Google vs NordVPN
Based on our analysis, NordVPN is the more privacy-respecting choice overall.
BACK →| Category | NordVPN | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | D · 26/100 | C+ · 62/100 |
| What they collect | Concern (8) | Mixed (65) |
| Who they share it with | Mixed (42) | Mixed (58) |
| What you can do | Mixed (58) | Mixed (68) |
| What they promise | Mixed (55) | Mixed (60) |
In plain English — Google
Google tracks almost everything you do online — every search, email, location, video, and website visit — across all their products and millions of third-party sites, then uses it to sell ads. They do give you unusually good tools to review and delete your data, but the defaults collect everything.
View full analysis →In plain English — NordVPN
NordVPN genuinely doesn't log your VPN activity — that part of the privacy pitch holds up — but outside the tunnel it runs a large advertising and analytics infrastructure full of US-based trackers, shares data within a broad corporate group, markets to you for a year after you cancel, and retains billing records for a decade.
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