NordVPN vs PureVPN

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.

PureVPN has a credible BVI-jurisdiction no-logs policy for VPN traffic, but Facebook Pixel is explicitly listed as an in-app analytics tool (not just a website cookie), the optional Dark Web Monitoring feature hands your Social Security number, passport number, and credit card to a third-party breach firm called SpyCloud, data retention is vaguely described as lasting 'until you remain a subscriber', and a roster of marketing platforms including UseInsider, MixPanel, and Facebook Pixel all receive data about how you use the app.