Request submitted to BBFC

Original Complaint: This is genuine VPN service and only works by disabling "malicious websites" on Vodafone home broadband. This puts us on more risk and will not be able to block actual malicious websites ISP Response: Review comments: No reply from Vodafone

BBFC response

    Hello,

Thanks for your referral.

The BBFC looked at https://surfshark.com/ on 03/03/21.

We noted that the site offers a paid-for VPN service. The site offers
information on how to subscribe to the service and a description of the
features offered by the service. The website contained no promotional
references to illegal activity, nor did it actively include instructions on
how to use its service to commit an offence, or to avoid detection when
committing an offence. We found no material that we classify 18 in line
with Part B of the Classification Framework.

We will inform Vodafone - as well as the other mobile network operators -
of this adjudication immediately; usually, it takes about 24 for the
network to update their filters.

Best,

Jonny

Current status

ISP	Last Checked	Status
Three	26 April, 2024 at 11:20	OK
Vodafone	24 April, 2024 at 11:00	OK
EE	24 April, 2024 at 11:00	OK
O2	19 April, 2024 at 10:20	OK