how's it going everybody welcome back and today i'm going to show you guys how you can use nordvpn
on a mac and just as a disclaimer i am on windows but it is really the same
application whether you're on windows mac android ios or most other devices really
of course some of these applications will have either additional or missing features depending
on the device you're using and that's exactly what i'm about to get into before begin if you guys are
interested in nordvpn you'll find the link in the description down below which will give you
a little bit of an extra discount uh you'll also find a link to the full review that'll give you
more in-depth look into the privacy policy speed streaming and torrenting capabilities
as well as security and features all right so now the application itself is incredibly easy
to use let me go ahead and just disconnect and of course when it comes to using the vpn you can just
hit quick connect and it will connect to the closest server depending on your location so
for me it connected to israel because i'm close to israel so for you it might be a different uh
location depending on obviously your geographical location now with regards to nordvpn
it's gonna have the same features on uh your mac os and the ui itself is going to be exactly the
same except on mac os i believe you can get a dark mode and in terms of downloading the application
i have spoken to the nordvpn live chat support and they recommended that i would install it through
the official website rather than the apple store for the best version of nordvpn so all you need
to do is go to nordvpn uh forward slash download forward slash mac forward slash and you are good
to go and a few things you want to keep in mind when using nordvpn or before you activate nordvpn
is first of all just a rule of thumb um the closer the server to you the better but with nordvpn you
are able to use the nord links protocol which is definitely the recommended protocol uh and
of course another thing that you'll notice that is different on mac is that you will get
ikev2 as a protocol instead of openvpn so you'll have nord links and ik ev2 now for the most part
you want to use ikev2 and ikev2 by the way will show up if you install it through the mac app
store or the apple store right where windows here as you can tell i don't have ikev2 so keep in mind
that if you're looking for the ikev2 protocol you want to download it through the apple store but if
either way both of them will have nord links now a feature that you don't get if you download it
through the app store is custom dns and if you're interested in custom dns you want to download it
through the website rather than the apple store so you know it depends if you're looking for the
ik av2 protocol and maybe you're not interested in using the best protocol which is north lynx
download it through the apple store if you're not very interested in ik ev2 and nord links will do
just fine which it will really it works almost 100 of the time and you would be more interested in
easily changing your dns then go with the official version from the nord vpn website and another
feature that you don't get with uh the mac version is split tunneling and split tiling will allow you
to choose which applications are routed through the vpn and which are not which can be a useful
nifty little security feature but i know most of you guys on mac will look for ease views
rather than having to go into any of the advanced features such as split tunneling though you will
get the kill switch which will disconnect your internet when the vpn disconnects unexpectedly
preventing any leaks and of course again you're getting the nord links protocol as well as
cybersec which is an ad blocker you will also get your specialty servers so double vpn onion or vpn
and peer-to-peer and of course you have over 5200 servers in 60 countries and roughly the same ui
and once you know when it comes to using nordvpn if you're interested in keeping your information
uh as private as possible you want to keep the internet kill switch on okay and once this is on
you can head back to the vpn itself and of course make sure you're using the nord links protocol
and that's it so let's say you want to connect to an american server to activate american netflix
you can just zoom in here and pick one of these or you can go all the way down
and go to the united states and this is if you want to access these servers one by one if you
just want to browse through them let's say you're going for new york and here you have all of the
new york servers that are available to you so yeah let's say you want la just switch to la and
now you have all of the la servers available to you one by one and you'll see the percentage here
of the amount of traffic that is in these servers uh and very easy so once you pick one um
all you need to do is just you know let's say we picked one here you picked whatever
server and just connect or you can keep it to the fastest and it'll pick one for you
and just hit connect and with nord links you'll notice that the connection
is almost instantaneous so yeah all right so or you can just you know disconnect let's say you're
looking for a european one this time just zoom in here you know whatever let's say italy and just
click the italian dot right here and you are now connected to italy and if you want to double check
that you are indeed connected to italy just go to some kind of what is my paddress.com kind of uh
there are plenty of ip address finders so here as you can tell i'm connected to milan italy so
it really is as simple as that when using when it comes to using a vpn now i definitely
recommend checking out the review below if you'd like more information on the privacy
policy as i said in the beginning the streaming and torrenting capabilities uh speed tests as well
as security and features and what they all do but all you need to know is that nordvpn
is a very high quality vpn that is trusted by many and the privacy policy is backed up by multiple
independent audit reports and it's the same for the server infrastructure and how safe it can
be they're all ram based servers of course all the explanations of what i'm saying is in the
review below nordvpn performs very well and it has a 30-day money-back guarantee if you're not
satisfied for whatever reason and they do have a live chat support which you which you can easily
access here as you can tell from the bottom right and yeah i was just talking to them here checking
if there are any differences between mac and windows and that's how i was able to get you
guys the information that i presented today okay so that keep that in mind you have that 30 day
money back guarantee and you are able to test out nordvpn risk free without having to worry about
your money or not receiving your refund you'll receive it within three to four business days
if you are not satisfied for whatever reason again you'll find a link in the description
down below in order to take advantage of the discount that i procured for you guys besides
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thank you guys very much for watching and i'll see you in the next one have a wonderful day