1 yr. ago • 93%

Nord VPN tv commercials are incredibly misleading

www.ispot.tv NordVPN TV Spot, 'Cyber Zen'

Check out NordVPN's 30 second TV commercial, 'Cyber Zen' from the Web Services industry. Keep an eye on this page to learn about the songs, characters, and celebrities appearing in this TV commercial. Share it with friends, then discover more great TV commercials on iSpot.tv

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

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ispot.tv is on one of my DNS blacklists, it seems to be an advertising service?

Many VPNs have built in traffic filtering that does block common malware, phishing, and tracking domains/IPs.

Their advertising claims still do get a bit ridiculous though.

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- Yeah, they’re not completely telling the truth, but they aren’t exactly lying either.
  
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  They literally aren't saying anything. There are no verbs in this advertisement; the narrator is speaking in noun phrases, not sentences. So he's literally saying nothing.
  
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- A bit is a little understatement.
  
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Plot twist, practically ALL advertisements are misleading

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Good luck trying to explain to normies what a vpn is in 30 seconds.

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- A VPN does this, but for your internet connection:
  
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  It lets my internets 69??
  
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- Internet providers, governments and criminals can see what you are doing online, With VPN they can't anymore.
  
  Thats basically it.
  
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  ...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.
  
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  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.
  
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  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
  
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- You can pretend to be somewhere else to watch some geo locked content
  
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  MLB.TV thinks I'm from Seattle so I can watch games that would usually be blacked out, works great
  
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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.

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They're probably referring to their DNS ad and malicious domain filter.

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- Came to say this. It's a feature they provide so they aren't falsely advertising but it's also nothing special.
  
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All Nord VPN ads are.

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- All ~~Nord VPN~~ ads are.
  
  FTFY
  
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  Eh. Proton is Pretty honest
  
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I thought the 'security' angle was just a smokescreen anyway. Isn't it actually for accessing region-locked media?

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- It’s for torrents.
  
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  VPNs are great for avoiding the nastygrams that your ISP forwards to you from media companies. They get sent to some company that doesn't care about US laws instead, and probably laughed at before being deleted
  
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  Permanently Deleted
  
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- I use my VPN on public networks for additional security
  
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  Nowadays everything is encrypted by default. You don't get additional security with a VPN.
  
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- I think it keeps your isp from knowing what websites you're going to?
  
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- 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.
  
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  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.
  
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY

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- Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY
  
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  
  I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
  
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They used to say NordVPN would boost your game's latency in their ads so I'm not surprised

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- Technically the truth
  
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  Technically? This irony or am I missing something?
  
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I cancelled my subscription once all my water turned to jello

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