payton ↑
@payton
What's your preferred VPN? I've been using NordVPN for a while, but I don't have a good reason. My partner wants to get a VPN, and I told him I'd research for him. This is me researching for him 🤡
24 replies
0 recast
0 reaction
Carter | 🏳️🌈
@incarterseyes.eth
None. I was super pro vpn, then something switched. Also Nord was hacked in 2018, never disclosed it until someone brought it up on Twitter in 2019. https://www.techradar.com/news/whats-the-truth-about-the-nordvpn-breach-heres-what-we-now-know Ads and wording are also always super deceptive around VPNs
1 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
payton ↑
@payton
I've been quite ignorant with my VPN selection (mainly because I didn't care that much). Heard bad opinions about Nord, but I didn't know about this breach. Was this event what switched you? Or is there another reason why you don't see a need for VPNs?
1 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
Carter | 🏳️🌈
@incarterseyes.eth
I tried to let a creator know who had huge Nord ad placements in their videos what happened with the breach and that they should re-evaluate promoting Nord and got back something along the lines of "well, they pay us to promote their product and we don't want to jeopardize our relationship with them"
1 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
Carter | 🏳️🌈
@incarterseyes.eth
Plus, the wording that they use for all of their ad placements makes it sound like it's the ONLY thing that can protect you from a hack. there is also this article that switched my brain https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative.html
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction