how's it going everybody welcome back and today we're going to be talking about
express vpn and hotspot shield and hopefully after this video you'll be able to kind of
figure out which one could be the best choice for you i'll be talking about speed servers
support ease of use and pricing but if you're interested in kind of learning
more about these vpns with regards to their privacy policies speed streaming and torrenting
capabilities as well as security and features and including speed tests obviously be sure to check
the reviews down below i'm going to include a full review of expressvpn and hotspot shield down in
the description if you'd like to learn more and you'll also find links to pricing and discounts
including the discounts that you'll see here today okay so expressvpn is widely considered to be the
best vpn currently available both in terms of speed and security hotspot shield is a popular
free vpn but how does their paid service stack up against the best of the best being
expressvpn here it is indeed a tall order now these two vpns are vastly different in almost
every way really especially regarding security hotspot shield only offers 128-bit encryption
and a proprietary catapult hydra option being the protocol of course um and if we just go to the
settings right here and you go to the protocols there you can see their proprietary hydra protocol
as well as the ik ev2 protocol you don't really get much more than that besides the kill switch
and the smart vpn which is pretty much split tunneling uh so that's what you get really now
in terms of features these are the features of hotspot shield you don't really get more than
that with expressvpn except for the fact that everything that expressvpn does it just does
better so more servers more protocols and if much easier to use um split tunneling feature
very obvious very self-explanatory when it comes to using it as well as a kill switch right here
and you've got a handful of protocols if you're interested in kind of
switching it up or you can just use automatic and you have more servers so with regards to
servers just talking about servers you've got over 3000 servers in 94 countries with express vpn and
over 1800 servers in 80 countries with hotspot shield besides that in terms of privacy and
security expressvpn is very well known for their uh well-rounded privacy security and anonymity
policies they do have a strict nalox policy and they uphold it to the best of their abilities
and they do have obviously evidence to back that up with their independent audits there are no
independent audits with hotspot shield and they have been caught in a controversy before where the
center for democracy and technology issued an open complaint to the federal trade commission uh where
they were talking about concerns uh with regards to unclear data sharing and traffic redirection
occurring in the free version of hotspot shield which is the one you're seeing here
called hot hot spot shield basics so um yeah when it comes to their free version they do have some
questionable history uh with regards to their premium version i mean if you're going to that's
that's the point here really if you're going to pay for a pyramid premium version of a vpn will
that be uh hotspot shield or will that be express vpn um now yeah in terms of features let's say
security features and just general customization they're pretty much the same thing it's just that
expressvpn gives you more variety when it comes to protocols and more servers and locations as well
as reliability much more reliable when it comes to the speed and unlocking streaming services
so with regards to speed again if you're looking for a speed test
check the description down below for full review where you'll be able to get all these details but
just quickly really uh expressvpn is always going to be faster than hotspot shields faster by about
20 to 30 percent really which is a lot and with regards to unblocking streaming services
expressvpn is known for being one of the best if not the best vpn out there to unblock streaming
services especially if you like to unblock hulu amazon prime video us netflix and whatnot
you have plenty of power here with expressvpn uh plenty of unblocking georestriction unblock power
and with regards to support both of these vpns are strong in the area of customer support
expressvpn gives its users a 24 7 live chat support email ticketing and a large knowledge base
on its website uh hotspot shield offers the same support as express vpn with a slightly smaller
resource section in terms of pricing and ease of use let's just get through the pricing real quick
this is the monthly the yearly plan excuse me or the premium hotspot shield plan um and this will
come this will let you secure up to five devices per subscription and here you can see all the
benefits and obviously unlimited bandwidth and whatnot and uh you get all these extra little
features by the way with the premium version so it says here four applications included and that'll
include a vpn um an anti-virus a spam call blocker and a password manager so for eight bucks a month
if that's something you're looking for then definitely yeah it may be worth your money
but if you're just looking for a good vpn that unblocks reliably that reliably unblocks uh geo
restrictions and such uh and you want something with a clean history a vpn provider with a clean
history when it comes to uh preserving your data and upholding a true nalox policy then expressvpn
will definitely be the one here especially that it's just you know it's cheaper and with the
description with the link in the description below you'll be you'll be able to claim three
extra months so it's not just 12 months it's 15 months for the same price hotspot shield is more
expensive um and that's probably because they're trying to kind of sell you the package here the
entire package for uh applications rather than just one but if you're looking for a vpn then you
probably weren't looking for these applications in the first place and with regards to ease of use um
no other application no other vpn can really beat expressvpn now hotspot shield is pretty easy to
use as you can tell you've got a speed test here account options the rest of the applications
here that you can see um just some about us a support little uh part here where you can just
access whatever support option you're trying to access including the live chat but you will
have to subscribe to premium in order to access the live chat and finally you have your options
which are not much okay and that'll be it for hotspot shield with regards to expressvpn
uh if you notice here they're both very similar but the thing about expressvpn is that you don't
really have to read you don't have to get through any icons in order to understand what this vpn
does because the moment you go to your options you don't have any icons you don't have anything all
you have are these options and for the most part you're just going to go to either vpn locations
or options right here to just get through whatever options you're trying to get through you don't
even have to click the vpn locations here you can just select this just click that and there you go
you can access all the locations you don't really ever have to go to options ever again you can just
select the best performing protocol or just go with automatic i definitely recommend lightweight
udp it works 100 of the time for me at least and that'll be it um whether you want to turn on the
kill switch or split tunneling it's just a matter of clicking and uh yeah the split tunnel will kind
of the split telling feature will memorize your uh selected applications so if you're trying to just
work with qubit torrent let's say here you can do that so yeah it really is as simple as it gets so
that'll be it for this video and by the way both vpns will secure will allow you to secure
five devices per subscriptions and with regards to money back guarantees they both have money
back guarantees hotspot shield with a 45 day money guarantee and like expressvpn with a 30 day money
back guarantee so it is a risk-free procedure uh if you would like to just try out one of
these vpns for free okay so that'll be it for this video again 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 comment below if you have any other questions i'll be happy to answer all of them like
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security thank you guys very much for watching i'll see you in the next one have a wonderful day