Try counting the companies that have your email address. There’s the store you bought one thing from in 2019, the ticket site, an app you opened twice. Any of them can leak it, and you tend to find out when the spam picks up, or a breach notice arrives. Surfshark’s answer is to stop giving them the real one. Every plan, including the $2.49 a month tier, has an alias identity with its own email address that forwards to your actual inbox.
You sign up with that. When the alias starts collecting junk, you know which company sold you out, and you can switch it off. There’s a bigger reason to bother than junk mail. Your email address is the login on nearly every account you own. Every company holding it is another chance for it to end up in a credential dump. Handing out an alias keeps the address attached to your bank and your accounts out of that pool.
Nothing comes off your card today either. All three plans open with a 7-day free trial, so the total at checkout today is $0.00.
Which Plan Actually Suits You
- Starter, $2.49 a month. The VPN plus the alias identity. That covers you if the goal is private browsing and no longer feeding your address to strangers. The 27 months come to $67.23, paid once.
- One, $2.79 a month. Thirty cents more adds antivirus and a search engine that doesn’t build a profile on you. It also watches the accounts you already have and tells you when one gets caught in a leak. $75.33 for the same term, and most people get the most out of this tier.
- One+, $4.49 a month. This is for anyone whose details are already circulating. It adds automated removal requests to data brokers holding your information, plus identity theft coverage. $121.23 across 27 months.
Read This Bit Before You Commit
These are introductory prices. Month 28 renews at Surfshark’s standard rate, which is higher, and the figure sits on the checkout page before you confirm anything. Make a note now if you want the option to shop around later. The trial is what keeps this low-stakes. You get a week, and nothing is charged upfront.
That’s long enough to learn whether an alias identity fits the way you use the internet. If it doesn’t suit you, cancel inside the week, and the charge never happens. More detail on the apps and the network in our Surfshark review.
