how's it going everybody welcome back today we're going to be taking a look at zenmate which is one
of the more popular vpns out there we're going to be taking a look at the privacy policy speed
streaming and torrenting capabilities as well as security and features so before we begin if you
guys are interested in zenmate you'll find a link to special deals and discounts in the description
down below if you'd like to get straight to the discounts or pricing now getting straight into
it starting with the privacy policy now zenmate is based in germany which isn't perfect the country
is part of the 14 eyes surveillance alliance and is a member of the european union all of this can
be problematic if you're looking for privacy and anonymity the service itself promises no logs but
the privacy policy seems to contradict itself they state that the data controller shall process and
store the personal data of the data subject only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of
storage and they say here that these personal data will not be passed down to third parties so they
do admit to collecting quite a lot of information from the website visits and even using tracking
pixels and newsletters uh this isn't something that you want to find in your vpn's terms of
service from a privacy standpoint and they have never had any kind of independent audits
so there are no reports to kind of prove that they uh well don't collect any information that can be
linked back to the user so all you can do is take their word for it and their word it seems like
yeah they do collect quite a bit of information and they just promise you that hey well well we
won't share it so you're just gonna have to trust us um that's not exactly the kind of uh logging
policy that i want to see usually with regards to the privacy policy of a vpn so moving on to speed
just to give you a little test here uh this is my speed without a vpn i'm located near the european
region as you can see here beirut so 5.71 megabits per second not the best speed so when i connected
to the paris server i got a 44.4 megabits per second which is roughly a 20 drop in speed
uh it's kind of the same thing with the london uh server here and unfortunately when i connected
to the netflix uh server in order to try to unblock netflix uh with the states here uh yeah
the chicago one the one i'm connected to right now unfortunately i got nearly a 50 percent dip in
speed um is this 50 yeah this is a little bit more than 50 in fact uh yeah not good at all so with
nearby servers it does well it does well enough uh obviously not as good as some of the top vpns like
expressvpn nord or surfshark but it's still good enough but with far away servers servers that are
much further away like in other continents and such unfortunately it's taking more than a 40 to
50 percent dip so yeah it that's it doesn't look very good i mean you can still stream
and speaking of streaming i was able to unblock netflix impressively enough netflix us
amazon prime hbo max a disney plus and bbc iplayer however if you're connecting to disney plus or any
american kind of service or if you're trying to stream uh from a service that's in another
continent you might experience some buffering here and there so you'll just have to deal with
that but impressively enough i mean for such a budget friendly vpn you're able to you know uh
unblock all these services that's pretty good and for torrenting zenmate allows for torrenting
there's really no problem with that uh not at all and when tested for dns leaks there was
nothing out of the ordinary so nothing here indicated my relocation and with regards to
security zenmay does boast the uh standard 256-bit encryption you've got over 4 000
servers in 80 countries so a very good a variety of servers with regards to security and features
uh you don't really have much and of course you'll notice if you're familiar with cyberghost you'll
notice that the ui is precisely the same as cyberghost which is uh very interesting
um yeah to say the least they didn't really put any effort into changing it
uh since it's owned of course by the same company and again with security features you don't really
have a wireguard protocol here for example all you have is openvpn and ikev2 in my experience i found
openvpn to be a little bit faster even though ikv2 should be the faster one but of course you have
dns and ipv6 leak protection uh and you do have a kill switch that you cannot turn off actually
um so yeah just keep that in mind of course the kill switch works uh pretty well but you just
cannot turn it off so if the vpn disconnects unexpectedly you will lose connection uh and
yeah it's it's a good feature overall it's a good security feature to have but you'd expect to have
the option uh to turn off if they're giving you a an on and off toggle here but you can't really
turn it off similar to what uh how it works in cyber ghost you are able to uh connect this vpn
well with just one subscription you'll be able to secure virtually an unlimited number of devices
so and it's compatible with almost everything really you should be able to download it and
on nearly every device you can think of including smart tvs and browser extensions and you do get
by the way a seven day free trial if you want to try out the service you get a full trial
uh so not bad at all and if you want to go for the uh budget deal here it is really cheap actually
i mean you're paying 60 bucks roughly 60 bucks for three years which is pretty impressive i mean if
you're just looking for a vpn with peer-to-peer support you're able to torrent you're able to
stream you might not be getting the best speeds definitely not the best choice for gaming uh or
high speed streaming but at the end of the day this is i mean you're getting what you're paying
for um you do get a 30-day money-back guarantee on all of the plans so that's not bad at all i
mean at the end of the day if you'd like you can go ahead and try the service room for one month
and if you don't like it you can get yourself the refund with the live chat support here so uh yeah
not bad not bad at all uh so at the end of the day this is a cheap vpn that's just supposed to
get the job done it's supposed to cater to casual users so it's a pretty decent vpn
i would say with questionable privacy policy so again if you guys are interested in zenmate you'll
find links to special deals and discounts in the description down below but if you're looking for
vpns that score very well in every category be it security performance privacy policy
independent audits uh speed everything really with regards to streaming and torrenting capabilities
uh definitely check out the link down below i'll put a video to my top three vpns
these are also even if you wanted a budget vpn they include a budget vpn so
uh that'll be expressvpn northvpn and surf shark they for the most part cater to really
over 90 or 95 of the vpn user base again you'll find that video in the description down below
as well as links to special deals and discounts if you just want to get straight to the pricing
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