how's it going everybody welcome back today we're going to be taking a look at nordvpn and proton
vpn we're going to be comparing both of these vpns and hopefully you'll be able to figure out
which one would be the best choice for you and your situation so before we begin if you guys
are interested in either of these vpns you'll find links to special deals and discounts in the
description down below as well as full reviews if you'd like to learn more about these vpns okay so
with regards to the privacy policy both providers are based in privacy friendly locations that'll be
panama for nordvpn and switzerland for proton vpn neither of which are part of the five eyes
alliance nordvpn has had its zero logs policy audited once in 2018 and another time in 2020
meanwhile proton vpn has built a lot of trust in that regard with their long-standing uh protonmail
uh product and of course their applications are open source and audited as well both providers
also offer an anonymous payment option using cryptocurrencies so you do have that option of
extra anonymity with both vpns now with regards to speed this is my speed without a vpn so
we're just going to be taking a look at the download speed for the sake of time
at 5.69 megabits per second which isn't obviously impressive at all and i would appreciate it if
these vpns did not drop it even more now typically you know drops between about 10 and 25 are
considered pretty good uh for most vpns really in fact a premium vpn will give you between 10 15 and
20 percent and let's go ahead and check out the results so starting with nordvpn and by the way i
did use the best performing protocols the fastest protocols with both vpns so that'll be the north
links protocol with nordvpn and the wireguard protocol with proton vpn i tested the new york
server and the italian server so with nordvpn at 4.97 megabits per second which is a 12.65 decrease
in speed uh with proton vpn at 4.63 megabits per second which is an 18.62 percent drop in speed
uh and now with nordvpn with the italian server of course it's a closer server i am near the european
region so i'm most likely going to get better connections with the italian or european servers
so 5.03 megabits per second which is an 11.59 drop in speed meanwhile with proton vpn at 4.74 which
is a 16.69 drop in speed so uh proton vpn is not slow by any means but it is consistently slower
than nordvpn but then again nordvpn is known for being one of the fastest vpns in the industry
now with regards to streaming surprisingly enough uh proton vpn did pretty well uh
specifically with the netflix u.s netflix library and it is able to unblock the us netflix library
uh it's been especially difficult after the latest crackdown on vpn traffic by netflix
and nordvpn is actually still trying to figure out how to get that fixed especially with the united
states netflix now nordvpn will be able to unblock all types of u.s based streaming services except
for the us netflix unfortunately but when it comes to especially european and asian netflix you'll
have no trouble at all it's just that with nordvpn it's a little bit difficult for them at the moment
to unblock us netflix and that's a temporary thing really they're still working on it but proton vpn
does not seem to have any trouble on blocking us netflix and that's how i unblocked geron up which
is only available in these states uh now with hbo max it's kind of a hit or miss with the proton vpn
whereas it's pretty consistent with nordvpn proton vpn just could not unblock hulu as you can tell
just gives me this error uh both were able to unblock disney plus and bbc iplayer was also
unblockable by both though i did have to kind of reload a couple of times with bbc iplayer as i did
get an error with proton vpn whereas i was able to unblock it with nordvpn right away with regards to
torrenting both vpns do allow for torrenting and with proton vpn specifically you will see
servers that give you this little symbol right here that says it is a peer-to-peer supported
server in nordvpn all of the servers are optimized for streaming and taunting so no problems there
although you do have peer-to-peer specialty servers and speaking of specialty servers
and security with nordvpn you'll be getting a whole bunch of security features such as the ad
blocker the nord links protocol and if you switch to openvpn you'll get access to two extra servers
right here specialty servers including dedicated ip and double vpn on top of onion or vpn and
peer-to-peer i do like to stick to the nord lynx protocol since it's the fastest one not only do
you get a conventional kill switch but also an app kill switch which will close selected apps when
you disconnect from the vpn or the vpn disconnects unexpectedly so this will close selected apps
rather than closing your entire connection as it is with the conventional kill switch
of course you get split tunneling in advance you'll get an easy way to change your dns and
obfuscated servers if you're in a censorship-heavy country though with regards to censorship-heavy
countries if you are in one nordvpn will provide you with a special version of nordvpn
which will look exactly the same it's identical it'll just function in censorship heavy countries
so you won't really need to use obfuscated servers and with regards to china i would definitely not
recommend a proton vpn it does work it seems like according to a lot of reports uh but it's not as
consistent so definitely just stick to nordvpn if you are in a censorship heavy country but still i
have heard reports that proton vpn does work in censorship heavy countries but it doesn't seem
to be very consistent okay now with regards to feature security features in proton vpn you still
get the kill switch no app kill switch you get net shield which is an ad blocker and secure core
which are servers that are heavily guarded and are within secured uh buildings of proton vpn
just to make sure that uh you get the maximum privacy and anonymity uh protection uh though at
the cost of speed though a little bit of a reduced speed uh and if you go to settings right here
go to settings you'll notice we do have a couple of protocols similar to a nordvpn with wireguard
as a beta it's a new vpn custom dns in order to change your dns very easily if you would like and
in advanced you will notice we have obviously dns and ipv6 leak protection which is present in most
vpns really of course including nordvpn and with regards to security features that's pretty much
it it really is as simple as that now moving on to the pricing plans of these vpns you'll notice
that we do have a 30-day money-back guarantee on all of the plans right here with nordvpn
with proton vpn it's not exactly a money-back guarantee but they'll give you credit that you
can use with proton vpn services later on so you won't get your money back but it's as if you're
kind of pausing your service so it's not exactly a money-back guarantee and for the pricing you do
get the one extra month here if you click the link in the description if you're interested
uh without the link i mean there are special offers but the special offer just gives you two
years for a good price without that extra month so you'll get that extra month if you click the link
in the description as you can tell for the yearly plan it's 4.92 interestingly enough proton vpn
is not that cheap really and uh for some reason they don't even give you they have this kind of
uh pricing plan where there's basic plus and visionary if you want protonmail
but you won't really be able to unblock streaming services with the basic plan but only with the
plus plan um though you will be able to secure up to 10 vpn connections per subscription as uh you
will get six with nord uh you do get all access to all well they actually at this point have
over 1400 servers in 61 countries whereas nordvpn has over 5100 servers in 60 countries so
definitely a one up here for uh nordvpn when it comes to the number of servers
uh and yeah interestingly enough it's four dollars right here for the yearly plan it's only for the
basic and if you're looking to unblock streaming services you'll have to pay up to six where you
can still get a much cheaper plan and this is the yearly plan by the way so you can
switch to the two-year plan and get a cheaper uh kind of plan here but northvpn still manages to be
cheaper even with the uh yearly plan right here so yeah i it's it's really up to you whether
you want to go with nord or proton vpn i'm just here to kind of present you with the information
it's up to you to go with one or the other now if you're looking to unblock streaming services
and you're just looking for a convenient budget friendly option i would definitely go with nordvpn
even if it doesn't unblock us netflix it's only temporary and they'll be working on it to
get it done uh very soon so no worries there because nordvpn is definitely going to be
much more consistent with other streaming services such as bbci player hbo and hulu
okay so that'll be it for this video if you guys are interested in any of these vpns you'll find
links to special deals and discounts in the description down below as well as full reviews
if you'd like to learn more about these vpns and do keep in mind that only nordvpn offers
a 30-day money-back guarantee so if you're not satisfied with the service you are able to claim
uh your refund through the live chat support which you can get access to through the
website right here if you go to just if we just go back right here you'll get access to the live
chat support through the bottom right whereas with proton vpn you will have to deal with the
email kind of back and forth which may not be as quick as live chat support
and again you don't get a money back guarantee but rather just credit that you can use again with
proton services comment below if you have any questions i'll be happy to answer them all like
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