how's it going everybody welcome back today i'm going to be comparing both of these vpns with
each other expressvpn and proton vpn uh i'll be looking into the privacy policies speed streaming
torrenting capabilities as well security and features of each of these vpns so that you guys
can hopefully uh figure out which one could be the best choice for you and your situation so if you
guys are interested in any of these vpns you'll find links to special deals and discounts in the
description down below and if you're looking for less of a brief look into each of these
vpns you'll find individual full in-depth reviews in the description as well okay so we're going to
keep it brief in this video and let's start with the privacy policy so both vpns are independently
audited although we've got uh slightly more audits with uh expressvpn i believe will only have one
or two audits i think it's just one audit with uh proton vpn though it is open source and they have
a very clean slate they have transparency reports they also seem to have a very good privacy policy
there's nothing off about what uh data what kind of data they collect and of course it's the same
with expressvpn though i think the only uh edge that expressvpn has over proton vpn uh with
regards to the privacy policy proton vpn obviously it's a very solid privacy policy they've got going
on here and they're not afraid to audit the uh application and make it open source for everybody
to kind of examine so the only edge again that expressvpn has over proton vpn with regards to the
privacy policy is the andre karlov investigation where in turkey in 2017 the turkish government
seized an expressvpn server and they were still not able to extract anything out of their
servers because it's a true no-locks policy and thanks to their ram disk servers they were not
able to of course extract anything and speaking of ram disk servers uh proton vpn also run their
servers in ram disk mode and if you guys are not familiar with what i mean by that it's just
that these servers that they operate do not have any hard drives attached to them but rather a ram
disk so there's really no physical drive for data to be stored on these disks and whatever little
amounts of data it's stored on ram disks will be erased with every machine reboot okay so in terms
of their privacy policy everything looks good with both vpns so everything looks pretty good
in terms of the privacy policy uh on both ends right here so okay so moving on to speed keep one
thing in mind that when you're doing these speed tests uh it might vary you know depends on the
uh server you're connecting to and how far you are from it it depends on the speed tester you're
using it depends on your own connection and also keep in mind that the faster your connection the
more download speed you're going to lose so if you have perhaps a hundred megabits per second you
might uh lose about 20 30 whereas if you have like me right here a base speed of 5.75 megabits per
second you might not be losing uh up to 30 40 but rather 15 and that is the worst i got of course
so 15 uh overall so let's let's take a look at it here with expressvpn i tested two servers for the
sake of time i don't want to make this video too long so with the italian server with expressvpn
it's i got a 4.99 megabits per second right here from 5.75 to 4.99 um and with the new york
server with express i got 4.91 with proton with italian server at 5.06 so slightly better than
uh expressvpn here though with the new york server it dropped to 4.88 so with further servers
it seems like expressvpn is able to perform a little bit better though i think both vpns are
doing pretty well specifically because uh i think proton vpn's addition of the wireguard protocol
they recently added the wireguard protocol it seems to be a true wireguard protocol and it is
performing exceptionally well uh so yeah that's definitely working out very well for them now the
lightweight protocol right here with expressvpn is not a true wireguard protocol it's a
expressvpn proprietary protocol but it is performing almost as well as a wireguard
protocol okay now when it comes to streaming services uh you know surprisingly enough i
was able to unblock the american netflix library with proton vpn so proton vpn does
that's pretty well it does really well actually with uh unblocking streaming services and i was
able to unblock hulu hbo max as well as amazon prime video so yeah great stuff overall i think
the only difference between both of these vpns when it comes to unblocking streaming services
is that expressvpn will be able to unblock a wider range of streaming services simply because
it has 34 more countries than proton vpn and of course more servers so expressvpn gives
over 3000 servers in 94 countries whereas you've got just over 1400 servers in 60 countries with
proton vpn but overall both vpns perform very well with unblocking streaming services so when it
comes to security and features i think both vpns are fairly bare bones so both vpns will have a
handful of protocols right here so with expressvpn i've got a handful of protocols you're not going
to need more than a lightweight udp honestly it's just you know select the best performing
protocol and you're good to go you have a kill switch which will stop your internet connection
if the vpn disconnects unexpectedly and split telling will let you manage which applications
are routed through the vpn and which can bypass the vpn connection uh and of course you know you
you've got the very simple design with express vpn very bare bones very simple just made specifically
to be as easy to use without any configuration needed as possible so with proton vpn here
you do have this user interface which is uh pretty responsive overall it is pretty quick you have a
bunch of information here uh you do have the kill switch you have net shield which is an ad blocker
and usually vpns with ad blockers are not you know they're usually not the best ad blockers
uh so it's best to combine them with your own uh extension a browser extension for an ad blocker so
secure core servers will give you more uh security so these are apparently according to proton vpn
these are servers that are under higher levels of security uh even physically speaking apparently
they are in uh more obscure places so that's according to proton vpn i mean yeah i'll just
take their word for it so uh if we go to settings here we've got of course dns leak protection ipv6
leak protection you know so it's very standard stuff you also have that here in uh expressive
vpn you've got split tunneling of course which is the same uh it works the same as uh proton as
expressvpn excuse me in connections you do have the wireguard protocol and openvpn protocol just
stick to wireguard really it's the best you do get custom dns servers so you are able to change
your dns if you would like to and you have custom dns so you do have the ability to change your dns
uh if you would like to it's an easy way to change dns so that's about it really for features
expressvpn is for the most part a little bit more compatible with more devices and again with
regards to servers express has over 3 000 servers in 94 countries and proton vpn has just over 1400
servers and 60 countries so expressvpn will allow to secure up to five devices per subscription
and with proton vpn well it depends on which package you decide to go for the pricing plans
are a little bit different now with expressvpn it's pretty simple with the pricing plan if you
click the link in the description you're going to be able to get three extra months for free for the
one-year plan uh the six-month plan of course is as you can tell ten dollars a month for the six
month plan and you can get the one month but the cool thing about this is that they're all
covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee so it's a very risk-free process and you can just
straight up reach to the live chat support if you have any kind of problem with the vpn or
if you just want to ask for your refund so yeah it's pretty simple with proton vpn they don't
exactly have a 30 day money back guarantee you are able to claim a pause so what you can do
is pause your subscription and you can resume it later there's really no refund process here
um so that's one thing also as you can tell they have uh the free uh package here
which gives you three servers in 23 servers in three countries one vpn connection and a throttle
speed with the basic uh package you'll get higher speeds only up to 350 servers in 40 countries
two vpn connections and no still no ability to on block streaming services only with the plus
package here which is six dollars a month for the one year plan uh surprisingly enough it's almost
as expensive as expressvpn so uh yeah though you do get 10 vpn connections so double that
of express vpn uh you get high speeds and they're pretty high speeds as you uh can tell here with
these speeds uh and then you are able to of course get access to the uh streaming service support
and then you have the visionaire plan which comes with the proton meal now if you want to save up a
little bit more you can go with the two-year plan which drops the price to five devices
to five dollars per month but yeah overall i mean i don't know it really is up to you i personally
uh find expressvpn much easier to use um it has never failed me with regards to unblocking
streaming services it does have more countries so it is able to support more streaming services
and unblock a whole bunch of netflix libraries though with proton vpn it's also pretty good so
i mean yeah overall it's up to you whether or not you want to go with express or proton i'm
just here to present the information and it's up to you whether or not you want to go with either
of those i think both vpns are super good if you ask me personally if i'm going to pay six dollars
for proton vpn for the one euro plan i'd rather just spend 67 more cents and get express vpn but
that's just me personally and with expressvpn you get a 30 day money back guarantee no matter
which plan you get whereas with proton vpn you only get to pause the service and get to
reuse it later uh so yeah there's really no refund with proton vpn so keep that in mind
so yeah that'll be it for this video again if you guys are interested in any of these vpns you'll
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