Surfshark VPN beats latest NordVPN and ExpressVPN deals with its early Black Friday sale

As always, the biggest savings are reserved for those willing to sign-up for a longer contract. If you want maximum flexibility, the rolling one-month contract with Surfshark costs £11.49 for the exact same package, showing the colossal discount on offer this Black Friday.

Surfshark doesn't limit the number of devices that you can use its VPN service on at any one time, so you can sign-in on your iPhone, Android, Smart TV, Fire TV Stick, iPad or tablet, Wi-Fi router, and dozens of other popular gadgets with the same subscription details.

Surfshark offers fast RAM-only servers in more than 100 countries, so you can spoof your IP address and browse as if you've visiting dozens of different countries with minimal impact to the broadband speed you pay for at-home. Surfshark also includes its Alternative ID system in every subscription, which generates a separate set of details to sign-up for online accounts without ever using your real name, email, or address.

The entry-level bundle is perfect if you're looking for a solid, cheap VPN to encrypt everything you do online — masking your activity from advertisers, broadband companies, and governments or unlock streaming from anywhere in the world. It's also more affordable than the NordVPN Black Friday deal, which also launched in October — one month before the sales typically start on November 29, and award-winning ExpressVPN.

However, Surfshark offers two other price plans: Surfshark One and Surfshark One+.

As you'd expect, these subscriptions all ship with access to Surfshark's popular VPN, but bundle additional apps and features. With Surfshark One, you'll also gain access to real-time credit card and ID breach alerts from the Dark Web. Surfshark monitors forums and other sites frequented by hackers and will preemptively warn you when your details have been shared in a data breach.

Surfshark One — just £1.89 per month in the Black Friday sale, when you agreed to a two-year plan — also comes equipped with 24/7 antivirus protection, webcam protection to ensure cyber criminals can't peer through your camera and secretly film you — a common tactic in blackmail scams, and malware protection.

And finally, the top-tier Surfshark One+ plan comes with everything already listed, plus a bundled subscription to Incogni. Available as a standalone subscription, this system will pressure data brokers to delete everything that have stored on you.

Everything siphoned by data brokers is publicly available or purchased from other companies, like credit card providers, which package up and anonymise some purchasing data. It can include details like your ethnicity, religion, marital status, hobbies, shows you're watching, online purchases you’ve made, address and phone number, search history, and political affiliation.

This data is then sold to the highest bidder. Thankfully, under privacy laws, data brokers are required to wipe your information from their database when you ask them. If you want to start removing your information from these vast repositories, you’ll need to look-up the data brokers operating in your country and send individual opt-out requests to each one.

Or, with a service like Incogni, it will bombard hundreds of data brokers worldwide with the necessary paperwork to ensure that everything they have stored on you is wiped from their records.

Incogni usually costs $7.49 per month as a standalone service, while Surfshark One+ will set you back £2.99 per month in the Black Friday sales event. That's an 81% discount and you'll get an extra 6 months access for free.

VPNs were once only seriously used in enterprise settings, but as more of everyday has moved online, millions of everyday people have installed these clever apps on their smartphones, tablets, and PCs to protect themselves and unlock advanced features.

For those who don't know, VPNs enhance your privacy online by masking your IP address — the string of numbers assigned to every device, the second that it connects to the internet.

This seemingly random number contains information on the device that you're using to connect to the internet as well as your current location. It's the IP address that allows online map services to pinpoint your current location, or retailers and restaurants to show the locations nearest to you.

VPNs assign a new IP address to your devices and encrypt all of your internet traffic — hiding you from everyone, including your broadband provider. Outside of the home, VPNs provide security on public Wi-Fi networks, which are notorious for hacks, and protect against data leaks.

By manually switching your IP address, you can bypass geo-restrictions to access content from different regions. Netflix offers a different catalogue of shows, documentaries, and films in every country worldwide — and using a VPN to appear as if you're jetting across the planet in seconds means you can watch all of it.