how's it going everybody welcome back and today we're going to be talking about
free vpns and why they're not exactly your best choice for protecting your data online
also make some recommendations for uh premium vpns that you can try out for free
uh at least for a month thanks to their 30-day money-back guarantees so we'll get into all of
that before being if you guys are interested in any of the vpns mentioned today so 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 all right so let's get into it now okay now the prospect of using a
free vpn understandably appeals to everybody but did you know that 38 of free android vpns contain
malware and this is according to this research right here by cyro and this means that while most
free vpns grant you access to some geo-restricted sites they do so at the expense of your privacy
which is scary with both android and apple stores striving to eliminate these potentially harmful
vpns from their store you need to be careful when using a free vpn because there are risks
that come with using a free vpn and the first risk obviously is going to be breach of privacy
you probably use a vpn to protect your sensitive information when browsing that's what a vpn is
for however some of the free vpns don't live up to this promise they have malware that collects your
data and sells it to advertisers and this violates your privacy policies and beats the very point of
having a vpn of course other potential risks when using avpn are dns leaks now if you didn't know
25 according to a study by top 10 vpn which i'm going to show you right here 25 of the
free vpns tested had issues with dns leakage and this means that your browser history and
data traffic is visible to third parties and your isp and since most vpn users don't know how to
test their connections their security remains at risk when using a vpn now testing a vpn uh for
dns leakage is very simple just look up dns test connect to your vpn and uh you know you can use
dns leaktest.com or any other website but if in the dns test you find that your own relocation is
found then that is a dns leak test however if you don't see your relocation
or anything that indicates your relocation then you are good to go and most free vpns are not
going to be doing a great job at that now another risk to using a free vpn is that some free vpns
have also been found to contain third-party trackers that track your location and your phone's
status they do this by asking for some outrageous permissions like permissions to your messages
camera and microphone these are but a few of the many risks that many users expose themselves to
every day while using a free vpn while all of them prove to have proper encryption tunneling
there's no point in having a vpn that steals your data and there have been many studies done
on various vpns to find out their privacy and security strength with free vpns some of them
were found to be using malware to leverage on the large pools of users so even though you're
not paying upfront the free vpns ensure they get something from you and that's going to be
data and of course using such data this is how free vpns sustain themselves so you know they're
going to give you that free service but at the same time they have to take something in return
so that is going to be your data and they're going to sell that to third parties for money
uh and some free vpns obviously as i said before they contain malware free vpns are not going to
provide proper security due to expensive server maintenance and because you know they're going to
limit the security on the free servers because the more secure servers are going to be reserved for
paying customers other limitations with free vpns uh could entail things such as limited bandwidth
now for example proton vpn is a free vpn with unlimited bandwidth however you're not going to
get access to most of the server search is going to get access to three locations and
about 23 servers so you won't be getting access to uh many locations and obviously you have the
inability to bypass geo restrictions and you're probably going to be seeing if you're trying to
let's say unblock hulu or netflix and whatnot you will be met with a message that looks like this
telling you that you know you seem to be using a vpn or a proxy of some sort
so you're not really going to be able to access uh streaming services as reliably as a premium vpn
and when using other vpns let's say free vpns that may be able to unblock geo restrictions
not very reliably though you will be met with um bandwidth limits such as 10 gigabytes a month
which will amount to you know roughly a few episodes uh before your bandwidth runs out and
you have to wait till the next month now let's talk about some of the key differences between
uh free vpns and premium vpns now i do have three recommendations for premium vpns and
that will be expressvpn nordvpn and surf short and these are all independently audited vpns and
i highly recommend watching the reviews below all of these vpns have been audited independently by
third parties testing their server infrastructure as well as their data collection practices while
rather lack of data collection practices so these vpns have been tested by third parties and you'll
be able to find the full review in the description down below for each of these vpns express northern
surf shark uh so that you can get more of an in-depth look into the privacy policy speed
streaming and taunting capabilities as well as security and features so let me just tell you
now that we've gone over the ways on how free vpn services make money out of their users information
it's clear that they are not a good choice for protecting yourself against cyber security threats
and keeping your online activities anonymous keep in mind that running a dependable vpn network
costs money now all of these vpns do have a 30-day money-back guarantee on all of their plans so you
can just get the one-month plan you don't have to commit to a six-month one-year or two-year plan in
order to test it out so you can just get one month a single month and if you're not satisfied you can
get yourself the refund either way whether it's not satisfied or not it is a no questions asked
kind of policy so you're able to just access their 24 7 live chat support all these vpns do
have that and you can ask them for a refund and they'll refund you within three to four
business days so obviously these are not free vpns you can try them out for free for 30 days
at the end of the day vpn companies are not charitable institutions and everything from
running global servers providing user support and developing applications all of that costs
money and users end up paying for them in one way or another so is a paid vpn any different well
quite a lot as you might imagine and i highly recommend uh using them over any other free vpns
you know there are plenty of the business and these three vpns are in the business of providing
real data protection and privacy online especially if you're in a censorship heavy country and if you
are in a censorship heavy country just go straight to expressvpn it's definitely going to be the best
especially if you don't want to go through any kind of manual configuration as you might have
to with surf shark uh and with northvpn you'll just have to download a special version that works
in censorship-heavy countries it's going to look the same it's on the website so most reputable
paid vpn services don't log any information at all resulting in truly anonymous user experiences
paid vpn services use top-tier digital security protocols because that is the
single product or service they offer such protocols include aes 256-bit encryption
vpn tunneling and end-to-end encryption these features make it extremely difficult if not
impossible for unscrupulous individuals to get a hold of sensitive user information online there
won't be any limitations in terms of bandwidth and speed and such tactics are only purposely
employed by some free vpn companies to compel their users to upgrade to the paid plan but
but at the end of the day if you're going to pay for a free vpn you should just go with the premium
one it's going to cost relatively the same if not cheaper expressvpn nordvpn and surfshark cater to
a wide range of audiences if you're looking for the best of the best you just go with expressvpn
if you're looking for something with more features you can go with nordvpn if you're looking for the
cheapest alternative that just gets the job done without sacrificing much on security privacy
or features for that matter you should just go with surf shark again again be sure to check the
description down below if you'd like to learn more about these vpns and if you'd like to go
straight to pricing discounts you'll also find that in the description as well and keep in mind
that all these vpns do have a 30 day money back guarantee and a 24 7 live chat support where you
can ask for the refund and again they'll refund you within three to four or five business days
just less than a week depending on when you uh ask for the refund but you will probably not ask
for the refund when you find out that these vpns do bypass geo restrictions i mean i know i myself
like to use a vpn to unblock streaming services and these vpns usually do the job very well
my personal choice is expressvpn but it's up to you whether you want to go with express in order
to search depending on your needs and free vpns are definitely not going to be able to afford to
run hundreds of servers all over the world that are able to bypass the geo-restrictions imposed
by streaming services because that will cost a lot of money to maintain uh so that'll be it for this
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