how's it going everybody welcome back and today i'm going to be comparing expressvpn and nordvpn
to hopefully figure out which one could be the best choice for you depending on your situation
i'll be talking about the features servers and privacy policy but if you're looking for full
individual reviews especially if you want to look into some of the speed test results you'll find
the full reviews in the description down below you also find links to pricing discounts
in the description as well okay so let's get started with the express vpn privacy policy
both privacy policies let's see what they're about now you can be sure that both of them
do have a strict no logs policy and they also both have independent audits to back up their claims so
with regards to providing evidence that they do uphold their no logs policy and protect their
users information and data they do uphold that and the independent audit reports are available uh
and and the independent audit reports are available for the public to view and there's
really nothing out of the ordinary with the uh but with both privacy policies really right now
one thing that kind of distinguishes expressvpn apart from nord vpn is the 2017 case when the
turkish government seized an expressvpn server as part of an investigation but they were still
unable to extract any information out of the server thanks to the true no locks policy that
expressvpn upholds so i would say both vpns are super solid with regards to the privacy policy
and nulux policy but this is the one thing that expressvpn has over nordvpn which is the real
life stress test that expressvpn uh went through now with regards to speed there's no contest here
nordvpn is 100 faster than express vpn now how much now how much faster while expressvpn is very
quick thanks to the lightweight udp protocol it's not exactly as quick as nordvpn and it
doesn't really compete that much now i would say easily expressvpn is about 10 to 15 percent slower
sometimes 20 percent slower than nord vpn now i don't want to get in too much detail with regards
to the speed test again you'll find the speed test in the review below but overall nordvpn will be
maintaining a speed drop between 10 and 25 because well if you didn't know when you use a vpn because
of the encryption that your data goes through it slows down your speed but that slowdown is
kept to a minimum a little bit better with nordvpn than expressvpn while expressvpn is very quick
you might be seeing uh speed drops upwards of 40 percent whereas with north vpn you'll be seeing
um better speed drops around the 10 to 20 25 okay but both vpns are actually
quite a bit fast so you can stream in hd or full hd or 4k even granted your internet connection can
handle that kind of streaming uh intensity in the fir granted your initial speed can actually handle
uh heavy streaming in the first place okay so both vpns are super good and in terms of streaming
these vpns are perfect for streaming all kinds of uh services you know if you're
trying to stream netflix hulu amazon prime all kinds of netflix libraries using netflix's
reference expressvpn is able to unblock up to 18 netflix libraries and about 10 to 15 with nord
give or take so yeah both vpns are super capable with regards to unblocking streaming services
and in terms of peer-to-peer activity they are also both supportive of peer-to-peer activities
fully no throttling no bandwidth limits you can download to your heart's content both expressvpn
and norvpn perform well in china the main express vpn website is actually blocked by the chinese
government but the company provides an alternative address for users in china expressvpn is very
aware of the challenges of keeping its service available in china although the service works in
the people's republic there are sometimes server outages however both of these services have a
solid record when it comes to getting around newly introduced blocks from the chinese government the
proprietary application of expressvpn is actually on by default you don't have to configure anything
it's just a plug-and-play vpn in china whereas with nordvpn you might have to download the
special version of norvpn which is identical to this one but it's made for censorship-heavy
countries like china now with regards to the uh features first of all you have over 3 000
servers in 94 countries with expressvpn and over 5 000 400 servers in 60 countries with nordvpn so
plenty of servers and countries in both except that you have 34 more countries with expressvpn
and over 2 000 more servers with nordvpns so pick which one you prefer depending on your needs with
expressvpn you get basic features such as first of all a handful of protocols you can go with
automatic but lightweight udp is the fastest one and you have the kill switch and split tunneling
both features are also available in nord vpn the kill switch will stop your internet traffic if the
vpn disconnects unexpectedly preventing any leaks from getting out of your uh device and split time
will allow to choose which applications are routed to the vpn and which are not so you
can have specific applications use the vpn tunnel while the rest reconnection is left untouched by
the vpn tunnel or vice versa if you'd like it's a very useful feature and that's pretty much it you
have nothing to worry about here in advance unless you want to opt out of sharing the crash report so
that's pretty much it and you get the shortcuts here which will show up once you connect to the
vpn they'll show up right here which can be just a very kind of convenient uh shortcut to websites
and whatnot and now and there we go that's how the they show up so let's just turn it off and
you'll be able to secure up to five devices per subscription with expressvpn and it is very
compatible with nearly every single modern device you can think of and including nordvpn of course
it also is compatible with many devices and it'll allow to secure up to six devices per subscription
but what you get with nordvpn is a bunch of extra features such as specialty servers double vpn will
write your connection to two servers rather than one for double the security onion or vpn will
give you the security of the tor browser on top of the encryption of the vpn peer-to-peer specialty
servers for peer-to-peer activities though even regular servers do work with uh peer-to-peer
activities you don't necessarily have to be using the peer-to-peer servers you have the ad locker
you have dedicated ip servers if you switch to open so they'll show up right here and these are
pretty much static ips which are unchanging rather than using the dynamic ips with these servers
the regular servers will change ips every time you disconnect and connect again so whereas dedicated
ip servers will always give you the same ip address now i definitely recommend using nord
links for the best performance of course you have a kill switch as well as an app kill switch which
will call selected apps when you disconnect from pvpn or the connection drops unexpectedly rather
than disconnecting your entire connection and you have split tunneling of course the same thing as
express vpn in advance you have an easy way to change your uh dns with custom dns and obviously
the servers if you are in a censorship heavy country though you don't really need to use
these if you feel uh like the regular servers don't work and if obfuscated servers don't work
and you're in a censorship heavy country you can simply just download a special version of
nordvpn which is available on the website which is identical to this application it's just made
to work in censorship heavy countries and that's pretty much it for these vpns as you can tell
both interfaces are super easy to use you have your map design with nordvpn and the overly
simplistic design with expressvpn which can be a hit or miss depending on what kind of user you are
expressvpn really doesn't care about appearances and they're just focusing for the most part on
performance whereas nordvpn is also focusing on speed and performance but they do give you a nice
map design so it really depends on what you're looking for out of your vpn do you want anonymity
and security overall or do you want features and speed over everything you know it depends on what
you're looking for i personally use expressvpn because i like to unblock all kinds of streaming
services um and that's just my personal preference but nordvpn works perfectly fine as well both vpns
are overall very reliable they both have 256 bit encryption superb reliability dns and ipv6 leak
protection they're both outside the 5 9 and 14 i's jurisdiction they have a strict no locks policy
easy to set up very compatible excellent 24 7 live chat support and a 30-day money-back guarantee so
you are able to try out these services risk-free for the first 30 days again if you're looking
for a premium anonymity and privacy focused service that has plenty of countries and the
necessary security features such as kill switch and split tunneling and of course it's fast enough
to get you through streaming without buffering go with expressvpn but if you're looking for
a service that secures one more device so six devices per subscription unlike expressvpn's five
well it has 34 less countries it does still have over 2000 more servers than expressvpn and you get
all these bonus features such as specialty servers custom dns the app kill switch and whatnot so
just weigh out your options and see which one you like both vpns are overall just superb
so that'll be for this video again you'll find links to pricing discounts in the description
down below so feel free to take advantage of those while they last and you also find full individual
reviews if you'd like to learn a little bit more about these vpns with regards to their privacy
policy speed streaming taunting capabilities as well as security and features so that'll
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