how's it going everybody welcome back and today i'm going to be reviewing surf shark this is
going to be the updated review of surf shark now before we begin if you guys are interested
in surf shark you'll find links to pricing and discounts in the description down below
today i'm going to be talking about the privacy policy speed streaming and torrenting capabilities
as well as the security and features of surf shark and how they can be useful to you okay so without
further ado let's just get straight into it i don't want to make this video too long i want
to get straight to the point so that you guys can get a good idea of what surf shark is about
now surf shark's privacy policy is very straightforward it's not really the most strict
privacy policy i've seen around but you know they do collect some information here and there
but nothing that seems to uh really identify the users that are using surfshark servers and thanks
to the audits that we have available here and the lack of controversy surf shark has a very clean
track record with regards to uh their privacy policy so you know they've never been caught
selling information or uh logging their users data so yeah with regards to the privacy policy while
it may not be as strict as it claims to be there isn't exactly any evidence that it is otherwise
and the evidence that we have available to us through the independent audits that they have
conducted we have a few independent audits the server infrastructure audit which is which took
place on may 24th of 2021 and another browser extension audit which showed that they do uphold
their uh no logs policy indeed but unfortunately that was just a a browser extension audit and not
an audit of the application itself but overall i would say that surf shark do uphold their no logs
policy according to the evidence that we have at hand all the independent audits resulted in very
good standing and they have never been involved in any kind of controversy regarding exposing
users data so i would say their privacy policy gets a b plus simply because we have not seen an
actual independent audit of the application itself and only of the browser extension though they do
plan on keeping this trend of conducting independent audits and i do hope to see an
independent audit of the application itself very soon and they do run their servers on
ram disks rather than hard drives so that just backs up their claims when it comes to
the privacy of their users data and what a ram disk means is that they operate their servers on
ram drives rather than hard drives so that leaves no physical space for their uh servers to store
any information and it's all stored whatever little information they have it's stored within
the ram disk which is typically very little and all that data will be erased with every machine
reboot so the bottom line is uh ram drive operated servers are going to be much better for the user's
privacy than hard drive operated servers okay so moving on to speed this is an example of
my isp throttling my connection now i have a connection of about 6 megabits
per second which is the speed of 6 megabits per second and it's obviously that's nothing
impressive i'm sure most of you guys have much better connection but my isp has a policy where
they throttle my connection after using a few gigabytes every day and uh you know while
testing here i figured out that they are in fact throttling my connection so while a vpn typically
uh slows down your connection a lot of times you'll notice that your isps are in fact
throttling your connection and slowing it down themselves and using a vpn in this case will
bypass that throttling that is being imposed by your isp which is really unfair in my opinion
so 4.22 megabits per second without a vpn and when using a vpn on the paris server it's a it's 5.13
uh 4.67 on the new york server and 5.38 on the new zealand server now of course
you know typically when using a vpn you'll notice a drop of around 10 to 30 percent that is usually
excellent anything beyond 40 to 50 to 60 percent uh speed drops is considered uh quite terrible
so with surf shark you won't be seeing any speed drops beyond the 30 35 at worst so typically my
speed without uh the throttling would be not 4.22 but it'd be around 5.7 5.8 megabits per second
and right here we're seeing uh the true speed here five point thirty eight five four point six seven
and five point thirteen all better than my uh true speed without a vpn it's not exactly my true speed
but this is the throttle speed so this is a great example uh to just to show how vpns can bypass
the throttling imposed by many isps around the world so when it comes to speed you can be sure
that surf shark does very well and i am using the best performing protocol which is the wireguard
protocol which is why which is what i recommend most of you guys use okay so let's get into the
streaming and taunting capabilities of surf shark uh with regards to the servers they all support
peer-to-peer activity and they are all going to give you the ability to bypass your restrictions
i was just connected to the new york server earlier and i was able to gain access to the
u.s netflix library hulu disney plus so yeah no worries at all when it comes to bypassing such
geo-restrictions it's very easy and with regards to peer-to-peer activity it's also incredibly
easy to protect yourself while torrenting and it will all allow for peer-to-peer activity but it
won't allow for port forwarding due to the risky nature of port forwarding you won't be able to
port forward so you won't have a good time seeding your torrents after you're done with the download
but you'll be able to download torrents without any bandwidth limits which is great now let's get
into the features of surf shark and how they can be useful to you now you have obviously
over 3 200 servers in 65 countries which is a very decent variety of countries and servers
and you have static ip servers which will give you the same ip address so frankfurt 3 will give
you the same ip address every time you return to it whereas the regular servers will give you
dynamic ip addresses which are constantly changing okay now with multi-hop this will
route you these servers will write your connection to two servers rather than one for extra security
and with regards to uh settings you will notice that we have plenty of options here very good
basic options so you've got uh clean web which will block basic ads here and there uh not the
best ad blocker but it's best coupled with your own browser ad blocker for the best results you
have a kill switch which will cut your internet connection if the vpn disconnects unexpectedly
preventing any leaks from happening now it's very rare that your vpn especially a reliable vpn like
surf shark will disconnect but in the event that it disconnects it will also cut your connection
to prevent any leaks especially if you're in a censorship heavy country this will be very useful
okay you have a handful of protocols i would definitely recommend using wireguard it's uh
you can use automatic which will typically write you to either icaf2 or wireguard but i prefer
to use wireguard because it's the best performing protocol at least for me it works almost you know
90 over 90 of the time and now you have bypasser which is essentially split tunneling which will
allow you to choose which applications are routed through the vpn and which are not so you can have
specific applications routed through the vpn while the rest of your connection can bypass
the vpn tunnel or have specific applications you know the other way around have specific
applications selected applications bypass the vpn while the rest of your connection is routed
to vpn so this can be a very useful feature and not only applications you also have the option to
have specific websites and ip addresses bypass the vpn while the rest of your connection is routed
through the vpn tunnel you also have a handy feature here with the speed tests which will
save you time manually testing the servers it'll just give you the best servers around and you get
rotating ip which will automatically rotate your ip address while your vpn location stays the same
helping you cover your tracks even more and noblers mode will help you bypass censorship
firewalls such as the great firewall of china if you are in a censorship heavy country so yeah surf
shark is overall considering the pricing it's one of the best budget vpns personally i think
it's a great bang for your buck and perhaps the most attractive feature of surfshark is
the fact that it will allow you to secure an unlimited number of connections with just a
single subscription so i really like that about nordvpn it gives you the ability to just
share your account very generously with your friends and family and all that comes with very
attractive pricing that will definitely suit your needs without breaking the bank so that'll be it
for the surf shark review it is just overall a great vpn now if you're looking for the fastest
speeds i mean the only i guess downside to surf shark is that it is definitely not the fastest so
not as quick as nordvpn for example the privacy policy isn't exactly the most strictest of all
not as strict as expressvpn for example but as an as a whole package i think surf shark just offers
a whole lot of value considering the pricing uh so yeah it's just a wonderful vpn wonderful
budget friendly vpn that gets the job done at the cheapest possible cost without sacrificing much on
uh performance security or features and server variety for that matter
and of course they do offer a 30-day money-back guarantee on all of their plans so you can try
it out for 30 days risk-free and they have a 24 7 live chat support right here at the bottom right
if you would like to uh you know talk to them you have any questions or
ask them about the refund which they'll process within three to four business days it's a very
straightforward procedure just ask them for the refund they might ask you a question or two
and you are good to go so that'll be it for this video again you'll find a link in the description
down below which will give you a bit of an extra discount so feel free to take advantage of that
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