> Unfortunately, because VPNs will have many requests being sent from one server, website hosts can recognize when a VPN is being used. A constant stream of requests coming from one computer’s IP address is, of course, unusual behavior.<p>> NordVPN claims to have found a way to make traffic from its service look normal, though admits that it may not always work perfectly. It also says the NordWhisper protocol may introduce more latency.<p>That reads like they're wheel-reinventing Tor, and one fears they'd use other users' computers as exit nodes. But then again this "journalist" might be a too typical one, one who doesn't know what they're talking about.<p>And on the other side of the block, a VPN user in a suppressive regime trying to connect to a regime-known VPN server will just get a spoofed "connection refused" from the regime's firewall. interestingly a P2P-system where they connect to a random home computer somewhere on the planet instead of known commercial VPN servers, plus a hard-to-detect protocol (pretend to be a game? Do games do P2P nowadays or do they always talk to a server?), might be able to get away with it.<p>Anyway, the page doesn't give much detail either: <a href="https://nordvpn.com/blog/nordwhisper-protocol/" rel="nofollow">https://nordvpn.com/blog/nordwhisper-protocol/</a>