how's it going everybody welcome back and today i'm going to show you guys the best vpns for
hong kong now recent years have seen massive protests by hong kong residents and a renewed
crackdown from mainland china's government into the semi-autonomous city this has led to concerns
that hong kong's special status will be eliminated together not surprisingly the intentions have
increased interest in vpns as a tool to evade censorship and protect online activities
that is not especially unusual these days it's common to see a spike of interest in vpns after
a major political change there was a similar spike in russia after the telegram messenger application
was banned some vpn companies have responded by pulling their servers from hong kong tunnelbear
said that it was spinning down its presence in the region and suggested that users connect to nearby
countries instead it has beefed up its presence in nearby regions to help support users in hong kong
both tunnel bear and other companies have said they are taking this action out of an abundance
of caution and that their servers contain no useful user information that could be
impounded by local authorities now vpns are handy tools for safely moving your data somewhere else
when you switch a vpn on at home it transmits your traffic from your computer to a server controlled
by the vpn service along the way it's protected with an encrypted tunnel preventing your isp
and anyone running your network from seeing what you're doing online now i cannot endorse a vpn as
100 safe and secure in the best of circumstances and i certainly can't test for protection against
a nation state to claim that a vpn could subvert such concerted surveillance would be a dangerous
assertion on my part but what i could tell you is that these three vpns are actually
some of the best vpns especially if you're in a censorship heavy country like china now express
nord and surf shark are all very unique vpns but uh and of course they do have hong kong servers so
if you go to all locations asia you do have hong kong servers in express vpn uh same with
nordvpn oops let's just go to china just like so and as you can tell here you do have a hong kong
location and it is the same with surf shark as you can tell right here with the hong kong server and
i'll talk about these vpns in just a minute but if you're interested in any of these vpns we'll
find links to specialties and discounts in the description down below as well as full reviews
if you'd like to learn more about these vpns with regards to their privacy policy speed streaming
toronto capabilities as well security and features and just to make a note a quick note if you are
looking for the best vpn for censorship heavy countries just go with expressvpn it requires
no manual configuration or any kind of adjustment in the settings to make it work in china
with nordvpn you'll just have to download the special version of nordvpn just ask their live
chat support and they'll provide it for you that version of nordvpn is identical to this one but it
just works it's just a specific update that works in censorship heavy countries and with surf shark
if the uh let me just show you if the no borders mode here doesn't work then you might have to
do some manual configuration in order to make surf shark work in censorship-heavy countries
such as china the great firewall of china makes things very difficult and that's why you might
have to do some manual configuration with uh surf shark but once done it actually works
very well and if you don't want to go through any kind of a configuration just plug and play just
go with express vpn okay so how do you know which one of these vpns could be the best choice for you
well it depends on what you're looking for out of the vpn now expressvpn has over 3000 servers
in 94 countries and will allow you to secure up to five devices per subscription expressvpn has
basic features such as the internet kill switch which is called network lock and express and
split tunneling if you're not familiar with these the kill switch will make sure that you're only
connected to the internet when you're secured by the vpn so if the vpn disconnects unexpectedly
it will also disconnect your internet connection making sure that you don't connect back to the isp
servers making sure that you don't connect back to your internet service providers servers and
only be connected through the vpn secured servers now split telling will allow you to choose which
applications are routed through the vpn in which are not so you could only have for example your
torrenting client router through the vpn while the rest of your network is left intact or untouched
by the vpn connection or the other way around where you could have select applications uh
bypass the vpn connection while the rest of your network is secured by the vpn okay so let's say
you're looking for a vpn that is a little bit more budget-friendly and that would be nordvpn with
over 5100 servers in 60 countries now even though north vpn has 34 less countries than expressvpn
as you can tell it is still quite the number at 60 countries you'll be able to secure up to six
devices per subscription though and a whole bunch of security features such as specialty servers
as you can tell here with a dedicated ip double vpn onion over vpn and peer-to-peer and of course
you've got an ad blocker right here and the very quick and best performing protocol
nord links keep in mind when you switch to nord links you will lose access to double vpn and
dedicated ip and unless you need these specific specialty servers i would just recommend that
you stick to nord links which is a very quick protocol uh in fact so quick that you don't
want to use anything else not only do you get the conventional kill switch but you also get the app
kills which will close selected apps when you disconnect from the vpn or the connection drops
rather than disconnecting your entire connection as it is with the conventional kill switch
split tunneling you've got also custom dns which is an easy way to change your dns and
obfuscated servers if you're in a censorship heavy country now if you're looking for the
most budget-friendly vpn that would be surfshark surf shark has over 3200 servers in 65 countries
which makes it a very convenient option for those wanting to secure a whole bunch of
devices with just one subscription because it will allow you to virtually secure an unlimited number
of devices with just one subscription and it being such a budget-friendly vpn without necessarily
sacrificing much on security performance or features for that matter makes it a very
enticing vpn for most people especially those that don't want to spend a whole lot at least on their
first vpn experience so you still get multi-hop and static ip which are the same as double vpn and
dedicated ip from nordvpn and if you don't know what these are by the way static ip will give you
well static ip addresses which means that these servers have ips that are set and do not change
ulti hop will route your connection to two servers as you can tell rather than one for double the
protection making it extra difficult to track you and in these settings here you will notice that
we still get whitelister which is split tunneling it's just called whitelister here
the kill switch an ad blocker as well as a handful of protocols for the most part you just want to
use the best performing protocol again that'll be the wireguard protocol it's so quick that you
don't want to use anything else you've got ik ev2 which is a good protocol it's pretty quick
extra security will be offered by openvpn both udp and tcp and shadowsocks will help you reach
banned websites if you're in a censorship heavy country though we will only secure your browser
traffic so keep that in mind and no borders mode will help you bypass the great firewall of china
if you are in china or any other censorship-heavy country for that matter uh and you know if you
notice that expressvpn doesn't really have any obfuscated kind of options here for obfuscation
and whatnot that's because expressvpn actually has obfuscation on by default it's always on and you
don't have to go through any sort of configuration or toggle any kind of option uh in order to turn
on all you have to do is download it and it will work whether you're china outside of china
and any other censorship-heavy country it doesn't matter that's of course part of the ease of use
with express vpn so that'll be it for this video guys keep in mind that all these vpns
are covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee so no matter which vpn you decide to go for you will be
able to claim the refund let me just show you guys very quickly so if i go ahead and get expressvpn
you'll notice that all these vpns it says there are 30 day money back guarantees on them so even
if you just go for the one month plan you will be able to claim the refund through the 24 7 live
chat support by the way it's the same with nordvpn and surf shark all you need to do is hover over
the bottom right and you'll be able to access the live chat support the 24 7 live chat support where
they will help you with your refund or any other question you might be having about
these vpns uh again you'll find links to special deals and discounts in the description down below
for all of these vpns and you'll also find full reviews that'll give you more of an in-depth look
into the privacy policy speed streaming torrenting capabilities as well as security and features
so be sure to check those out if you guys are interested that'll be it for this video comment
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