lots of internal marketing and forced updates ... but it works , we hope . based on their practices it's a coin flip . also you are targeted by many banks and various web sites when you use this VPN . In other words it is much harder , if possible at all , to login to many sites . Especially financial institutions , which , you should login securely because many banks force users to use weak passwords . These sites then employ techniques like requiring multifactor authentication and add loops of captcha and recaptcha to force you to connect insecurely . In other words Nord does nothing to prevent discrimination against their paying customers , whom are simply trying to protect themselves ... again by paying Nord .