Steve Bruce admits his side escaped a beating thanks to a late penalty award against Spurs.
The Magpies had failed to register a single shot on target before Peter Bankes went through the process of VAR and an in-ground screen check after Eric Dier's block was deemed a handball.
Callum Wilson stepped up to bury the penalty and United scraped an unlikely draw.
Bruce said: "We’ve got away with one. It’s fallen for us today, but I really think we should all query these new rules and ask who makes them, as well as look at the way we’re now executing them as well.
“I thought VAR was going to come in for clear and obvious decisions.
"It’s ludicrous, and for me, it ruins the spectacle of the Premier League.
"If we’re not careful, all we’re going to talk about is VAR and VAR decisions.
"For me, that’s not right."
Bruce feels that United got lucky because of the modern interpretation of a handball.
He said: “The handball rules have existed for maybe 100 years.
"If it’s a deliberate and obvious handball, or its denying a goalscoring opportunity, then yes.
"But I don’t even think Dier was looking at the ball. I’m not a big lover of it at all.
"We’ve got away with one today, and I should be in favour of it, but I know it’ll bite me eventually, and that’s wrong.”
VAR has dominated the weekend's Premier League action with Manchester United benefiting from a similar incident at Brighton.
Bruce said: "We saw it in Saturday’s games too – we don’t seem to be talking about the game at all, all we seem to be talking about is VAR incidents.
"It’s a nonsense.
"If you’re going to jump for the ball like Dier did, then your arms are going to be up. It’s impossible not to jump like that.
“If you look at a high jumper, then the first thing that goes up is their arm.
"That’s what gives them the momentum.
"It’s impossible to jump without putting your arms up to give you some balance.
“It’s a whole nonsense – the whole VAR thing, and the handball law in particular, this year is a total nonsense. Maybe we can all get together and stop it because we’re ruining the spectacle.
“We’ve got away with one today, but it could easily have been one at our end.
"There was a big claim for one against Jamaal, and when you see it he’s actually in an unnatural position because he’s got his arms by his side! It’s a nonsense of a ruling.”
