how's it going everybody welcome back today we're going to be comparing expressvpn and ipvanish so
that you can hopefully figure out which one could be the best choice for you and your situation now
i'm going to be looking into the privacy policy speed streaming and taunting capabilities as well
security features so you know i'm gonna try to keep it as brief as possible and if you're
looking for more information on these vpns you'll find that uh in-depth review of each of these vpns
of course in the description down below as well as links to special deals and discounts if you'd like
to just get straight to that so starting with the privacy policy of expressvpn now expressvpn you
know it almost requires no introduction when it comes to the privacy policy of course they
do not collect any uh identifying information anything that can be linked back to the user
and uh that is definitely proven in their numerous independent audits which prove their no logs claim
and uh yeah they are definitely available there are pdfs available on the website if
you're interested in taking a look at them but i think the best evidence that their no loss policy
is actually uh proven is through the an andre karloff investigation when in turkey in 2017
the turkish government seized an expressvpn server and they were still not able to uh extract
any sort of information out of the server thanks to their true nalox policy and of course
uh the ram based servers rather than physical drive servers so uh the expressvpn is probably
you know one of the best vpns when it comes to user anonymity just upholding the privacy policy
and user anonymity of their user so great stuff overall expressvpn now if we take a look at the
privacy policy of ipvanish unfortunately they do claim of course that they don't collect monitor
or log any traffic or use of its virtual private network service on any platform but unfortunately
uh there are no independent audits to prove uh that they uh actually don't collect anything so
we can only take their word for it unfortunately um there's nothing in their privacy policy that
looks particularly off they never had any sort of data breaches it's just that we can only take
their word for it without an independent audit unfortunately though it's worth noting that since
ipvanish is based in the united states it can be pressured to cooperate with the government to
provide logs and that's exactly what happened in 2016. however there was a criminal case here and
it seemed like ipvanish were definitely logging some information on their users now i'm pretty
much glad that the criminal was caught there was definitely some serious criminal activity going on
and it's definitely a good thing that the criminal was caught and you know just keep
in mind even with expressvpn if they have any information to provide to authorities in order
to catch a criminal it doesn't matter what their privacy policy uh states they will cooperate with
governments to bring a criminal to justice no matter what their privacy policy states they will
go against it if it means catching a criminal especially serious criminals like the one in
ipvanish's case here so yeah this is just something for you guys to keep in mind
so it's all about of course whether or not these vpn providers log information and it seems like
in ipvanish the case to some extent they do log some identifying information uh and it can
be provided to government authorities once it is asked of them so and also keep in mind that their
servers are running on physical hard drives rather than ram drives so that kind of hammers home the
idea that they do have servers with physical drives that can store information unlike with
expressvpn where they're running their servers in ram disk mode which pretty much means that
there's just no physical drive to store data in and that whatever little data stored on these ram
drives will be deleted with every machine reboot which tend to happen every so often okay so with
regards to speed i have noticed that of course nordvpn both nordvpn and ipvanish are pretty quick
and especially the ipvanish now has a wireguard protocol and that really helps them out with the
speed however still with the wireguard protocol i still notice speed drops somewhere around between
15 and 25 percent uh in the download speed so you know usually it's uh between 10 and
20 percent at worst when it comes to a premium vpns and this is exactly what expressvpn can do
really you can keep the uh download speed drops below that you're still going to be able to
keep more than 50 60 70 percent of your download speed whereas with other vpns um
you know such as ipvanish here even though it's pretty quick you could reach up to 40 50 percent
uh download speed drops so just keep that in mind so overall it's safe to say that expressvpn
is definitely the faster option here uh and especially here using the best performing protocol
which will be the lightweight udp protocol in ipvanish's case that would be the wireguard
protocol now with regards to unblocking streaming services and geo restrictions this is probably
going to be the biggest distinction between these two vpns and when using ipvanish as you can tell
now you know surprisingly enough i was able to actually unblock the american netflix library
as you can tell here get on up was uh showing get on up is only available in the states but i
was able to unblock the us netflix library with ipvanish however i was not able to unblock hulu
amazon prime hbo max and yeah these are also american based libraries and
i was still by the way on uh ipvanish when i uh loaded these in but i'm gonna go ahead
and refresh these again and let's see if i can get access to these services using expressvpn
so with hulu here i should be able to play the show it's already in so as you can tell we are
actually getting in there hbo max is loading in i'm just going to go ahead and refresh again just
in case and with amazon prime as you can tell it's not giving me that notification that says
it's not available or the notification that says it's recognizing that i'm using a proxy or a vpn
we definitely unblocked boruto right here i'm able to play it we unblocked hulu and we unblocked hbo
max and we can definitely unblock uh netflix uh us though with netflix us it's specifically uh
advised by expressvpn that you use the um let me show you guys so that'll be the atlanta server the
la3 and miami 2 servers specifically because uh netflix is actively cracking down on vpn traffic
and that'll be the same with ipvanish if you're trying to unblock the netflix us library you
definitely want to pick the appropriate servers the new york server seems to work just fine with
ipvanish when unblocking us netflix so keep that in mind uh hbo max is taking a little bit longer
i'm not exactly sure i might have to open up a new page so let's just go ahead and do that
and uh we'll wait up and see what happens oh there we go yeah so immediately unblocked i
i probably just had to open a new page now when it comes to security and uh features
okay we got expressvpn and uh ipvanish both of which i would say are pretty bare bones
when it comes to security features so okay we've got first of all a handful of protocols uh you've
got the kill switch which will stop your internet connection if the vpn disconnects unexpectedly
we also have that in ipvanish both vpns support 256-bit encryption so standard stuff and they
all have ipv6 dns and web rtc leak prevention so nothing to worry here of course when it comes to
china i would definitely stick with expressvpn ipvanish themselves admit it on their website
that they cannot uh function in china they they're the vpn that just does not work in
china so keep that in mind with expressvpn we do have a handful of protocols just stick
to the best performing protocol which will be lightweight udp in this case and split
tunneling of course will allow you to choose which applications are routed through the vpn and which
are not so uh with ipvanish if we go ahead and go to the settings here uh we have wireguard which
is definitely the best performing protocol if we switch to openvpn you'll be able to select ports
and uh take this option right here if you would like which will also uh change your port to
something that's a little bit more uh obfuscation friendly so it's scram scramble adds obfuscation
capability on open vpn allowing you to bypass network traffic sensors which aim to detect usage
of a vpn and block it so obfuscation is turned on by default on expressvpn and it functions no
matter the country you're in uh just download the application and it'll work whereas with ipvanish
although even if you use a scramble open vpn traffic it still won't be able to unblock
uh the great firewall of china or bypass the great firewall of china so keep that in mind we don't
have split telling that's about it when it comes to security features again just the kill switch
dns and ipv6 leak blocking as well as a handful of protocols that's about it really now with regards
to pricing uh you're gonna notice that this is the best we can get right here with expressvpn
so if you guys are interested in the one year plan which will give you three extra months for free
you'll find that in description down below with ipvanish it's priced a little bit differently
so it's a yearly sixty dollars so five dollars per month expressvpn would be
a dollar 67 more expensive than ipvanish but i definitely think it's well worth the investment
right here well worth the price especially since you're getting three extra months and again if you
just want to try out a single month you do have a 30-day money-back guarantee so keep that in mind
and the 30-day money-back guarantee covers all of the plans unlike with ipvanish where
it will only cover the yearly plan as you can tell here it says 30 days risk-free
yearly plan only so that'll be the only plan that's actually covered by the 30-day money-back
guarantee so keep that in mind both vpns do have a live chat support that can help you of course
with your refund if you would like to claim it or any other question you might be having
about such vpns and that'll be it for this video again you'll find links to special
deals and discounts in the description down below especially the one mentioned here with expressvpn
you'll also find a full review of both express and ipvanish in the description down below uh if you'd
like to learn more about these vpns so that you can hopefully make more of an educated decision
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