected to the VPN, and sometimes where it won't reconnect to the VPN at all without a reboot. Some of that could be problems from Windows Insider but some of the same happens on a Windows 10 box I have that is on the standard release channel.
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#4why do they spend so much money on ads? seems like more budget than could be explained via sales to civilians
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#5https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY
That's a video about NordVPN's dishonest advertising and how deeply it's infected YouTube.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/nordvpn-ad-banned-for-exaggeratin...
> The UK's Advertising Standards Agency(Opens in a new window) has banned a NordVPN commercial for misleading viewers about the privacy risks of using a public Wi-Fi network without also having a VPN.
In essence: HTTPS already does what NordVPN claims you need a VPN to do. More, in fact, because HTTPS validates that the domain you're communicating with is the domain that shows up in your browser's address bar, which a VPN can't do on its own.
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#6I am taking a look at this. Now do Grammarly next, if we want to go by annoying Youtube ads. Someone should tell Grammarly that they are being excessive and too much advertising actually turns people off your product.
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#7Reminder that it looks like NordVPN does shady stuff: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29285988
Allegedly, they are using their customers as botnets to resell traffic from residential IPs, mostly for scraping, through their other business "Oxylabs".
Re: NordVPN library and client code open-sourced
#8Can't read the words "Nord VPN" without hearing it in my head as Richard Coffin from The Plain Bagel. Which is ironic as previously I had trouble separating it from Critical Role thanks to the ad skits Sam Riegel used to do.
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#9Since there is so much criticism here of NordVPN (in general, not for open-sourcing), what are the VPNs that people like?
Re: NordVPN library and client code open-sourced
#10Since there is so much criticism here of NordVPN (in general, not for open-sourcing), what are the VPNs that people like?
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