hey guys so I wanted to do a quick
review today on tunnel bear a lot of
people been asking for this so this will
be a more quick review / overview but
when we get a chance to do a more
in-depth review I'll put that in the
description below
Tunnel bear is actually based in Toronto
Canada it's been around since about 2011
and it's somewhat unique in that offers
both a free and paid service now the
free version works on multiple devices
but it limits you to about 500 megabytes
per month of bandwidth so a bit limiting
but again it's free and it can be a
great way to check out their service
before you commit to paying for anything
and now they have about 350 VPN servers
throughout 22 countries and it does
include North and South America Europe
Asia and Australia so just a reminder
when you're looking for a VPN ideally
you want to find one where there's a
server in your country or at least
really close to it as otherwise that can
really affect your the speed and
performance you get through the VPN the
interface is user friendly this wasn't
always the case with tunnel bearer so
it's nice that they've made some updates
there this is great for the newbie great
for someone who's new to VPNs now wanted
to kind of get into the security and
protection features of this so there's a
strict no logging policy and they're
very clear about this it's great to see
it means they're not selling or using
any of your data
however best since they're in Canada if
they're ever required by Canadian law to
hand over your personal information such
as your name email address the OS
version you use and not of data you use
or used and even the last four digits of
your credit card number and that's all
information that could be handed over
but otherwise you know they definitely
held their own during testing there were
no leaks detected tunnel bearer uses
open VPN by default paired with AES 256
I think it's worth noting though that
they were audited by kir 53 back in 2017
so this is an audit that they asked to
they paid for to have happen to them so
Q 53 it's like a cybersecurity firm they
and what they found were several
critical and high severity type findings
but
Tunnel bear did address all these issues
over the next several months and then
they made sure they had a better level
of security and then later on that same
year in 2017 hacker noon did a deep dive
into the tunnel bear code to see if
there's any notable vulnerable 'nor
abilities and they couldn't find
anything so basically in the end tunnel
bear does come through as being an
extremely safe and secure VPN to use and
I'd say this is definitely one of their
strengths overall a few other standout
features they have as they do have a
kill switch anonymous IP and you can
have up to five simultaneous connections
with different devices that's I would
say kind of industry standard there
right now it's nice to see some do have
less so five is a pretty good number
they have another feature called ghost
bear it's an additional feature that
tries to hide the fact that you're using
a VPN it's actually good enough to fool
many businesses and governments but
unfortunately not all of them so keep in
mind that using this feature does slow
your speed a bit so I wouldn't leave it
on all the time again when it comes to
ease of use tunnel bearer is pretty easy
for anyone to use they made a lot of
improvements here great for newbies it's
just a really nice interface now keep in
mind while it lacks some advanced
features this does make it easier to use
for anyone who's new to using VPN so you
know it's kind of a pro or con depending
on your situation and then regarding
torrenting tunnel bear used to not allow
this but that seems to all have changed
now tunnel bear does allow both
torrenting and the use of the Tor
network which was confirmed by one of
their representatives a lot of users
like to use tor in conjunction with the
VPN to maximize their anonymity but keep
in mind that your speeds may be severely
decreased while using it and then in
regards to customer service
unfortunately in that department tunnel
bear still doesn't offer live chat at
least though their ticket support system
is pretty quick like within two hours
sometimes which is great although they
say to allow up to 48 hours just in case
but the responses are good you feel like
you're getting a response from a real
human there's some life and personality
to the person
bonding to your help ticket so while I
definitely would prefer live chat
support you know at least their
responses to tickets are pretty good so
the biggest downsize the downsides to
tunnel bear is just the VPN is slow
speeds drop an average of about 50
percent and that's that's pretty bad
really we would honest anything go a
below 20% and although this isn't the
worst I've seen it's pretty bad by
today's standards so another thing
tunnel bear has a really hard time on
blocking Netflix and it doesn't support
installing their VPN software directly
on your router now for some that may not
be a big deal but obviously if that's a
feature you're looking for you'd want to
go with something else
I know pricing wise there are a few
options of course there's the free plan
I mentioned before again it limits you
to 500 megabytes a month of bandwidth
but it's great if you just need
something maybe a little a little bit to
use or as a way to kind of try out their
service of course they have a
month-to-month plan that's $9.99 I'm
basically ten dollars you can also pay
for a year up front which is $60 so
that's about five dollars a month and
then the best offer option price wise is
to pay for three years upfront you'll
pay $120 for that and that comes out to
333 a month so you know pricing wise
their price seems reasonable it's right
in the ballpark there of what other VPNs
are doing but the trick is these deals
are not as good as our you know best
VPNs that we like to recommend so Nord
for example or surf shark those are a
couple of our favorite options and you
know put links again in the description
to all of these we want to compare
pricing one of the things we like to do
when you click on the link to a VPN we
include a coupon codes any discounts any
exclusive deals offers the best that we
can get we put those in the links so you
go straight to those you don't have to
you know worry about fussing with any
extra stuff that way so again just keep
check that out in the description if
you're interested so that's that's kind
of a bummer you know for tunnel bets
it's a deal breaker in a sense so and
the other thing is Tunnel bear
surprisingly doesn't offer any refunds
or have a money
back guarantee and this is like an
industry standard at this point at least
have like a seven day money-back
guarantee all the top VPNs have that so
would I recommend tunnel bear you know
there's no disputing tunnel bear is easy
to use it offers solid security but you
know there's several other VPNs that do
that as well and the top VPNs we like to
recommend like against surf shark or
Nord or expressvpn they offer the same
features plus a few extra so in the case
of surf shark you get the same features
that tunnel bear has plus you get a few
extras like unlimited connections
instead of just five and it does connect
with Netflix it does connect with Hulu I
mean there's quite a bit more it
actually does and it's less money
decently less so the other thing with
Nord you can go with something like Nord
and you will get a better VPN for about
the same price as you would with tunnel
bear so add to that how disappointing
the speed results are and unfortunately
this is not a VPN I can recommend at
this time so hopefully you found this
video helpful if so please leave a
thumbs up I always appreciate that and
remember to check in the description
below and I'll include any relevant
links to the best price also any
promotions or discounts if there's any
coupon codes I'll make sure to find the
best ones for you and again put those in
the description as well also if you have
any comments or questions put those in
the comment section I love getting to
answer as many of those as I can
otherwise thanks so much for watching
really appreciate your time and I look
forward to seeing you in the next video