how's it going everybody welcome back and a quick comparison video between expressvpn and private
internet access uh so that you guys can hopefully be able to make a better decision when it comes to
these two vpns say you know you like express you like piaa and you can't really figure out which
one could be the best choice for you and this is what this video is going to help you figure out
now before we begin if you guys are interested in any of these vpns you'll find links to special
deals and discounts in the description down below and if you're looking to learn more about these
vpns with regards to their privacy policies speed streaming and taunting capabilities as well as
security and features you'll also find that in the description down below i'll link i'll make sure to
link full in-depth reviews in the description okay now in this video i'll briefly be talking about
the feature speed servers support ease of use and pricing okay now both of these vpns kind of serve
different purposes okay and you know if you're getting a vpn to enhance the security of your
internet both expressvpn and private internet access will serve you well that's because both
offer aes 256 bit encryption uh kill switches and ip league protection they also both offer a
variety of security protocols to choose from i'll get into the features in just a second but if you
want a vpn for unblocking geo-restricted content go with expressvpn that's because expressvpn
succeeds around blocking popular streaming sites like us netflix and hulu and pia doesn't and
while pia may be able to unblock some streaming services it's just not that consistent or reliable
additionally only expressvpn will consistently get you past the great firewall of china it's
possible for pia to do it but again it's not so reliable just like the unreliability of
private internet access with unblocking streaming services with regards to speed although pia offers
unlimited bandwidth and has lots of servers these server locations aren't so spread out
and users occasionally experience lags and speed expressvpn on the other hand consistently provides
really fast connections and the kind of internet speeds you want for bufferless
streaming and download torrents and speaking of servers pia has an undisclosed number of servers
in 78 or 79 countries i know it says 84 here but if you i mean i counted the locations myself here
i just went to vpn uh yeah i just i counted the locations myself and it's not 84 it's actually
more like 78 or 79 so i'm not exactly sure what they mean by this 84 and with expressvpn you'll
get over 3 000 servers in 94 countries uh with regards to servers by the way the pia server count
is undisclosed you know you'll see reports saying they've got 12 000 servers other reports saying
they've got 35 000 servers and other reports saying they've got just over 3 000 servers so
it's a bit confusing i'm pretty sure they have the biggest number of servers in the industry
since um yeah there are lots of reports that just say they have over ten thousand uh that's
what i found and when i asked pia themselves they weren't really clear with their answer they just
said they have lots of servers and whatnot so i'm not exactly sure why they don't exactly want to
disclose their number of servers now in terms of basic necessary security features such as the kill
switch and split tunneling expressvpn has all of those okay you've got the kill switch right here
which will stop your internet traffic if the vpn disconnects unexpectedly and splitting will allow
you to choose which applications are routed to the vpn and which are not depending on what you're
looking for splattering can be very helpful and a handful of protocols just stick with the best
performing protocol right here and that's pretty much it when it comes to uh features and you'll be
able to secure up to five devices per subscription now in the customization and features department
this is where pia easily wins you've got protocols of course some options right here display
notification options protocol options including wireguard and a customizable ver very customizable
in fact openvpn protocol and a wireguard protocol with the network here you have some dns custom dns
options and you can request port forwarding port forwarding is available um you've got the kill
switch as well as an ad blocker dedicated ips you can buy automation options split tunneling a
double vpn which will write connection through two servers rather than one it's also called
multi-hop here uh it's called double vpn usually known with nordvpn which just gives you an extra
security layer and in terms of the privacy policy uh expressvpn had its privacy policy kind of uh
independently audited to show evidence that they do uphold their no logs policy whereas pia
they don't really say anything about uh independent audits they did kind of uh promise
that they will have independent audits later on but we've yet to see that they promised that back
in 2019 so i'm not exactly sure what uh they're on about even though they do say themselves
don't trust verify and i can't really see any uh verification here to support their no logs
policy claim now in terms of support expressvpn has a much stronger customer support network
than pia in addition to a multitude of tutorials and setup guides expressvpn has email and social
media support and a 24 7 live chat support and while piaa has roughly the same support
you know i've got live chat support and everything i just noticed that the live chat support agents
are not as maybe useful in just generally a pia were not able to solve a few problems when i came
uh to the live chat support uh for help but with expressvpn they were always able to kind of uh
keep up with me and not refer me to the ticketing system because that's what pia did they just tried
to refer me to the ticketing system to the email ticketing system and i don't like to use that i
just want my problem to be solved on the spot by the 24 7 live chat support all right and in terms
of ease of use obviously um it's very easy for expressvpn to win that category you can tell by
the interface that pia is not exactly designed for simplicity in mind with simplicity in mind rather
uh so yeah expressvpn is going to be a much simpler uh option and much easier for most
people to use now with regards to simultaneous connections you'll be able to secure up to 10
devices with pia while with expressvpn you're logged in at five both have a 30-day money-back
guarantee so nowhere is there but expressvpn is significantly more expensive specifically because
the security is quite a bit strong i wouldn't say it's stronger than pia i would say it is the same
but the only difference is that when it comes to the privacy policy and no lux policy express vpn
went above and beyond to prove their uh no locks policy to prove the integrity of their no locks
policy and how they really do honor their users anonymity whereas a private internet access they
just claim that but they don't really have any evidence to back their claim up okay and obviously
because of that and the reliability uh that expressvpn gives users when it comes to unblocking
streaming services and whatnot this is why it is actually quite a bit more expensive for the first
year you're going to be getting this discount which you'll find in the description down below uh
you're going to be getting 15 months for a hundred bucks roughly a hundred bucks uh whereas with pi a
you're actually going to be able to save up a lot more if pia does the job for you you know uh
you're gonna be able to kind of pay the same roughly the same so 79 bucks that's 20 bucks
less but you're getting three years okay three years and three months uh so that is just a lot
of months okay and yeah but be careful the next time you pay for uh pia it's gonna be much more
expensive so around 300 bucks rather than 79 bucks for the next set of three years so after those
three years you're going to be paying a lot more whereas with expressvpn they only have just a year
by year really and this is the only kind of offer they have going on right now they're usually not
very generous when it comes to their offers and they never have any uh plans that exceed 12 months
but this time they're just giving three extra months for free with the single year plan so
that'll be it for this video hopefully you guys learned a thing or two about these vpns just kind
of make sure uh that your option here or your choice will be a choice that you won't regret
later either way you do have a 30 day money back guarantee and 24 7 live chat support with both
vpns so no worries there and yeah you'll have links to special deals and discounts in the
description down below as well as the full reviews if you'd like to learn more about these vpns
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