Mastering a new app is always stressful.
Twice as much if doing something wrong means damaging your online privacy.
To help you guys out, I'm going to show you how to use Surfshark VPN.
From the main screen to the depths of the security settings and through.
All additional features as well.
First, though, we're going to skip the straightforward Surfshark download
and install process and jump right in to the Surfshark tutorial,
starting with the main screen of the app.
As much as I like this UI, it has a lot going on, so let's go through
the important stuff from right to left.
This mix of red and black.
On the right is the Quick Connect menu.
If all you want from Surfshark is hiding your IP, rerouting your connection.
And applying encryption, you can just click this button and call it a day.
Alright.
It's going to automatically choose the fastest server.
If you click the change button,
you can pick the country to use by default instead.
There are more than 3200 servers in 100 countries though.
Try not to get lost in this list.
Once you're done,
two more settings await you at the top, it's kill switch and no borders.
Clicking either one is going to send you to the settings menu,
but don't worry, about those options for now.
We'll get to them later.
For now, let's focus on the kill switch. This feature prevents leaks in case
In case your connection breaks and your VPN turns off.
Instead of defaulting to your real IP and revealing your information.
Kill Switch will just disable
Your internet connection to avoid unprotected data transfer
until your VPN is back online.
This kind of issue is rare, but it's a guarantee of your security,
Just keep this feature on at all times.
Clicking on the No Borders button on the main screen.
Will also send us to the settings.
This feature is useful for bypassing restrictions at workplaces, schools.
Or even whole countries, if you don't need that, feel free to disable it.
If you know just this menu, you already can use Surfshark reliably.
To boost your online security and privacy, so if that's what you need,
check the description below
And grab a Surfshark coupon to help yourself out, it's on me.
Now this VPN tutorial is not quite done with the main screens.
Okay, below the server search bar you might notice four options.
This first just shows us a list of locations the recently used ones
The recommended ones, either the closest or the fastest ones.
If you click static IP, the Surfshark app will show you a list,
of severs with a single IP only.
Typically, if you reconnect to the same sever through the main list.
You will get a signed a different address each time, but with static IP.
It stays the same every time,
which is useful for websites that track this kind of stuff like,
some streaming platforms. For example,
Surfshark has a lot of static IP servers across six different countries.
Multi-hop essentially means two servers together, so double
the encryption and the rerouting.
While there are presets available, Surfshark recently introduced dynamic,
Multi-hop so you can choose which servers to connect together yourself.
If none of the presets work for you, just make your own.
Finally, dedicated IP is a static IP but only for you, no other user is going,
to be able to use it. But it's a paid edition,
, and you can only choose between 11 different countries.
If you don't need a specific IP, in one of those countries you probably,
don't need this.
Now let's go deeper. Going straight into the Surfshark VPN tutorial,
For the settings menu, launch on startup and Auto Connect are pretty self-explanatory, and we already covered Quick Connect,
Let's skip right to clean web.
If you're wondering, does Surfshark have ad blocker, then this is the answer.
Enabling clean web will make sure that you block ads, trackers, and malware
when you're connected to a VPN.
Recently, Surfshark has updated this feature to the 2.0
Version, but only for the browser extension.
Let's quickly go through the new addition's data breach, and malware alerts.
These are very simple.
One shows if the website you're visiting was breached recently, and
the other monitors
Your online activity and downloads detecting malicious activity.
After you finish up with Clean web scroll down past Kill Switch and right
to the protocol choice.
Now there are two options here OpenVPN or WireGuard.
I recommend using WireGuard for most cases, as it's the
most modern option with the best balance between performance and security.
One more feature to cover is bypasser, also known as split tunneling.
Other VPN apps, and this one allows you to choose which apps or websites
should be connected through a VPN server.
Really straightforward in case you only need your torrenting app or your
streaming websites to use the VPN connection.
The last two options to cover are LAN visibility, which makes your device
impossible to connect to through a local connection and rotating IP.
This one is useful if you need to retry a connection to a particularly
stubborn website without changing your location.
Finally, it is time for this Surfshark tutorial to cover the four
tabs on the left. They are part of the Surfshark one bundle.
It's a cybersecurity suite, so alert is a feature that protects your
identity by detecting data breaches associated with your email address.
Search is a secure search bar that you can use to get information without
any biases usually pre-set in Google search so no advertisements or profiling.
Also. That's great.
Surfshark one's biggest addition, though, is Surfshark Antivirus.
A full built in antivirus with real time protection and malware scan.
It's been audited by AV-test as well, showing very good results across
the board. Using it is also easy
just enable real time protection to make sure you won't
catch a virus online or run scans if you're worried that your device is,
already infected.
Finally, there's also alternative ID.
It's a feature allowing you to create an alternative persona to use online.
Considering how prevalent phishing attacks and data fraud are these
days, this is a great feature
to have, and it's really easy to set up.
Just click the button and then fill in these fields to create a
a new fake online personal.
Keep in mind that even if Surfshark one is a separate package
with an extra price tag on top of it
on top of it, you can still use the discount from
the description to bring that price down now.
Now that we've gone through all the features of Surfshark VPN,
let's go through
a few real life examples showing how to use Surfshark for streaming and
torrenting.
If you're preparing for a long and arduous process, don't.
It's easy.
Yeah, just connect to a country of your choice.
Let's do the UK for the 5:00 BBC iPlayer streaming, though you could
actually do any other streaming.
Surfshark covers a lot of options, once connected, I can proceed to the website,
i can log in and watch anything I want uninterrupted.
Notably, if you tried accessing BBC iPlayer or any other streaming
platform beforehand,
it's better to clean the cache and cookies just before attempting to
connect with a VPN.
That's because those streaming websites may use your browser cookies to
find out your previous
login location, and then deny you access again.
But if you're planning to use Surfshark for torrenting, there are no issues
that to worry about now, while P2P is allowed on all servers,
if I type P2P in this search bar,
Surfshark is going to suggest the best torrenting servers for me, and
as soon as I choose the closest one for the best for the best performance,
I can, go ahead and
boot up my torrenting app.
Remember that if you want to use Surfshark only for torrenting, you can always
set that through the bypass or feature.
For me, both streaming and torrenting with Surfshark are fast and seamless,
and compared to my speed, without a VPN, I barely lose 10 to 15% of my speed when using Surfshark,
so my connection is always fast enough.
And hey, in case you want to stream from your smart TV, Surfshark has apps for most Android based TVs,
or you can use the smart DNS feature to connect to other types of smart TVs and even gaming consoles.
As you can see, even though Surfshark does offer a lot of features, you can learn
how to use Surfshark VPN pretty fast.
Most of the features and elements of the app are very straightforward
and have built in explanations.
More importantly, this is one of the only apps offering all essential security tools
for 2024, not just VPN, but also antivirus and identity protection.
What do you think?
Is this convenient enough to have all the apps you might need in one place?
Let me know in the comments below and remember to like and subscribe when you're there,
and I'll be coming back with more reviews and tutorials, so hope I see you there!
Bye!