I am the top comment on that post and you got the whole situation backwards and are thereby just spewing FUD with the implication in your comment :/. The idea

I am the top comment on that post and you got the whole situation backwards and are thereby just spewing FUD with the implication in your comment :/. The idea was never that NordVPN was reselling the network connections of NordVPN customers; it was always that they were, on their backend, originating NordVPN customers traffic from maybe-sketchily-sourced IP addresses. Here is a paragraph I wrote a couple years ago on the topic of how centralized VPN companies manage to bypass blocks by content providers (such as Netflix). > One VPN company that actually seems to do "well" at this is NordVPN: they've even managed to provide access to Disney+! Someone did a deep analysis of how this worked a while back (an article which has since been deleted, weirdly, but a copy can be found on the Internet Archive). They are "linked closely with a Lithuanian data mining company called Tesonet" which also runs Oxynet, which in turn advertises itself to have "32M+ residential proxies…100% anonymous proxies from all over the globe with zero IP blocking", which the author of that analysis believes is how NordVPN is originating their traffic... and how did they get all of those IP addresses? The contention was that they seem to be stealing them, convincing random products to embed malware that attaches them to the Oxynet essentially-a-botnet. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664692 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664692 http://web.archive.org/web/20191128170008/https://medium.com/@derek./how-is-nordvpn-unblocking-disney-6c51045dbc30 http://web.archive.org/web/20191128170008/https://medium.com...