My opinion …
I contributed to the discussion cited by Johnex. I’m not affiliated with any VPN service provider but I’m simply an owner of some routers (one of them it’s a GL.inet) using the OpenWrt OS.
I was very happy with NordVPN, but not now. It’s a fact that the number of their servers is very high, that their OpenVPN service works very well (at least it did for me) and that they provide access to all major streaming services that otherwise could not be reached from outside of specific regions / countries (this is my first need; I’m not so concerned with strict privacy issues, because I think that, for my needs, NordVPN can provide at least a discrete/good level of privacy with every protocol they support, but this is only my opinion).
But … It’s also a fact that they in some way hid security problems they had and most of all they don’t provide a standard Wireguard solution. About the latter point, I talked with their support center many times and they continue to say the same things: 1. their NordLynx solution is more secure than the standard one; 2. maybe in future they will provide a solution for OpenWrt routers’ owners (but they don’t provide any ETA).
I’m very disappointed for the lack of a standard Wireguard solution: first of all because I chose NordVPN and paid a long term subscription thinking I was getting one of the best VPN providers; today, in my opinion, their service cannot be considered one of the best because it’s missing a solution for a standard and widespread protocol as Wireguard is.
Secondly, Wireguard it’s a very fast protocol able to make my PRESENT ROUTER perform up to 8 times faster downloads (maybe more) than OpenVPN. Why should I buy a more expensive/powerful router (able to guarantee better OpenVPN performance) because my VPN provider is not able to provide (not to me but to an entire community of OpenWrt users) a standard solution for a standard protocol?
Now, following the suggestions of Johnex and after comparing different VPN providers, I’m using Mullvad. Their service is great, at least for my needs, and above all they provide a standard Wireguard solution working very well. If I hadn’t done the mistake to pay a long time subscription with NordVPN, I think that I could go on with them or other similar VPN providers indefinitely, even if their service is more expensive than NordVPN. For now the only thing I / we can do is to push on NordVPN to provide a standard Wireguard solution; I’m doing it whenever and wherever (Facebook, support center, …) I can.
Bye. LP