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Pros
Pro Not based in USA
Even with profuse gag orders, anonymity is protected due to the complexities of international law and US rules for admitting evidence.
Pro No logs are kept
This aspect of their service is fairly straightforward - no logs are kept, whatsoever.
Pro Specific torrenting servers
Nord offers specific servers for P2P sharing, making both that process as well as browsing servers safer and faster.
Pro Double VPN
Double VPN is a solution where you traffic uses two hops and is encrypted at both nodes. It gives a double security for the users.
Pro Compatibility
NordVPN VPN service can be used on every device that is compatible to connect to a VPN.
Pro Servers in 40+ countries
Server locations are nicely spread and covers many users. NordVPN constantly adds new servers to their service.
Pro Outside of Five, Nine, and Fourteen Eyes countries
Located outside of countries intent on degrading your privacy.
Cons
Con When breach happens, they wait a few months before telling customers about it
NordVPN said it found out about the breach a “few months ago,” but the spokesperson said the breach was not disclosed until today because the company wanted to be “100% sure that each component within our infrastructure is secure.”
So instead of allowing their customers to do their own damage limitation, they left their customers in the dark and continued to expose them to a breach they weren't sure they had fully contained.
Con Basically impossible to connect with Amazon.com
Sometimes it loads a page on Amazon, but probably 90% of the time, it fails. Must disable Nord to do any shopping on the site.
Con P2P traffic only allowed on certain servers
If you transmit any kind of BitTorrent P2P traffic on certain servers, all of your active connections will be automatically terminated and you will be transferred onto a different server where file-sharing traffic is "allowed". This is not mentioned in the Terms of Service, and is only vaguely mentioned in the FAQ: "Yes, we allow P2P traffic on certain servers. The server list that allows it: Romania, Russia, Sweden, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Canada."
This suggests that NordVPN might do live deep packet inspection on your VPN traffic in order to determine if it's BitTorrent traffic or not.
Con Speed flucuates
Most of the time download speeds are great, however when rush hours occur (for instance, during the weekend), speed drops drastically.
Con Linux configuration is a hassle
Which is just laziness for the devs. Setting up a homebrew client works on Arch.
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