how's it going everybody welcome back and some of you guys have been asking
uh is tunnelbear safe to use uh so i'm gonna be talking about that i'll also be
mentioning or suggesting three other vpns at the end of the video if you guys are interested or
if you think maybe tunnelbear isn't for you i'll suggest three of the best vpns in the industry so
you'll find links to special deals and discounts in the description down below if you guys are
interested in any of the vpns mentioned today including tunnelbear of course as well as links
to reviews in the description if you're interested in learning more about any of these vpns
uh extensively learning about them so before i get into the security first of all with regards to
features here i'm not really going to be talking about the features mainly because there's really
not much to talk about with tunnelbear uh it's a very basic vpn and there's really nothing to
talk about besides the security features here such as vigilant bear and ghost bear and a vigilant
bear is pretty much a kill switch which will block your internet connection or disconnect your
internet when the vpn disconnects unexpectedly and ghost bear is basically obfuscation which
will make your browsing data look like any regular data so that your isp won't even be able to tell
they're using a vpn in the first place so of course that can come in handy for people
that are in a censorship-heavy countries so besides that there's really not much
uh you've got the privacy policy which is what we're going to be talking about of course the
privacy policy is the pillar of safety when it comes to vpn so you know one of the most important
features a vpn can offer is a trustworthy privacy policy that backs up its claims with evidence and
that evidence usually comes in the form of independently audited privacy policy reports
tunnelbear despite being a small provider compared to other vpn giants maintains a
high degree of transparency publishing annual transparency reports in which they show government
subpoenas and requests which do they answer to and which they do not in 2017 they've also allowed
byte 50 by 255 to look into tunnel bears code and publish the results on hacker noon concluding that
tunnelbear had no privacy or data connection issues three more reports were carried out by
cure 53 the latest of which having been published in january 2020 discovering vulnerabilities of
various security levels and assisted tunnelbear in mitigating all the issues and fixing them
and despite the vulnerabilities cure53 concluded that tunnelbear was a clear front-runner among
its vpn competitors when it comes to security and their privacy policy is also very well detailed
and transparent on the level of data collection they do collect your email to confirm that you're
a user but they don't really collect identifiable data or anything that can be linked back to a
specific user and besides that tunnelbear has never been breached or suffered any security
malfunctions in the past neither before nor after being acquired by mcafee in early 2018.
though tunnelbear is based in canada under the five eyes jurisdiction handing out information
to governments won't really do much since they do collect very little logs uh that nothing of
true substance can be provided and so in terms of privacy policy there's not much to complain about
and according to the audits and transparency reports tunnelbear passes as a private and
trustworthy vpn for sure and with regards to security and features tunnelbear does
provide excellent security with the standard 256-bit encryption using openvpn and ikev2
tunnelbear won't let you select protocols instead the application will automatically
select protocols for you depending on which protocol connects to the servers first
tunnelbear also has dns leak protection and when tested no leaks were detected so overall this
vpn is quite secure of course if you're looking to learn more about this vpn you'll find more details
in the review below but as i said there's really not much else to the vpn besides that of course if
you're using the free version it will limit you to 500 megabytes per day of bandwidth
i do have the uh paid version here but of course even in the free version you'll have access to
all of these servers but it won't really do much besides secure your data while let's say you're
checking your email because you're not really going to be able to let's say watch videos or
download or anything like that and by the way with regards to streaming and torrenting
you're not going to be able to torrent because tunnelbear does not support peer-to-peer activity
and you're not going to be able to unblock streaming services because tunnelbear does not
consider itself a vpn service that is supposed to uh unblock streaming services and so they
just don't they they don't really support any of that now if torrenting and peer-to-peer activity
is uh of your interest as well as unblocking streaming services and many more servers and
coverage and you know just overall better services really unless you're looking for a free vpn these
vpns will be the ones to go for so that'll be expressvpn a nordvpn and surfshark these are the
uh three best vpns in the industry in my opinion they're the top three vpns great stuff overall
you know whatever it is that you're looking for you're looking for a huge coverage up to 94
countries for example with expressvpn at 60 with nord and 65 with uh surf shark and with regards
to servers you're looking at over 3 000 servers in express over 5200 in nordvpn and over 3200 in
surf short so you've got plenty of coverage all of them support peer-to-peer activity
all of them will allow you to of course pick your protocols handful of protocols in each one of them
all of them have the basic features as well such as the kill switch which is called network lock
and expressvpn it will stop your internet traffic if the vpn disconnects unexpectedly and split
tunneling will let you choose which applications uh are routed through the vpn and which are not so
for example you can uh only have your taunting client use the vpn while your the rest of your
network is left intact pretty much untouched by the vpn tunnel and vice versa of course and
uh you know what else you've got here you've got plenty of features of course in north vpn
uh all these vpns will allow for multiple uh simultaneous devices per subscription so five
simultaneous devices with expressvpn six with nord and guess what an unlimited number with surf
shark uh so yeah this is probably the best budget vpn that you can get for to share it so you can
even share with friends and family so great stuff here with surf shark and again using netflix as a
reference with regards to streaming expressvpn is able to unlock up to 18 netflix libraries 10 with
nord and 15 with surf shark but be wary with regards to american netflix libraries you want
to go with expressvpn and surfshark because they both have dedicated streaming servers specifically
for the us and netflix us whereas nordvpn is still kind of working on it because with
netflix's latest crackdown on vpn traffic it's been making it very difficult for most vpns to
unblock netflix libraries so yeah nordvpn is still trying to figure that one out especially
for the states but it is able to unblock every other streaming service really so very easy uh to
unblock streaming sources like disney plus amazon prime hulu and whatnot but it's just that netflix
is the most difficult uh streaming service to unblock so i would recommend going for expressvpn
or surfshark if you're looking to unblock uh us netflix but besides that all these vpns are
absolutely great vpns if you're interested in learning more about them of course you'll find
reviews down below as well as links to special deals and discounts and all these vpns of course
support a 30-day money-back guarantee all their plans are covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee
so no matter which plan you get you'll be able to get yourself a refund and of course you can
ask for such refund over on their websites uh 24 7 live chat supports i'll give you an example here
with expressvpn it's the same by the way with a nord and surf shark and just hover over the
bottom right here click and you'll be able to uh get access to the live chat support chat with a
live agent and they'll be able to help you with whatever problem you might be having including
of course a refund grant you asked for it before the 30th day so that'll be it for this video again
if you guys are interested in learning more about these vpns i would recommend watching the reviews
and if you have any other questions please feel free to ask me in the comments down below if
you want to ask more about tunnelbear express nord or surf shark can you get these for free
no you can't really there's isn't really a free version of any of these vpns because well there
are premium vpns and you're not really going able to get access to them unless you go for the
you just pretty much purchase one of the plans it can even be the one month plan
and you know you can get yourself a refund very easily if you would like so it really is risk-free
uh but you know as a side note you can get a seven-day free trial for expressvpn and surf
shark on your mobile device so uh whether using google play or the apple app store
you'll be able to get yourself a seven day free trial so that'll be it for this video
thank you guys very much for watching i'll see you in the next one have a wonderful day