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Five Best VPNs for Windows 2018
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May 29, 2025
You know you need a Virtual Private Network to ensure your privacy - particularly on public wi-fi networks - and to allow you to sidestep censorship and other content filters. The Internet should be open and accessible to everyone, and there's no better way to ensure that than to have your own VPN. But which one to choose? Working with vpnMentor, tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ identifies five excellent choices for you to consider: ExpressVPN, NordVPN, IP Vanish, CyberGhost and Trust Zone. Which is best for you? Watch the video and see them all in action so you can make a smart choice. You can also learn more about all of them - and find valuable coupons - at http://www.vpnMentor.com/ or check out two of my faves at: http://www.vpnmentor.com/reviews/nordvpn/ http://www.vpnmentor.com/reviews/expressvpn/
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Dave Taylor here and I want to talk
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about VPN services again you know a VPN
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is a virtual private network and if
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you're not using one you really should I
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don't care for your male-female a super
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tech geek or a casual Internet user you
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really need a VPN to protect yourself
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they give you privacy security they make
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it impossible for other people to tap
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and see what you're doing why wouldn't
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you be using something like this problem
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is there are hundreds of VPNs out there
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and it's really hard to figure out which
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is which so I went through and looked at
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a ton of different options and here's
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what I was looking for I was looking for
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something that was fast and reliable and
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from a trustworthy company and finally
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had a ton of different points of
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presence
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what's a point of presence so a VPN
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works where it connects from your
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computer to another server somewhere on
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the Internet and then from there all
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your queries go out so from the sites
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that are tracking you they see you is
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coming from that server rather than from
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your local machine totally makes sense
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the more servers that a company has the
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more options you have and ideally they
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should be international so if you're in
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an area where there's protected internet
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access you can use a VPN to look like
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you're coming from somewhere else super
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handy now the question is how do you
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figure out which ones are the best so I
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looked at some of them but I started by
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going to a site called VPN mentor where
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they aggregate hundreds and hundreds of
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customer comments and ratings and
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feedback and they come out with their
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own list of the best VPNs and give you
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the you know sort of the pros and cons
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of each one and so using their data and
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then doing a little testing of my own I
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came up with this list of the five best
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VPN services out there today and they
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are you ready for this
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expressvpn Nord VPN ipvanish cyberghost
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and trustzone now let's look at each one
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step by step
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this is expressvpn and as you can see
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you can choose location with a simple
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button and there's a lot of choices in
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the US but there's lots of choices
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overseas when you're ready click connect
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and takes a couple of seconds to
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establish a connection and remember it's
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an encrypted connection and we're just a
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second or two away and we should be up
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and running and there we go Express VPN
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is protecting every connection that I'm
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using and every program that's going on
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the Internet is also going through this
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VPN expressvpn is number one in terms of
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connection speed and server distribution
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but it's also an expensive choice still
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speed makes it a smart investment
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this one's Nord VPN and it is a very
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different appearance you can see that
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most of its points of presence are
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actually overseas and that's ok because
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it gives you lots of options we can go
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to the US and while they show one VPN
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server they really have plenty and it's
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already connected Nord VPN is fast easy
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and the interface is easy to work with
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just as importantly Nord VPN is one of
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the very few VPNs that consistently
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works with Netflix fast reliable highly
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secure and reasonably priced this is
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number one for many VPN users
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this is ipvanish and it's a pretty
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straightforward interface let's go ahead
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and look at the server list by clicking
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on server list you can see I've already
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been looking around a little bit there's
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quite a number of different choices here
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again tends to be mostly European but
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there's a big global presence to connect
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it's easy enough I just choose quick
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connect and have chosen the best city
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and let it do the work one click it
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establishes the protocol and it takes
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just a couple of seconds usually and now
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I'm connected through ipvanish what it
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shows is more fun - it shows the amount
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of traffic you're using on the VPN
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network I find that pretty interesting
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ipvanish is another popular choice but
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be aware that they don't offer support
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in
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languages other than English and it
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tends not to work well for users based
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in China but for us users it's a great
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option
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this is cyberghost and its interface is
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very different it's fun actually and I
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really like the little pictures to
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connect you just choose surf anonymously
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and now there's all these other things
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you can do but let's look at all the
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different country choices as you can see
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lots of countries around the world but
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I'll leave it as automatic and click on
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start anonymous surfing
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it connects pretty fast once we're
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online you'll see you're connected what
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country are connected through and so on
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and it even opens up a web browser in
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incognito mode which is super handy if
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you're on a budget or seek a user
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friendly choice you'll appreciate that
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we name cyber ghosts best VPN value for
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its range of servers capabilities and
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consistently affordable pricing finally
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this is trust zone and it's a smaller
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more elegant interface and pretty easy
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to work with
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none of these VPNs are particularly hard
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to figure out and all of them work
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across a wide variety of servers and
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platforms too if we go to servers then
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we can go through all their different
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servers and as you can see in the United
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States there are lots of different
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servers they can access when we're ready
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to connect we simply click on the TZ
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shield and it goes through and
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authenticates your account analyzes your
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IP gives you a new IP establishes the
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connection and so on it takes me longer
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to explain what it's doing than to
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actually connect now we're connected to
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the VPN trust zone this is running and
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ready to go here's something cool trust
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zone will let you pay with Bitcoin and
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it gets very high customer ratings for
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attention to customer privacy that's
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great if you want to stay anonymous
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online at this point you still don't
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have a VPN you need to just get one pick
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any of these five they're gonna work
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really well and they work across wide
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variety of platforms so if you're a Mac
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user and we had a Windows demo it
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doesn't matter it works on that too and
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vice-versa so everything we looked at
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you can also get VPNs for your mobile
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devices so if you
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a lot on your tablet you can get a VPN
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for that too all the same issues all the
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same benefits so then if you do have a
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VPN then my question to you is how does
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it compare with the ones we just looked
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at because my guess is that there's
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probably a better choice than the one
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you're using and one of the ways to tell
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a course is to pop over to VPN mentor
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and look at the ratings for your VPN
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service and you really should anyway
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even if you're not planning on changing
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because you might be surprised at the
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overall industry reputation for the
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software you're using some of these
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companies are not exactly doing what
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they're promising that they'll do in
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terms of privacy and that's a huge issue
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to me so please go check it out finally
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thank you for watching really appreciate
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you checking out all of this information
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we've been sharing on VPNs it is really
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important you really do want a virtual
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private network and again I'm going to
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encourage you to check out VPN mentor
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cuz there's so much data there's so many
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different customer feedback and customer
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ratings and everything and not only that
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but VPN mentor has a ton of coupons so
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for a lot of the VPNs we talked about in
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this video you can get a substantial
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discount on your first year or on your
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subscription so definitely worth
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checking out just for that and finally
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please do me a favor more importantly do
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yourself a favor and stay safe out there
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