# NordVPN NordVPN is a [proprietary](proprietary.md) predatory [scam](scam.md) service that steals personal data while trying to [market](marketing.md) itself as a "[VPN](vpn.md) for [security](security.md) and [privacy](privacy.md)"; it is useless at best and highly harmful to society at worst. It's a business similar to that of e.g. [antiviruses](antivirus.md), it builds on [fear culture](fear_culture.md), privacy hysteria and lack of technological education, abusing people who have little to no knowledge of technology, stealing not just their money, but also their data, computing power etc. NordVPN furthermore utilizes all the unethical [capitalist](capitalism.md) practice to make society as bad as possible, notably aggressive advertising, [brainwashing](brainwashing.md) and promotion of fear culture -- [YouTube](youtube.md) is infamous to have NordVPN propaganda inserted into every single video.