ISSUE 72 • ANDROID ADVISOR 77content, you have to click the location selector in
the bottom right of the screen and choose the server
location from there.
Choosing the Streaming friendly tab you can, for
example, pick servers that are optimized for US Netflix
or Hulu, servers in France for RTL, or BBC’s iPlayer in
the UK to name just a few. In total, CyberGhost offers
58 country locations with more than 3,000 servers.
Dipping into the app settings you can activate ad
and tracker blocking, malware protection, and data
compression for faster performance. The company
says data compression is only for images and only
over HTTP, and no logs are kept.
CyberGhost’s privacy policy says it won’t log your
online activity, IP address, timestamp or session
duration. The company does, however, log connection
attempts that include the time, country of origin and
your CyberGhost app version. It also logs successful
connection attempts. CyberGhost says it does this to
monitor service performance.
CyberGhost charges £55.08 per year for seven
simultaneous device connections, which is about
average for a service with this many features.
Best for Netflix streaming
NordVPN
Price: £64.56 per year from fave.co/3ckR6rg
NordVPN is a popular VPN service with good speeds,
the unbelievable ability to access US Netflix from
abroad, and an interface that suits both power users
and novices. The company is fairly reluctant to say