r/nordvpn

I have a subscription to use on the rare occasions I need to access content that's not available in my country. This happens once or twice a year so I remove NordVPN outside those occasions to avoid it sitting in the background, nagging me about my privacy and security. Thanks, but I'm quite OK with all that.

Today I installed it again and along comes "dark web monitor" and "threat protection", without an option to not install them. Lucky me, I can turn them off after diving into settings.

This is a rant, and hopefully someone at NordVPN will pick it up because the "Feedback" on the website mysteriously fails when I click the "Submit" button. "Something went wrong. Please try again later" - makes me angry.

I DO NOT WANT THOSE OPTIONS. I DO NOT WANT THEM INSTALLED. I HAVE UNINSTALLED NORDVPN AND I WILL NOT RENEW MY SUBSCRIPTION WITHOUT AN OPTION TO NOT INSTALL UNWANTED FEATURES.

Not just "install them but allow me to turn them off" - I don't want them on my computer AT ALL!

There are other VPN providers and I'm happy to cancel this one and migrate. Stop turning yourself into Norton/McAfee/Trend Micro and trying to be all things. We want a VPN. That's all. Feel free to promote your other products but don't ever install them without my permission.

I'm heading off now to investigate that other product that I'm not allowed to mention.

Mods, FWIW I tried the support page at the website, and I tried the feedback page as well. There's a slim chance they might glance at posts here from time to time. Perhaps it'll help someone else.

I’ve been using Nord for about four years. It has always worked great for me, until a couple weeks ago. Now it is so slow — no matter which located I’m connected to or which WiFi connection I’m on — that it’s unusable. I can’t even download a 5MB file without it timing out, and video playback is out of the question. What the hell happened? I don’t think this is user error.

I realized recently that I trust AI tools with information I'd never willingly share on social media. With social media, I think most of us already understand the tradeoff. They track engagement, build ad profiles, collect behavior data, and keep a pretty long memory of everything we do online. It's invasive, but also expected at this point.

But AI tools somehow feel more personal and private. I caught myself sharing things I'd never post publicly anywhere — work ideas, random late-night questions, screenshots or private thoughts.

That feeling of privacy made me start wondering what actually happens to all that data. That sent me into a rabbit hole reading about data transparency, training data concerns, user consent, and retention policies. And honestly, I came out of it trusting neither side very much.

While social media platforms probably have the worst reputation overall, AI companies operate on a completely different level. A chatbot conversation can reveal far more about someone than a few likes or follows ever could. Social media companies may know what we click, but AI companies could end up knowing how we think.

So which one do you actually trust more with your data?

Been using NordVpn for few months. Having many kind of issues. Using Vpn for Netflix while living in asia. The Vpn also from same country where I lives in. But always shows I am in the Us from netflix apps. Also on Rakuten, it shows I am in Eu. Went to Chat support and the answer always said. "The website currently not supported by NordVpn" what is Vpn in first place?

So I've been having a problem recently, in that I find myself unable to join online games or discord sessions while connected to Nord.

My current workaround is to

1. Disable the VPN

2. Join the call or game session

3. Reenable the VPN once joined

Obviously this is less than ideal for a multitude of reasons.

Thus far, I've tried to

A. Install the latest version of Nord

B. Run a diagnostic through Nord

C. Submit that number to the support team (Entirely useless, btw)

D. Reset the app through the diagnostics tab

E. (just for good measure) Run an antimalware scan of my PC with no results

Any help would be appreciated

I am in the UK and trying to access a UK website.

I keep getting the following message...

'Restricted access, sorry you cannot visit our site from your current location'.

I have my vpn set to the UK. I have tried with my android phone and my iPad. What am I doing wrong?

I'm somehow unable to connect to the daemon from the GUI on Fedora 44 utilizing SF (San Francisco) public WiFi at any library. The VPN connection does work on my Pixel 10 running Android 16 so I'm wondering what could be blocking that. All my IPV4 and IPV6 connection settings are set to automatic

I’ve noticed that the more privacy-focused my setup becomes, the more websites start treating me like a suspicious user.

Use a VPN? Extra CAPTCHA checks.
Block trackers? Certain sites partially break.
Log in from a privacy focused browser? Suddenly, you’re flagged for “unusual activity.”

I understand why some of this happens. A lot of fraud prevention systems rely on signals like IP reputation, device consistency, and behavioral patterns. But it still creates a pretty strange situation where regular people trying to reduce tracking through VPNs, stricter browser settings, or tracker blocking end up getting treated as higher risk users alongside actual malicious activity.

And honestly, I think this slowly creates a stigma around privacy tools, where normal attempts to reduce tracking start looking inherently suspicious. I can also see why less technical users eventually give up on stricter privacy settings if every other website starts throwing warnings, CAPTCHA checks, or login friction at them.

Using a VPN, blocking trackers, or limiting data collection shouldn’t automatically look suspicious. I think for a lot of people, it’s simply a response to how aggressive modern tracking, profiling, and user scoring has become.

What makes the whole thing ironic is that many privacy tools exist because people are uncomfortable with how much passive tracking happens online in the first place. Yet the moment you try to limit that visibility, some systems start treating the behavior itself as risky.

There’s obviously a balance here - fraud prevention matters too. But I do think privacy focused behavior should become more normalized instead of being seen as something only “suspicious” users do.

I'm interested if others here noticed the same thing or have been getting hit with extra verifications just because you were using stricter browser settings, a VPN, or similar?

I'm swapping my internet at home so using my phones internet (EE UK 4g) connection for the time being with tethered and hotspot both working. Without Nord connected, everything works fine - 50 to 90 down and 5 - 10 up. Connect Nord and within a few mins, the connection is lost. Doesn't matter what country I connect to, it just stops unless I keep refreshing it.

I've read it could be a DNS issue, but when I add google as the default (8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4) Nord doesn't remember it and the fields are wiped.

Any ideas what else I can try? Got two more days min of using the phone and it's driving me nuts.

I'm getting bombarded with notifications and emails about this static IP discount. I've got 6 emails this year about it, and I've had to dismiss notifications multiple times on EACH of my 4 devices that have NordVPN on them. And they keep coming back after I get rid of them.

This is ridiculous. Please stop. I'm NOT interested.

I've got several computers running a combination of NordVPN + Tailscale. I use Tailscale for remote access to my home network when I'm out of the house, and also for remote controlling a few PCs I've got from within the house. The entire setup was working great until upgrading to 8.2.2.0 and now the situation is a bit funky and has persisted into version 8.2.3.0.

On Tailscale it looks like my PCs are connected, but they're really not reachable. Nord is crowding out Tailscale on the 100.xx IP range it seems, but I'm a bit of a networking idiot so that's just my best guess from digging around some. I turned off Nord meshnet which can occupy the same IP range but that didn't fix it. On my desktop whitelisting Tailscale + a few of my apps (Rustdesk for example) on split tunneling works... but only after I disconnect from Nord and then reconnect. I have no idea but that works and allows my computer to stay connected to Tailscale.

But my living room PC won't stay connected if Nord is up. If Nord is down then it's fine. For a variety of reasons I always want my living room PC behind a VPN, and I also want to be able to remote access it from outside my home + from other rooms because it's a bit of a pain in the ass to use. This all worked 100% fine until the most recent update.

There was another thread about this here, but OP deleted for some reason: https://www.reddit.com/r/nordvpn/comments/1t5dr3i/comment/olkfiru/?context=3

I know on my Linux machine running Nord + Tailscale is a bit spotty and on my Android phone it's literally one or the other. That's all fine but it messing with Tailscale on my Windows devices where they once played perfectly nicely together has really been bothering me the past week or so.

Title says it all, I installed nordvpn yesterday, and somehow a lot of websites fail to load. As soon as I flip the vpn off, they're loading. Can someone explain if this is a common issue and how i can fix it?

I already emailed their support and they offered me a 10% discount for a 2 year plan, but it still comes out to around 100+ NZD, which feels a bit expensive compared to other VPNs. Are there any legit deals, promos, resellers, student discounts, regional pricing tricks, or seasonal sales I should wait for? Or is this basically as cheap as it gets?

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a fix for a problem I've been dealing with for the past few days. I noticed my PC was becoming extremely sluggish and unresponsive. After some digging, I found that nordvpn-service.exe was constantly hitting my disk with 50-70 MB/s of write operations.

What I tried (that didn't work):

• Turning off Threat Protection.
• Disabling Meshnet.
• Disconnecting from the VPN.
• Resetting the app and disabling diagnostics.

What I found out: I opened the Windows Resource Monitor and filtered for nordvpn-service.exe. I saw that it was aggressively writing to two specific files:

1. C:\ProgramData\NordVPN\Analytics\NordVPN.db-journal
2. C:\ProgramData\NordVPN\Analytics\NordVPN.db

It seems the analytics database got corrupted or stuck in a loop.

The Solution:

1. Stop all NordVPN services (via Task Manager or Services.msc).
2. Navigate to C:\ProgramData\NordVPN\.
3. Delete the entire Analytics folder.
4. Restart your computer.

As soon as I did this, the disk usage dropped to 0-1%, and my system was back to normal. The app will recreate the folder if needed, but the constant disk thrashing has stopped.

Hope this helps anyone else experiencing sudden system lag!

Accidentally didn't leave enough money in my account to cover my monthly subscription, rapidly put it in there, but no I'm instantly suspended.

Fine, I'll login and do it manually.

Oh, weird. There is no way to set up my payment again, and also the option to renew monthly when I hit renew has disappeared.

So, I finally give up, use a different email, oh, wonder! The monthly option has reappeared in the UI, and it's 10% cheaper than I've been paying!

Impressive work NordVPN, you should be better than this.

About two weeks ago they launched it. I don't use the extension, but thought it was interesting

>NordVPN has introduced an AI Voice Detector feature to its Chrome browser extension. The tool listens to audio from active tabs in real time and determines whether voices are human or AI-generated. It operates entirely on the user's device, without sending audio to external servers.

>Once enabled in the NordVPN Chrome extension, the detector captures audio from the active tab without disrupting playback.... The detection focuses on acoustic properties rather than the spoken content.

MLBTV has cracked down on NordVPN servers and only a few work

Will a dedicated IP get around this issue?