how's it going everybody welcome back and today i want to talk about the privacy and anonymity
of both nordvpn and surfshark uh specifically talking about the uh well tools that you have
at your disposal so that you can increase your security and make sure that you're anonymous
as well to the best of your abilities at least using these two vpns of course i wouldn't be
picking these vpns if they didn't at least have an audited no logs policy so we'll get into that in
just a second but before we begin if you guys are interested in any of these vpns you'll find links
to special deals and discounts in the description down below as well as full reviews if you'd like
to learn more about these vpns so for you privacy conscious users out there now both of these vpns
of course both the 256 the standard 256 bit encryption uh with a 4096 key with nordvpn
and 2048 key with surfshark now on paper uh that means nordvpn is a little bit more secure even
though the 2048-bit key uh times two is 4096 which is what we have with nordvpn uh it doesn't really
mean that it's twice as secure and with regards to no locks policies both no locks policies have
been audited by the way uh we have one audit in 2018 and another audit in 2020 with nordvpn and
they were both they both resulted of course in great conclusions with low severity low to medium
severity issues nothing that has to do of course with any kind of suspicious data being logged
and it's the same with surf shark though with surf shark um i would criticize the fact that they only
audited the browser extensions and not the application itself uh though cure53 did audit
surf shark again but this time it was their server infrastructure and it also resulted in
low low to medium severity uh issues which surf shark got on top of right away so it's good to see
that surf shark is kind of continuing that trend of running audits on their server and for running
audits on their server infrastructure and making sure that their network is as secure as it can be
and i look forward to another audit but this time for the application itself on windows mac
os and not just uh the browser extension which i can imagine less people use so yeah we should
definitely be able to get more data with the applications independent audit so with regards
to the application itself you do have quite a few options here let me just disconnect real quick so
to increase your anonymity first of all if you're in a censorship-heavy country nordvpn
will provide you with a version of northvpn that looks identical to this one but will just function
in a censorship-heavy country so you don't really need to use obfuscated servers in order to make it
work in a censorship-heavy country but obfuscated servers will help with security since you're using
openvpn tcp and will surfshark actually if you're in china specifically because of the
great firewall of china and how tough it can be to bypass you'll have to manually configure surfshark
and they'll definitely help you out by the way if you contact them with the live chat support
both vpns obviously have live chat support at the bottom right of their uh websites right here as
you can tell so ways to increase your anonymity with nordvpn and surf shark and the cool thing
about both of these vpns is that first of all they're very quick and they have plenty of servers
over 5100 servers in 65 countries with nordvpn and over 3 200 servers in 65 countries with surf shirt
uh nor vpn will allow to secure up to six devices per subscription while virtually an unlimited
number of devices can be secured with just one subscription with surf shark so it's the perfect
choice for friends and family uh you also do have the option to use double vpn though keep in mind
on windows at least this will only be available uh when using openvpn if you switch to nord links
double vpn dedicated ip will go away though with surfshark you can still use the wire guard
protocol and still have access to multi-hop of course double vpn and multi-hop will route your
connection through two servers rather than one for double the encryption making it twice as difficult
to reach your data and that's just one method of increasing security if you really want to make
sure that everything you're doing is as obfuscated as possible you can switch to openvpn tcp
and you can turn on obfuscated servers and you can of course use these obfuscated servers
which will put a little bit more effort into making your traffic look like normal traffic so
that your isp won't even be able to tell they're using a vpn in the first place uh what you can do
what you can so this is for nordvpn and how you can achieve that with surf shark is also
by going to connectivity of course keep the kill switch on in both vpns just to make sure that uh
if you happen to lose the connection to your vpn your internet connection will also be disconnected
just to make sure that no leaks take place and of course just turn on no borders mode
and you could turn on also shadow socks which is a proxy that will protect your
browser traffic only and it will help you reach banned websites if you're in a censorship heavy
country and of course no borders mode will help you bypass the great firewall of china
uh though if you're in china you're most likely going to have to configure surf shark manually
so of course all the guides are available you can just talk to surf shark and they'll
guide you through everything with the live chat support all in all both vpns have great privacy
and anonymity and of course if you'd like to learn more about these vpns you'll find links to
reviews down below that will give you a more of an in-depth look into the privacy policy speed
streaming and taunting capabilities as well as security and features uh and you also have
links to special deals and discounts if you'd like to take advantage of those while they last
again both these vpns do have live chat support who can also help you by the way with the refund
because both of these vpns are covered by a 30 day money back guarantee if you'd like to try out the
servers for just one month and then get a refund you can definitely do that besides that like and
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