how's it going everybody welcome back and today we're just going to be talking about ipvanish and
nordvpn and which one of these vpns could be the best choice for you so before we begin if
you guys are interested in any of these vpns be it ipvanish or vpn you'll find links to special
deals and discounts in the description down below in this video we're going to be talking about
the privacy policy speed streaming and torrenting capabilities and security and features of each one
of these vpns so starting with the privacy policy of ipvanish which is arguably the most important
aspect of what a vpn can offer this is usually what decides whether a user will trust a vpn
provider or not almost every vpn claims to follow a strict no-locks policy but unfortunately this is
just a common marketing tactic used by companies to acquire casual users trust and most of the time
it's a false claim now in ipvanish's case it's a little bit of both like all providers ipvanish
claims a strict no log policy as it states in their privacy policy page ipvanish does not
collect monitor or log any traffic or use of its virtual private network service on any platform
now nothing in their privacy policy looks off and there's no history of any data breaches and
since there are no independent audit reports that are available to the public all we can do is take
their word for it and hope that they deliver on the no log policy claim though if ipvanish wants
to keep up with vpn giants like express northern surf shark they will need to start allowing for
independent audits to take place now with regards to the privacy policy of nordvpn nord is very
transparent about their data collection they never track the ip addresses that you use the websites
you visit and files you download or the time and duration of your online sessions they have
a strict no locks policy and there's really no evidence to suggest otherwise nord also had its
no locks privacy policy audited by a third-party company called pricewaterhousecoopers once in 2018
and another time in 2020 both audits successfully verified nord's no lock policy and confirm their
privacy claims and this is what i usually like to see from vpns kind of providing evidence that
they do uphold the integrity of their no logs policy now with regards to speed both of these
vpns are rather quick thanks to the protocols the uh the wire guard protocols right here so
if i go to settings you'll notice that we have a handful of protocols which is really cool to have
but honestly with ipvanish if you're going to use the vpn to it's let's say maximum
potential you want to stick to the wireguard protocol and it's the same with nordvpn
though i've noticed that nordvpn is about 10 faster but overall honestly both vpns are
very quick even if nordvpn is about 5 to 10 or sometimes 15 percent faster ipvanish is still
very quick thanks to its wireguard protocol with regards to streaming and torrenting both vpns work
perfectly fine with torrenting and peer-to-peer activities you even have special peer-to-peer
servers here in nordvpn but i didn't notice any particular advantages to using the peer-to-peer
servers for torrenting over any other regular server so yeah overall both vpns work great for
torrenting and with regards to streaming i was able to unblock hbo max amazon prime disney plus
netflix uk as well as bbc iplayer which is also available in the uk now unfortunately thanks to
the latest crackdown by netflix on vpn traffic uh while in the past ipvanish and nordvpn had
no problem unblocking us netflix specifically unfortunately now they are having quite a bit
of trouble with unblocking us netflix i was not able to unblock u.s netflix so uh yeah even here
when i'm connected to a us server with nordvpn if i go ahead and try to look up get on up which is a
movie that's only available in the states you'll notice that i just can't find it
so if that's something you're specifically looking for i would recommend that you go to
expressvpn and surf shark which work just fine when it comes to netflix and streaming services
in general they're the better choice overall when it comes to unblocking streaming services so find
links to both expressvpn and surfshark in the description as well if you're interested
but when it comes to let's say bbc iplayer and american streaming services like hbo max
disney amazon prime video you are still able to unblock them using ipvanish and nord vpn now in
terms of security and features ipvanish boasts the standard 256 bit encryption with a 2048 bit key
you've got five protocol choices as you can tell a kill switch is also available right here
as well as dns leak protection and ipv6 traffic leak protection though the kill switch is not
available on ios so keep that in mind and besides the handful of protocols here as well as kill
switch and the dns leak blocks which are pretty solid unfortunately you won't be getting any
split tunneling or any specialty features for that matter and if you're looking to get
ipvanish to work in china unfortunately it won't really work to get around the great firewall of
china or any other ship heavy countries for that matter if you're looking for a vpn that
works in restrictive countries you're gonna have to go with nordvpn which works quite well
in censorship-heavy countries of course iep vanish has over 1400 servers spread across a diverse
57 countries all of which are apparently owned and over 40 000 ip addresses but unfortunately they do
not run their servers on ram disk mode which means user data could potentially be acquired from the
servers by third parties this is considered a a little bit of a drawback and takes away
from the validity of their no logs policy claim ram discs are being adopted by most quality vpns
these servers will mean that data is erased with every machine reboot leaving no information behind
since there's no physical hard drive to store data on and of course with uh nordvpn here most
of these servers not all of them but most of the servers do run on ram disk drives you've got over
5 100 servers in 60 countries so that's three more countries but about four but yeah about 3
500 more servers which is a huge number really and you have access to all the servers right here
similar to ipvanish actually um the uh i mean the user interface i wouldn't say it's the easiest to
use it's not exactly the most intuitive if you go to let's say quick connect right here you select
united states for example and i don't know dallas you'll actually have access to all the servers
which is really cool so yeah you can pick any of the ip addresses right here and it's the same
with a nord vpn which is one thing they have in common so let's say you pick atlanta you're
actually gonna have access to all the servers you can just uh yeah pick through them and uh yeah
not a lot of vpns uh really provide that kind of uh freedom of selection between the servers
besides that nordvpn has plenty of features honestly besides of course the kill switch
you have specialty servers including onion vpn and peer-to-peer and if you switch to openvpn
you will notice so change and reconnect you will notice that uh you have access to two
more uh specialty servers such as dedicated ip and double vpn which is pretty cool it can be pretty
handy if you're uh interested in uh such specialty servers and then you've got an ad blocker not only
a conventional kill switch but also an amp kill switch which will close selected apps when you
disconnect from the vpn or the connection drops unexpectedly unlike the conventional internet
kill switch which will disconnect your entire connection when the vpn disconnects unexpectedly
uh you've got split tunneling of course if you didn't know what that is you get to choose which
applications are tunneled through the vpn which are not so for example you can have
only netflix or only your browser or only your torrenting client use the vpn while the rest of
your connection is left untouched by the vpn tunneling so this can be useful or vice versa
by the way uh and in advance you have an easy way to change your dns with custom dns and obfuscated
servers if you're in a censorship-heavy country as i mentioned earlier uh nordvpn does work in
china so yeah or any other censorship heavy country for that matter overall when you put
all these features together and then you take a look at the pricing it starts to make more sense
as to which vpn you're going to want to go for so if we take a look at the pricing here where is it
actually right here yeah there we go uh so look at this now the first tier is definitely
uh cheaper than exp than nordvpn so we've got four dollars a month whereas for the yearly plan and
nordvpn you're going to pay 59 for one year here you're going to be paying 48 not not the biggest
difference but if you notice here it's only for the first year you're going to be paying 48
and then the year after you'll be paying 90 which is just it's it's an absurd amount for the well
the servers you're getting sure they're both great vpns they work just fine they're pretty secure
well on paper not as secure as nord actually nord works better with streaming services they
both have live chat support for sure but when it comes to just locations and features nord
really wins here and speed by the way in performance uh so yeah the pricing here i
don't think it's very justified so if you're gonna count two years this is 90 plus 48
which is roughly 140 dollars something like that whereas with nordvpn you can get two years okay
and if you click the link in the description usually you will get three months for free
but with the with the link in the description you'll get four months for free you'll be able
to get yourself 28 months with 89 rather than ipvanish's plan here which is of course 89.99
for the year after it's just a single year so yeah um ipvanish is just much more expensive
for a service that i don't think really deserves such pricing if it were a little bit
cheaper than that i would yeah i could probably recommend it but yeah nordvpn is definitely going
to be the winner here uh it's even even if you just want to go for the one-year plan it's worth
getting nordvpn over ipvanish it's i mean the price difference is really not that big here so
yeah 59 versus uh ipvanishes 48 yeah and if you're gonna go for the long-term plan
uh just getting charged for the second year about double they're charging you about double
the first year that's a little bit weird kind of uh yeah i don't i don't really like that so yeah
i would just go with nordvpn if i were you but it's up to you at the end of the day again if you
guys are interested in any of these vpns you'll find links to special deals and discounts in the
description down below especially if you want to get nordvpn's extra month here usually you
will get one uh you'll get three months for free but with the link in the description you'll get
four months for free so if you're interested in that you'll find it in the description down below
and if you're interested in the other options i mentioned today such as expressvpn and surf
shark you'll find links to special deals and reviews in the description down below besides
that thank you guys very much for watching i'll see you in the next one have a wonderful day