100 million downloads down the drain – why you can't trust this VPN

[admin]

There are so many different VPNs these days, but can a VPN with 100 million downloads really be that bad?

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[TonyN]

Subscribed to Nord VPN but never use it. No need to ever buy a separate VPN again since Firefox, Opera Browser, Microsoft's browser and Norton's internet 360 all have built in VPNS. For basic browsing that's good enough for me.

 

[MokaPot]

There are so many different VPNs these days, but can a VPN with 100 million downloads really be that bad?

100 million downloads down the drain – why you can't trust this VPN : Read more

To answer your question "yes", for a certain subset of users.

I'm in the USA, just a private citizen wanting to protect our devices from surveillance by our local ISP. Bought a 2 year subscription for Nord VPN. Worked as described for about 2 months then, after some number of updates, began to experience a problem - Nord reports "Lost connection to internet". Clearly the internet connection was not lost, the Nord clioent had lost connection to the Nord server and could not re-establish that connection.
I reported this Nord, they gave the MS runaround, remove; reinstall; retry. After a few weeks of that Nord informed me this was a know problem with Mac Big Sur and no ETA for a fix.

They also strongly recommended that I NOT downgrade to an older version of Nord. Not even sure how I would go about that.

My peeve:
1. This is a known problem
2. No ETA for a fix.
3. Nord continues to advertise the VPN service to Mac users with no disclaimers re Big Sur.

I did not ask Nord for a refund, it is well past the trial period, I simply asked that my subscription be extended by the amount of time it takes to develop and deploy a working fix. No joy trying that approach.

Moka Pot