A VPN isn’t going to protect you from malware or trackers. I’m not sure how they can get away with this marketing.
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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.
ispot.tvis 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.
Yeah, they’re not completely telling the truth, but they aren’t exactly lying either.
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.
They’re probably referring to their DNS ad and malicious domain filter.
Came to say this. It’s a feature they provide so they aren’t falsely advertising but it’s also nothing special.
All Nord VPN ads are.
All
Nord VPNads are.FTFY
Eh. Proton is Pretty honest
I thought the ‘security’ angle was just a smokescreen anyway. Isn’t it actually for accessing region-locked media?
It’s for torrents.
And it’s for the criminals you’re trying to protect from. Worked IT for a while and a lot of attacks come from behind these popular VPN services now and they do nothing to help stop the attacks. Wouldn’t be surprise to find out these major services are funded by other governments to snoop on other countries at this point.
Plot twist, practically ALL advertisements are misleading
Good luck trying to explain to normies what a vpn is in 30 seconds.
A VPN does this, but for your internet connection:
Internet providers, governments and criminals can see what you are doing online, With VPN they can’t anymore.
Thats basically it.
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.
If a VPN is big enough, you can’t really do that sort of correlation due to the level of traffic involved. I guess that would work for visitors to https://www.woman-inflates-a-balloon-and-sits-on-it-and-pops-it.com/, but wouldn’t work at all for google.com
…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.
They used to say NordVPN would boost your game’s latency in their ads so I’m not surprised
Technically the truth
Technically? This irony or am I missing something?
Using a VPN generally increases your latency. Latency is…bad. They are advertising a negative consequence as a positive feature, banking on the target market not having enough understanding of the terms in play.
Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You might understand it better but the frog is dead.
