how's it going everybody welcome back and some of you guys have been asking should you pay for a
vpn service now i know a lot of vpns in the market today offer free versions of their services but of
course you know while that might be enticing to get the problem with free vpns is that you know
whatever they offer is actually antithetical to the very purpose of using a vpn in the first
place and that's because free vpns are not going to offer you the best servers they have they will
not allow you to most of them at least won't allow you to download they will limit your speeds they
will limit peer-to-peer activity in fact they'll ban peer-to-peer activity on the free versions of
their or the free servers of course to reduce the load which is understandable they won't allow you
to bypass streaming services and you'll be limited in terms of servers so you can't really bypass
geo restrictions or if you want to gain access to specific servers you really won't be able to
do that since you'll have limited servers at your disposal and of course the biggest problem of all
is that free vpns collect your data and sell it to third-party companies so i have an article here
from malwarebytes and it gets into how 21 million free vpns users data got exposed and this was a
huge thing in the vpn industry and it was just a huge mess lots of email addresses ip addresses
phone models device ids passwords and just so many things got exposed and it was just a huge mess in
the vpn industry this is where a lot of people kind of woke up to free vpns but you know if you
haven't been keeping up with that kind of news you might still think hey why not use a free vpn
it's free which is completely understandable now i just wanted to explain to you guys even paid vpns
of course there are plenty of articles by the way that just show all kinds of reasons why a
free vpn is while it it may seem like it's free you're actually going to be the product so all you
need to do really the the best thing a free vpn is hoping for pretty much is that you use their
service and all they need to do is just log your data and log your activity so that they can sell
it to third-party companies now another thing you want to keep in mind is that even with paid vpns
or the premium version of these free vpns won't uphold their privacy policy if you see a vpn that
claims a no logs policy and you see that they don't have any evidence to back up that privacy
policy and that evidence usually by the way comes in the form of independent audit reports so i have
these examples here with expressvpn nordvpn and surfshark so an independent audit report will
offer evidence that the vpn does not collect any user data or anything that can be linked back to
a specific user's ip address or identity and this is how you can kind of confirm that these vpns do
uphold their privacy policy and it's not just an empty claim and i've been testing a whole
bunch of vpns over a couple of dozen vpns and i've narrowed it down to these three as the best vpns
overall for privacy for performance and speed for streaming and torrenting capabilities and
as you know they have a bunch of security features of course to keep you as secure as possible you
know with expressvpn for example it's a vpn that focuses more on privacy and anonymity and ease
of use nordvpn uh puts a lot of emphasis on bonus features and performance thanks to the
nord lynx protocol and surfshark will be the best available option if you want to save money it's
really just the best budget vpn you can get at the cheapest possible cost while not sacrificing
on what a premium service looks like and surf shark is just the perfect example of a budget vpn
that still offers premium features and premium performance so if you guys are interested by
the way in learning more about these vpns you'll find the top three vpns video it's a full in-depth
review of all three vpns and you'll also find links to pricing discounts if you're interested in
any of those hopefully you guys learned something from this video please be careful when trying to
get yourself a free vpn i mean you can try any of these vpns by the way 30 days with a 30 day money
back guarantee you can technically try them out for free you can try them for 30 days and then get
yourself the refund if you're not interested in renewing your subscription and again if you guys
are interested in uh the discounts for the long term plans you'll find them in the description
down below besides that combo if you have any questions i'll be happy to answer all the like
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security thank you guys very much for watching and i'll see you in the next one have a wonderful day