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> Aside from its link to Oxylabs, Tesonet also advertises itself as a creator and investor of a number of online services, including NordVPN, Hostinger and othe
by internetter 3y ago
> Aside from its link to Oxylabs, Tesonet also advertises itself as a creator and investor of a number of online services, including NordVPN, Hostinger and others.
Where else would they get the 100 million users?
- KomoD 3y agoYeah I saw that part but it does not mean they are using the users from NordVPN for Oxylabs, there's nothing explicitly showing so.
- girvo 3y agoI'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.
- wswope 3y agoWhy 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 https://github.com/NordSecurity/nordvpn-linux Easy enough to prove.
- KomoD 3y agoExactly, I'd love to see some proper proof other than "the parent company owns a residential proxy service"
- internetter 3y agoHonestly, "the parent company owns a residential proxy service" is more than enough to deter me from the product.
- internetter 3y agoI 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)
- KomoD 3y agoThey do accept paypal, I just checked their site. Credit or debit card, Klarna, PayPal, Google Pay, Cryptocurrencies
- internetter 3y agoWhere? I'm presented with "Credit or debit" (direct input), AmazonPay, ACH Transfer, and Crypto https://imgur.com/G4j1DB8 https://imgur.com/G4j1DB8
- KomoD 3y agoMaybe possible it differs by country then: https://i.imgur.com/fTtdOfR.png https://i.imgur.com/fTtdOfR.png
- fomine3 3y agoIf 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.