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What a joke NordVPN - Black Friday "sale" price more expensive than price ~1 day ago. Was literally going to improve our HomeNetwork with a VPN but then saw this.. (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Rice12Cake@alien.top to c/homenetworking@selfhosted.forum

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Yesterday I took a screenshot of their pricing like I always do for my purchases. Not sure if anyone else saw the advertisement on Reddit but today, I saw a Reddit advertisement announcing NordVPN Black Friday sales are available, so I checked and compared the pricing. Surprisingly, it was more expensive than yesterday. See the screenshot below:

So this was yesterdays pricing:

https://preview.redd.it/6jxvppnqwizb1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=2cb04c39797f9667bd1ff0cd1be7d770521d9425

And todays pricing:

https://preview.redd.it/4i3tawgswizb1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=335599c4e3edad2a40ac463230dd595767944bc7

Now I gotta find a different VPN now cause I dont trust NordVPN due to this..

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[–] Thy_OSRS@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not quite sure why everyone seems to be getting these types of 3rd party VPN services. What do you even need them for ? If you travel a lot and want to access content in other countries, sure why not, but if you're just in your home I don't see what meaningful benefit there is. You won't suddenly get faster internet, it's not inherently more secure and your IP is just your IP. I guess these companies it's demographic are for people who don't really know what they're doing, kinda like Anti Virus software back in the day?