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Black Friday shoppers to splurge £2bn more online this year amid site crash fears

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Black Friday shoppers are set to splurge a whopping £2billion more online than last year amid fears sites could crash. With scores of High Streets closed, Brits are set to spend £2million-a-minute online creating unprecedented cyber traffic which will likely see shop websites overloaded.

Experts predict web shopping will skyrocket by 70 per cent on last year, with electronics and clothing sites to be most popular - and therefore most vulnerable to crashing.

2019's Black Friday saw Currys PC World's site and NatWest's site and app both crash, while the likes of Debenhams and John Lewis have gone down previously.

Last week's much-anticipated PlayStation5 launch led to Currys implementing an online queue system, while the likes of Game and

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