NordVPN
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
3warn against
Nov 12, 2025first mention
Oct 6, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“VPN'd traffic to a reputable provider (Nord, Express, or Proton)”
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“they are at least transparent about it”
Caveats and dissent
“In reality they're based in Panama, and their parent company is Dutch”
“NordVPN creeps me out with aggressive advertising practices”
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“NordVPN (and VPNs in general) should be outright banned.”
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All comments 14
“it's weird to use it as an example over better options”
“You're giving both Mullvad and Nord some payment information”
“In reality they're based in Panama, and their parent company is Dutch”
“NordVPN is based in Lithuania.”
>I love it when I buy a computer pre-installed with windows and it has a bunch of extra software bundled in like norton antivirus, dropbox, and opera. This has got to be satire. There's no way.
> What dev tools are you talking about here, that depends on remote Cloudflare IPs? It's never just been Cloudflare. There's even a blogpost from Vercel[1] about it when they had their exit nodes banned during the biggest outage last year: > This issue isn’t isolated to Vercel. Cloudflare, GitHub Pages, and BunnyCDN are also affected. [1] https://vercel.com/blog/update-on-spain-and-laliga-blocks-of-the-internet
“I remember Nord had a private p2p network”
“VPN'd traffic to a reputable provider (Nord, Express, or Proton)”
“NordVPN creeps me out with aggressive advertising practices”
“sees to have at least the bones of a decent solution”
“PIA and nordvpn work fine for me.”
“seems like NordVPN also has a page explaining that”
“they are at least transparent about it”
“NordVPN (and VPNs in general) should be outright banned.”