After the “no US servers will connect” problem on 3.12.0, I found that if you log into it via nordaccount (OAuth) then it will let you connect to US servers again.
Today, their apt repo offered 3.12.1, and under that version, no US servers are available no matter how you log in. It goes back to logging you into another country and limiting you to that country’s servers for an entire day, and then picking another country, apparently, like 3.12 does if you use username/password.
I downgraded to 3.12.0 and now I can log in over nordaccount and use US servers.
This is a scary level of incompetence from a VPN provider. I’m probably going to set my subscription in the Play store to not automatically renew. There’s a no-refund policy after you’ve used it for 30 days, so I’m stuck with them for a while, but I’m switching VPNs again next year if they don’t cut the crap.
Edit: For those who don’t follow my blog, last time I contacted NordVPN, the tech support agent was unaware that systemd-journald exists and wanted me to run commands as root on my home folder.
the linux app is such trash i literally uninstalled and stopped using it a few months ago. moved to a combination of ovpn and my router forcing traffic across the VPN. not a single crash or issue with either one, vs literally daily crashes with the nord linux app.
Personally, I very much recommend updating. The previous update removed my ability to select specific servers on Lime - this new update seems to have fixed problems on my end.
Could it be the distro authors are the problem here and nord is playing catch up to varying code?
Debian 11. The “customer service” people keep telling me to do literally dozens of things. At one point, they wanted me to go clear back to a 3.10 from like 18 months ago or something, and 3.10 and 3.11 both have an issue where if my ISP craps out, then it hangs NordVPN and then nordvpnd can’t clear the iptables rules for the killswitch. Not a big problem (I could flush them, which is aggravating) except that the nordvpnd daemon also hangs and there’s no way to make it work again that I know of without rebooting at that point. if you try sudo systemctl restart nordvpnd, then it says that there’s an error with nordvpnd.socket.
Every release is broken and their customer service people have no idea what they’re doing. None at all. The only real upside is they brick everything for their other customers and then while everyone is like WTF, I actually have decent bandwidth for a couple of days until they figure out that apparently what you need to do is drop to an older version and disable teh apt repository for a while.
How do I upgrade when the upgrade takes away the client’s ability to connect to US servers because I picked a VPN company that’s operated by clowns who shouldn’t have been allowed to graduate Kindergarten?
Debian is one of the oldest and most widely used GNU/Linux distributions out there, and that’s BEFORE you consider all of the rest, which base off of it (including Ubuntu and Linux Mint) and inherit all of their underlying decisions like systemd and network configuration.
Of course, their Windows client is bad too. It hangs itself and can’t get back to work if you lose your internet connection, and then you have to reboot, and that’s on Windows, where they presumably have more customers.
The only advantage the Linux client seems to have over their incompetent Windows f***ery, is that NordVPN hasn’t accounted for how to pop up their spam into the Notifications on GNU/Linux.
They have a “notifications” setting which is “on” by default, but does not appear to do anything.
I wonder if it sits there and tries to go “Hey, did you know NordVPN has a password manager you can pay for? We hope you’re enjoying the VPN that has no bandwidth, random drop outs, and more client bugs than you can count! Give us your passwords!”.
Sure I’ve tried it on Windows, Mac, various GNU/Linux distros, an Android phone, and 3 ISPs and they all have these issues, but I’m sure it’s Debian’s fault because reasons. The truth is that NordVPN sucks and I’m in for another 11 months of this.
At least I subscribed with Play so I can cancel and not have a company in Panama continue billing me, as some people have mentioned.
That’s been my experience exactly. Killing the `nordvpnd` and flushing the tables is getting tiring. Would love to know a workaround because I’ve got one more year paid for which I might just abandon.
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