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Millions of people visit YouTube every day – which is why so many companies use it to advertise their products. Infuriatingly, this means adverts showing up halfway through a video has become commonplace. Fortunately, there’s a simple way to stop them from popping up, and this guide will show…
Crunchyroll is a popular anime streaming service that many subscribers like to access with a virtual private network (VPN). With a VPN for Crunchyroll, users can access the streaming platform from any country where it is not currently available. Unfortunately, Crunchyroll blocks most VPNs. It does this to prevent users from…
Privacy advocates from across Europe have called for a total ban on facial recognition for mass surveillance because of human rights concerns. Signed by over 55 rights groups working on the continent, their open letter builds on previous calls for tougher restrictions on biometric technology. Why was the letter…
More than a year ago we deployed Cloudflare Workers and static HTML cache on{‘ ‘} NordVPN’s homepage. Today, we can confidently say that this has saved us from rewriting a massive portion of our code and helped to improve our site performance substantially. In this article, I’ll shed light on the…
Security is our top priority; we’re always looking for new ways to protect our users. You can now help us to ensure the quality and safety of our services. With our product range rapidly expanding, we’re scaling up our bug bounty program to cover all Nord Security products. What is the…
At best, unwanted calls can be annoying. At worst, they can put you at risk and seriously disrupt your daily life. Sales companies, exes, scammers, bots, and stalkers can cause you a huge amount of stress if they get your phone number. Luckily, there’s a way to block a number on…
Every new NordVPN update arriving to the terminal is listed here. Keep track of what’s new and what’s got better in the NordVPN app for Linux. NordVPN 3.9.1 (latest) Don’t wait until you disconnect – rate your VPN connection anytime it’s active. Give feedback about your current connection by using the…
If there ever was a chink in NordVPN’s armor, it was Antarctica, the icy land of penguins and scientists. We had no servers on the coolest (literally and metaphorically) continent. Our users demanded that we fix this — and we did! Cold-resistant 10Gbps servers in Antarctica What’s the point of having…
Popular culture loves hackers. Some movies romanticize them while others depict them as secretive persons working silently behind computer screens. There are some accurate depictions of hackers in cinema, but there are also many exaggerations and misconceptions. So we decided to shed some light on the inaccuracies of these movies and…
Most software has had a bug at some point. But what if that bug has the potential to open backdoors for hackers to exploit? Worse still, what if the developers of the software have no idea it exists? Criminals can abuse these so-called zero day vulnerabilities for months or even years…