how's it going everybody welcome to my updated review of nordvpn today i'll be talking about
the privacy policy speed streaming and torrenting capabilities as well as the security and features
of northvpn and how they can be of use to you uh so before we end if you guys are interested in
nordvpn you'll find links to pricing and discounts in the description down below so feel free to take
advantage of those if you would like to grab yourself the long-term plan especially for the
long-term plan you're going to be able to save quite a bit all right so let's get started with
the privacy policy now as you may know most vpns will claim a no locks policy but unfortunately
most vpns will also not exactly live up to that claim because they don't really have any evidence
or any independent audits to back up their claims with in this case thankfully
we do have independent audits so there are plenty of audits that nordvpn went through
and specifically two no locks policy audits one in 2018 and one in 2020 and the rest are client
security testing audits uh which most of them are actually resulting in very good standing
especially the no locks policy audits okay uh so you can view them if you are if you do have a nord
vpn account so uh they're only available to people with no vpn accounts so this is why i can
kind of access them and you can view these audits in full detail uh in on the website itself all
right now uh with regards to the controversy i know you guys some of you guys may know about
that uh there was a breach in finland there was a data center in finland that nordvpn was renting
and unfortunately it got compromised but that was not exactly north vpn's fault it was due to the
uh finnish server provider so as you can tell here one server was affected in march 2018 in finland
the rest of our service was not affected no other servers of any type were put at risk this was an
attack on our server not our entire service the breach was made possible by poor configuration on
a third party data centers part that we were never notified of evidence suggests that when the data
center became aware of the intrusion they deleted the accounts that had caused the vulnerabilities
rather than notify us of their mistake as soon as we learned of the breach the server in our
contract with the provider were terminated and we began an extensive audit of our service
no user credentials were affected there are no signs that the intruder attempted
to monitor user traffic in any way even if they had they would not have had access to those users
credentials the attacker did acquire tls keys that under extraordinary circumstances could
be used to attack a single user on the web using a specifically targeted and highly sophisticated man
in the middle attack that we detail further below these keys could not and cannot be used to decrypt
any encrypted nordvpn traffic in any form so long story short it was a failed attack and it didn't
really work thanks to nordvpn's uh strong server infrastructure so that's pretty much it as far
as the privacy policy goes it is a pretty solid no locks policy that is backed up with plenty
of evidence that they do uphold the integrity of their privacy policy so great stuff now what about
speed well this is where nordvpn has you could say its strongest point so i am using uh the nord
lynx protocol which is definitely the protocol that you should be using at all times it's the
most powerful protocol arguably making nordvpn the fastest vpn in the industry all right so my
base speed is 9.28 megabits per second and uh if i when connected to the italian server you'll notice
it's at 891 which ends up being a 3.98 decrease in speed usually even the best of vpns uh
you'll find a speed drop between 10 20 30 uh and this is just absolutely amazing
but with nordvpn you could see these numbers so 8.87 when connecting to the new york server and
by the way i am in the european region so it's a there's an entire ocean between me and new york
uh and it's still a 4.4 percent decrease uh now the higher your speed the more of a drop you're
going to see and because my speed really isn't that high so if your internet speed
reaches 100 megabits per second you might see like a 20 drop and that's still good because
you're still getting 80 megabits per second uh but in this case you know because my speed is
not that great in the first place it's very good for me that i don't get to see a 20 or 30 drop it
stops at you know about 10 to 15 max and when connecting to the japanese server it went even
uh below eight points so 8.87 now at 8.60 which is still a 7.32 decrease which is just incredible
so in terms of speed nordvpn is just one of the best vpns out there just absolutely breaking all
kinds of records when it comes to internet speeds it minimizes the speed drops as much as possible
and that's just incredible so yeah nord links uh is definitely going to get a very high rating
in terms of speed uh now with regards to streaming there i just had no trouble streaming at all as
you can tell here top 10 in the us today i'm not in the us and a i am getting access to
uh the netflix library which is just yeah very easy just connect to a us server and you're good
to go and you're able to unblock up to 10 netflix libraries so yeah with regards to streaming you
have no problems at all with regards to streaming and just to show you guys you know i'll go ahead
and refresh the page just so that you know because if i turn off my vpn and i refresh it won't show
that i'm in the states anymore but it still shows that i'm in the states just for you skeptics that
think that i had prepared a fake page this is a real page and i'm connected to the nordvpn
uh service right here all right with regards to torrenting you have peer-to-peer specific servers
so you are able to engage in peer-to-peer activity uh on all the servers but you do have peer-to-peer
specialty servers anyways um and yeah that's about it for streaming and torrenting with regards to
these security features you have a lot of features first of all you have over 5200 servers in 60
countries and you're able to secure up to six devices with just one subscription uh so yeah and
of course with regards to compatibility nordvpn is compatible with nearly every single modern device
you can think of so you don't need to worry much about that okay and with regards to the features
again you get double vpn onion or vpn and let me just go ahead and disconnect so that i can
um switch to openvpn this will give you access to an extra specialty server which is dedicated ip
double vpn will allow you to connect to two servers rather than one for double the encryption
and dedicated ip will give you the same ip address uh for every server here so let's say uk you'll
notice when connecting to these servers uh 813 will always have the same ip 873 will always have
the same ip and it's the same with every other server whereas using regular servers you'll get
a different ip address every single time onion or vpn will give you access to the dark web without
having to use the tor browser which can be useful and you have nord links obviously the one you want
to keep using is nord links in terms of protocols you have cybersec as the ad blocker you get a kill
switch which will kill your internet connection and disable it if the vpn disconnects unexpectedly
preventing any leaks and the app kills which are close selected apps when you disconnect from the
vpn or the connection drops unexpectedly and you have split telling which allow to choose which
applications uh are routed through the vpn and which are not you can have specific applications
use the vpn while the rest of your connection is left untouched by the vpn tunnel or vice versa
and you also have in advance here an easy way to change your dns with custom dns
and obfuscated servers if you are in a censorship heavy country
and of course if these regular servers don't work you might have to download the special
version of northvpn that is available on their website which gives you access to the servers
if you're in a censorship heavy country all right and of course just and a little feature here that
allows you to still use remote desktop and remote access if you want to be able to use your computer
remotely while using the vpn so that's pretty much it with regards to the features of nordvpn
they do have a 30-day money-back guarantee so you can just try the service for 30 days risk-free no
worries at all and of course they have 24 7 live chat support if you're interested in asking them
any questions or claiming your refund or whatever it is that you have uh you may be having trouble
with with the vpn but overall the ui is just very easy to use you can you know just manipulate the
window however you want and make it bigger or smaller whatever it is you can see the map design
is uh going to refresh your geography a little bit which i do appreciate i do like the map design
oftentimes i find myself just zooming into the country even if i don't remember where it is i
like kind of looking for it just to kind of refresh my geography so that's pretty
cool i do like that aspect about nordvpn uh and right here you'll notice that um yeah it's just
kind of giving you uh tips here and there turn on thread protection uh so on and so forth and that's
pretty much it uh of course you don't have to use the map you can just go down here and let's say
select united states select the state miami and here i have all the miami servers i can view them
one by one plenty of servers over 5200 servers so uh yeah even with any other country you can view
all the servers one by one uh taiwan whatever country you are looking for you can view all
the servers and you can see the percentage of um and you can see how much traffic is in each
server obviously the less traffic the faster the server the the less congestion uh obviously the
less congested the server the faster the speeds and on the right here you have a percentage
giving an idea of the capacity of the server and how congested it is so yeah obviously the less
traffic the faster the speed so keep that in mind so that'll be it for this video hopefully
you guys learned a thing or two uh about nordvpn you know i would say that nordvpn
caters to most people honestly it's a great vpn so overall nordvpn is just a super high quality
vpn especially for the price you're paying um one thing that you want to keep in mind is that
nordvpn does not have split tunneling on mac os so keep that in mind uh and of course if uh
you need the custom dns feature and another thing you want to keep in mind is that if you want the
custom dns feature right here in advanced you want to download it from the website
if you are on mac otherwise the windows just has custom dns feature by default but on mac
just keep in mind you won't get custom dns unless you download it from the website the nordvpn
website uh and uh you won't get split tunneling if you're on mac so yeah just keep that little
uh detail in mind if you're on mac and of course if yeah if you're looking for countries that are
you have 60 countries in north vpn unlike expressvpn for example which has 94 countries so
make sure before you get the vpn make sure that the countries you're after
are available i know most of you guys just want a us server and a few
european countries so yeah just keep that in mind before you make the purchase otherwise if
you do make the purchase and you're not satisfied with it you do have a 30-day money-back guarantee
again you'll find links to pricing and discounts in the description down below besides that comm
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