With Amazon Prime Day just around the corner and Black Friday not much further down the road, it feels like sales silly season is well and truly upon us.
And when it comes to VPNs, cybersecurity giant Norton has got ahead of the game. It's delivering discounted prices on its most comprehensive VPN plans – and the savings are exclusively available to TechRadar readers.
If you've already been considering signing up to one but haven't yet settled on which VPN deal is for you, we've outlined a handful of reasons below why Norton might be your best bet right now.
1. The offer has just been extended to more users
When our exclusive Norton VPN deal originally became available, it was only open to cybersecurity seekers in the US and Canada and Australia. We suspect that must have left those in the UK spitting out their tea in disgust.
Thankfully, this pan-Atlantic wrong has now been righted, with Norton casting the offer all the way across the ocean.
It means that prospective UK users can now sign up to a whole year of Norton VPN Plus for just £29.99 – that's the equivalent of a mere £2.50 per month for all your IP masking, geo-unblocking, scam scuppering needs.
Want to add parental controls to help protect your kids and a location supervision tool to stay informed about your child's whereabouts? Upgrade for an extra £5 (or, effectively, 41p a month) and get Norton Ultimate for £34.99.
You can see full UK, US, Canadian and Australian pricing at the bottom of this article.
2. Norton VPN keeps getting better, with more improvements on the way
In August, we released the results of our latest testing of Norton VPN in a revised in-depth review running to more than 4,000 words. To save you wading through it, we can give you the potted version here.
Our expert testers said that Norton VPN is "vastly improved", putting "some of the best VPNs available in its crosshairs" thanks to its "fast speeds, simple apps, and impressive unblocking."
Rating it 4 stars out of 5, we acknowledged that there are still areas for improvement (e.g. more server countries, better OpenVPN speeds) but lauded the fact it had "brought in a spread of features you’d expect to see in a top VPN, alongside some features some top VPNs don’t think to include".
Plus, when we spoke to Product Lead Himmat Bains earlier this week, he confirmed that works are in the pipeline as we speak to release improvements to its proprietary Mimic VPN protocol and its Double VPN feature.
3. Norton has just had its no-logging policy verified... again
In a world of misinformation, deepfakes and AI-generated content that is virtually impossible to distinguish from real life, trust is a commodity that feels hard to come by these days.
Acknowledging that they are yet another tech company to whom you're potentially trusting your data, one way for VPN companies to prove that they can be trusted is to commission independent audits of their logging policies and procedures.
And that's exactly what Norton has just done, bringing in independent cybersecurity firm VerSprite to rummage around in its entire VPN infrastructure, including servers, log retention, anonymization policies and data flow. The verdict was almost completely perfect across the board and, when VerSprite did find a potential privacy gap (uncovering scenarios where IP addresses could be logged), Norton addressed the issue with haste.
Furthermore, the company has also announced that it is to increase the cadence of its transparency reports to every three months instead of six.
4. There's some great geography-specific content on the way
If you're in the UK and your excitement for start of The Celebrity Traitors next week is getting way to much to contain, it's seriously going to prick your bubble if you're going to be away on holiday or business – the BBC iPlayer simply won't work outside the UK. Thankfully, Norton VPN worked really well for watching iPlayer from abroad during our most recent testing, meaning you won't have to miss out.
It's a similar story if you're a massive college football nut but find yourself outside the US. The phenomenon of NCAA sports doesn't travel that well around the globe, meaning you're likely to find your usual coverage blocked if you try to watch when overseas. And the same goes for the NRL Premiership Finals in Australia. Enter Norton VPN!
5. The provider now has one of the most affordable VPNs out there
This exclusive discount has catapulted Norton VPN into the same conversation as the providers heralded as having the best cheap VPN services. True, it still doesn't quite compete on price with the entry-level products offered by Surfshark or Private Internet Access. But for a mere $2.50/£2.50 per month for Norton VPN Plus you get the benefit a huge range of features that go above and beyond a simple encrypted tunnel: cloud backup, AI-powered protection against scams/malware, dark web monitoring, password manager.
Whatever way you spin it, the offer brings the pricing below giants of the VPN world such as NordVPN (starts at $3.09 per month) and ExpressVPN ($3.49 per month).
And if you're thinking to yourself: "Well, I'll just go and get a free VPN," we strongly recommend that you consider their dangers and shortcomings before you settle – they certainly won't suit everybody.
Our exclusive Norton VPN deal pricing
Plan | Usual price | Offer price | Effective monthly price | Saving |
|---|---|---|---|---|
$109.99 | $29.99 | $2.50 | 72% | |
$129.99 | $39.99 | $3.33 | 69% |
Plan | Usual price | Offer price | Effective monthly price | Saving |
|---|---|---|---|---|
£79.99 | £29.99 | £2.50 | 62% | |
£94.99 | £34.99 | £2.91 | 63% |
Plan | Usual price | Offer price | Effective monthly price | Saving |
|---|---|---|---|---|
$144.99 | $59.99 | $5.00 | 59% | |
$234.99 | $79.99 | $6.67 | 66% |
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