Why don't you try installing Nord in a VM and monitoring traffic yourself, instead of taking low-quality blogspam Medium articles at face value?
If they're truly hijacking end user clients, why don't you point to the section of their open source client that's responsible for that?
https://github.com/NordSecurity/nordvpn-linux
Easy enough to prove.
Re:Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet
by internetter on Sunday June 18, 2023 @03:42PM
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I didn't even read the medium article, only the first one. That's what I quoted from. I agree, investigating traffic would be an excellent idea, but I don't intend on putting my credit card into nord's sketchy site (they apparently don't accept paypal)
They do accept paypal, I just checked their site.
Credit or debit card, Klarna, PayPal, Google Pay, Cryptocurrencies
Re:Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet
by internetter on Sunday June 18, 2023 @03:45PM
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Where? I'm presented with "Credit or debit" (direct input), AmazonPay, ACH Transfer, and Crypto https://imgur.com/G4j1DB8
Maybe possible it differs by country then:
Exactly, I'd love to see some proper proof other than "the parent company owns a residential proxy service"
Re:Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet
by internetter on Sunday June 18, 2023 @03:43PM
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Honestly, "the parent company owns a residential proxy service" is more than enough to deter me from the product.
If I were evil, I don't implement proxy feature on open Linux VPN client that geeks use, but just implement on closed Windows/Android client. Traffic monitoring is better.
Yeah I saw that part but it does not mean they are using the users from NordVPN for Oxylabs, there's nothing explicitly showing so.
I'll be honest, the fact that they're directly linked to Oxylabs alone is enough to deter me. I can't see how else they'd get 100 million+ residential customers on Oxylabs side... sure, I'm not going to go around claiming I have direct proof, but that's more than enough for me to not use their services.
Where else would they get the 100 million users?