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Should probably switch to qbtorrent. What VPN are you using?
NordVPN. Is that a good one?
I hope this is a sarcasm, lol
It's not. I need more knowledge.
Ah, well my apologies, I made the incorrect assumption that it was. I'm headed to bed at the moment, so I apologize for the short explanation, I'll try to come back with better facts and sources, but the short of it is that when you use a VPN, you're effectively shifting trust from your ISP to your VPN provider. Trust that your data is not being mishandled, misused, is secured, and is not being used for further profits. If a VPN provider logs heavily and has a police raid or a subpoena, your data is still freely accessible. In all fairness, in using NordVPN, your traffic is still encrypted over the network, further securing you from attacks, but they tend to lean very log-heavy, and if I remember right, have had some security issues in the past, though don't quote me on that, I want to come back more researched. Generally speaking, the consensus on Lemmy has been in favor of Mullivad since they log nothing and can even take anynomous payment, on top of being a very affordable VPN. Sorry again for my incorrect assumption regarding sarcasm, I'm used to a lot of hardcore privacy nerds on here. You're better off with NordVPN than without is the fact of the matter, and good on you if you're making use of it 😁
NordVPN has a no logs policy that they've been third party audited about multiple times though?
https://nordvpn.com/blog/nordvpn-no-logs-audit-2022/
Well I'll be damned, I trusted the hivemind on privacy communities on Lemmy and was needlessly jaded against a good service. I'll stick my foot in my mouth.
Despite what the hiveminds on lemmy/reddit piracy forums think because of all the advertising Nord does, it's actually a really great vpn. It lacks port forwarding, but it has one of the best audited no logs policies, accepts crypto and cash, and is on the very small list of VPN providers that Arch Wiki has a page about.
I would say nord is not considered privacy respecting. At least not in the way things like mullvad or proton are?
Will nord or express work for pirating yes, are they actually private, we don't really know.
Companies like mullvad offer no logging vpn whereas nord makes no such promise.
I honestly don't know too much about nord but i think that's the gyst of it
Don't listen to those other comments till they bring a source for their claim that nordvpn logs.
Here's a source that NordVPN has a no logs policy that they've been third party audited about multiple times: https://nordvpn.com/blog/nordvpn-no-logs-audit-2022/