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Surfshark on a Smart TV: The 3 Ways In, and Where Each One Falls Apart

Photo by ROMAN ODINTSOV on Pexels The short answer first If you searched for Surfshark smart TV setup because you just unboxed a new TV and want the VPN working tonight, here's the fast version: Surfshark has a native app for Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, and for Android TV devices (which covers a lot of Sony, TCL, and Hisense sets, plus the Chromecast with Google TV). If your TV runs one of those two platforms, install straight from the app store on the device and log in. Done. If your TV runs LG's webOS, Samsung's Tizen, Roku OS, or Apple TV's tvOS, there's no native Surfshark app for you, and no amount of searching the app store will change that. You'll need one of the two workaround paths I get into below. Neither is difficult, but each one has a real limitation worth knowing before you commit an evening to it. I've written before about smart home gear that quietly stops working when your Wi-Fi drops, and this is a similar story: the ...