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ExpressVPN review: A classic service that prioritizes privacy and security
This impressive VPN offers premium service at a premium price
Published March 13, 2026 4:16AM (EDT)
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Having been around since 2009, ExpressVPN is a well-established player in the VPN space that has earned itself an excellent reputation for privacy and security. Based in the British Virgin Islands — outside of the Five Eyes, so no mandatory surreptitious intelligence-sharing — ExpressVPN provides fast speeds, unblocks every streaming site you can throw at it and provides RAM-only servers, which ensures that a user’s data is wiped at every reboot and prevents data leaks.
It also adheres to a strict privacy policy and has passed multiple third-party audits. ExpressVPN provides native apps for most users and is available on a wide array of platforms, including routers. If you encounter any issues while using ExpressVPN, a 24/7 online chat is available to assist you
It supports well-established and open-source VPN protocols with OpenVPN, WireGuard (added recently) and IKEv2, while also offering its homegrown VPN protocol, Lightway, which it has open-sourced. More on that later.
There are many upsides with ExpressVPN, but there are some downsides, too. ExpressVPN supports a limited number of features compared to its competition and charges more than most.
Let’s see if its offering is still compelling in 2026.
Key Features & Technology
ExpressVPN’s main selling point is privacy and security. The service takes technical measures to harden the security of its server network. And it goes above and beyond (most of) the competition in that regard.
Computers log data by default. User intervention is required to turn that off and ExpressVPN does that, as do many other VPN providers. But on top of that, with ExpressVPN, all of its VPN servers run from volatile memory (RAM) and are booted from read-only disks. This pretty much guarantees that no remnant data (logs) can exist on the system’s hard drives, which is something the more privacy-focused users will appreciate.
Couple the above with ExpressVPN’s pretty stringent privacy policy, you begin to understand that ExpressVPN is more of an “old school” VPN provider, for which security and privacy are a VPN’s raison d’être. I like that.
That being said, it does provide some convenience features. As such, its streaming performance is remarkable. I was able to stream media from every single service I tried while on VPN. It also includes its MediaStreamer feature for devices that don’t support VPN. MediaStreamer is a Smart DNS service that changes your DNS........