Surfshark VPN is now cancelled, refund pending. Not surprisingly, it was far more difficult to cancel than it was to subscribe, it took a lot of digging through submenus to finally get to where I could connect via chat to a live person. I had made the original purchase through Surfshark's website, and it turned out that since I hadn't purchased the VPN through Google Play or Apple Play, their service bot was totally beyond its pay grade, and God help you if you were connecting through a PC and not a smart phone or a tablet. I spent about an hour taking care of it.

On the plus side, the person I finally connected to on chat was delightful. Since I turned off Surfshark, I have had no more recurrences of the Google warning.

tanstaafl.