I wanted to watch some football world cup highlights video from a japanese TV channel site, which didnt work with Proton, but did with Nord, so I have been with them since then.

This was during the 2022 WC though, so maybe Proton is better nowadays.

I think they got better, I'm watching geofenced Japanese content all the time with Proton.

In the past I occasionally had to select a different server from whatever it picks by default but I've always been able to watch my content.