JANUARY 2019 PCWorld 83NordVPN for Androidto 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 U.S. 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 $63 per year for seven
simultaneous device connections, which is about
average for a service with this many features.
BEST FOR NETFLIX
STREAMING: NORDVPN
NordVPN (go.pcworld.com/nrdv) is easily one
of the most popular services around. I still have
reservations about it as the founders and upper
management choose to remain anonymous.
There’s no doubt, however, that it’s a well-built
service. The company offers 59 country
locations with more than 5,000 servers. It also
promises that its service will work with Netflix.
It doesn’t offer dedicated servers for this.
Instead, Netflix is just supposed to work no
matter which server you’re on.
NordVPN also chose to give its apps a
uniform design, but interestingly the Android
version is more like the desktop than vice
versa. At the top is a world map that you