how's it going everybody welcome back today we're taking a look at the nordvpn
application so the nordvpn apps share the same overall appearance and functionality
across both mobile and desktop platforms the consistency is nice you won't experience a
learning curve when switching devices and the design ties everything together quite comfortably
once you start up the application and log in you're greeted with a stylized world map that
is dotted with trees boats and these little dots here which represent the countries or servers you
can zoom in and out as you would like and it's pretty intuitive overall especially for brushing
up on your geography real quick of course you can click on any of these dots to connect to whatever
whatever server you would like or you could just hit the quick connect and it will connect
you to the best server as determined by nordvpn and while the map is attractive and simple to
control the location pins or dots here can get a little bit crowded and hard to select if you're
zoomed out uh so particularly in server dense regions like europe there are no country labels
either so you'd have to just kind of zoom in and figure out especially if you're a little
bit rusty on your geography but then again i'm not going to complain because you know in a way you
are brushing up on your geography as you try to figure out which dot belongs to which country so
i'm not going to complain much here it's more efficient though admittedly not as visually
appealing to use the app server list rather than the map itself the alphabetical list allows you to
pick a country and see the server locations within it from there you can choose for example whichever
server you would like to use depending on load uh and if certain countries let's say have more than
one location like let me go to the states for example you can pick a let's say salt lake city
and you'll pick whichever server suits you best based on load for example so that is pretty handy
and whichever server you were connected to you will find all of them in the recents right here
and if there's let's say a special server or a certain server that you would like
to always connect to you can just let's say remember the number and you'll be able to just
kind of look it up so i'll just put in 1452 and i'll get that server immediately which can be nice
if you would like now you can't add it to a favorite list but having numbers is pretty uh
useful so that is pretty cool now if you go to the settings you'll see toggles for various options
starting with the general you have your cybersec now unfortunately we don't have a dark mode here
at night it could put a little bit of strain on your eyes because of the bright background
so what you can do is either make it smaller i would really appreciate a dark mode though
so this is definitely i use a dark mode in every single application i can use it on so definitely
would like to see it in the future so again we have an ad blocker here you got auto connect uh
of course the selection of protocols here i would definitely recommend using nord links at all times
uh since it's the it really makes nordvpn the fastest the vpn in the industry you've got
an internet kill switch and an app kill switch the internet kill switch will disable your internet
connection when the vpn disconnects unexpectedly the app kills which will disconnect selected
applications when the app disconnects or when the vpn disconnects unexpectedly split tiling
will allow you to choose which applications go through the vpn tunnel in which don't which can be
very useful and in advance you've got custom dns and obfuscated servers if you're having trouble
connecting to regular servers and a censorship heavy country like china so obfuscated servers
will just be servers that are only available on the openvpn tcp and notice how when i turn on
obfuscated servers i will have only the obfuscated servers available on my map so keep that in mind
if you ever turn on obfuscated servers and wonder why all of your servers are gone
it's just because the obfuscated server option was on and now you have access to all of your
servers again so yeah it's a pretty simple ui even if you go on to the mobile application you'll
notice that it is literally just almost the same exact ui here with the map and everything you just
zoom in pick your specialty servers whatever it is it is incredibly similar so you already have
any trouble using the mobile application if you're coming from the desktop you can just download it
and you'll know how to use it right away so that'll be it for this video if you guys are
interested in learning more about nordvpn you'll find a review down in the description which will
give you more of an in-depth look into the privacy policy speed streaming and taunting capabilities
as well as security and features and if you guys are interested in nordvpn
and if you guys are interested in getting yourself a nordvpn subscription you'll find links to
special deals and discounts down below so feel free to take advantage of those while they last
thank you guys very much for watching i'll see you guys in the next one have a wonderful day