- May 19, 2016
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Is it a good VPN ?
Is it a good VPN ?
Surfshark VPN 81% off today
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- Feb 25, 2017
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Absolutely. Great speeds, fast customer support and privacy-wise it's also one of the best out there due to their no-logs-policy and as they are based on the British Virign Islands which are known for strict privacy laws. So for the price that is even cheap without a discount it's definitely worth trying.
- May 19, 2016
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- Feb 25, 2017
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Not really in my opinion. Surfshark Alert is just a worse version of Have I Been Pwned and Surfshark Search is basically just a private search engine using bing search results which can be replaced by DuckDuckGo or Startpage for example which are completely free. So there is no point of spending extra money for those services.
Just letting you know it's been this price for a while. If you want something slightly cheaper (with longer term) you can go through stacksocial, they have 3 & 4 year plans that end up being slightly cheaper per month.
Surfshark is supposed to be excellent, but they completely fell flat when I tried them out. I was so sure they were going to work out well for me, too.
Surfshark is supposed to be excellent, but they completely fell flat when I tried them out. I was so sure they were going to work out well for me, too.
- Aug 27, 2020
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How good is it compared to ProtonVPN & NordVPN, if anyone has an opinion, please? 
- Apr 1, 2019
- 2,765
Almost anything is better than Nord. This company is much more transparent and has accountability.How good is it compared to ProtonVPN & NordVPN, if anyone has an opinion, please?
- May 19, 2016
- 1,574
You are right it is a "fake" permanent discount
Today the same discount than yesterday Exclusif : économisez 81% sur le VPN - Surfshark
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- Jan 21, 2018
- 814
I think so, I've been using it as my main VPN for about 6 months now and am very happy with it.
I second these comments
Agreed.
I steer clear of Nord due to their dubious tactics in the past but I have had a ProtonVPN account for a few years. I'd say that they are fairly even on security, speeds and UX but would choose SurfShark over Proton for their range of servers that suit me better.
- Feb 25, 2017
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As the others said it's not really hard to beat NordVPN. Proton VPN was always too expensive for me so I never tried it, but Surfshark is a little more basic but also much cheaper. I would go with Surfshark if your VPN subscriptions run out.How good is it compared to ProtonVPN & NordVPN, if anyone has an opinion, please?
- Aug 4, 2016
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VPN's are very personal, I have a couple of months left of SurfShark left & for me it's one of the worst I've ever used, apart from unusually slow speed etc - IMO the GUI is dreadful esp on hi-res - Yet others on here love it, always get a trial or a method of money back as with any VPN you may love it or not?
And yet Nord works the best for me for the price, and I'm ACTIVELY trying to replace them. Surfshark didn't work, Keepsolid didn't work, etc etc. Sadly, I just re-upped with Nord for $36 after cash back, for 2 years. $18/year isn't bad at all.
Oh, I tried contacting Surfshark about the atrocious pixelation when I was streaming, and their solution was to bypass my PiHole on my network and use OpenVPN as my DNS server. No thanks.
- Feb 25, 2017
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As long as it's working well for you. I only had problems with it and think that they focus more on marketing than developement.
Yeah, they seriously screwed up my billing, and placed an unauthorized charge on my account. After that screw up, I was looking to replace them ASAP (current sub runs until 11/2021), but I simply couldn't find anything that could reliably replace them, that didn't cost an arm & a leg.
- Feb 25, 2017
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Proton is decent but expensive so that's not the right one for you. Maybe you want to try IVPN or Windscribe, depending on what your main activity will be with the VPN.
- May 16, 2013
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I use them for Netflix and such and they use Cloudflare services
Who's thinking that you can get privacy with a VPN service is crazy...you can't beat billions with ~100$/year
Who's thinking that you can get privacy with a VPN service is crazy...you can't beat billions with ~100$/year
Well, I just reupped with Nord for $18/year. Hopefully Surfshark figures their crap out when it comes time again.
- Jan 21, 2018
- 814
I've found that of the UK servers the Glasgow ones are sometimes extremely slow, at first I put that down to them being the furthest from me physically in the the UK and I can easily switch to another UK server. The Manchester ones are usually faster than the London ones, the latter are the nearest ones as the crow flies, that could be just down to user load. But, both the London and Manchester ones are fast enough for me if I want a UK server. The Belgian ones are what usually come up as being the fastest on offer by Surfshark. The double hop options that include a UK hop are generally fast too, including the India > UK ones.
- Feb 26, 2021
- 806
My opinion, pair Surfshark with Viscosity VPN and generate your own ovpn files. That way you get an actual killswitch and can use nextdns with surfshark, which you cannot do if you use the surfshark client. Wireguard does not seem that much faster compared to openvpn for me according to speedtest.net, so it's no real loss for me.
