Reviews for Windscribe - Free VPN and Ad Blocker
Windscribe - Free VPN and Ad Blocker by Windscribe
Review by OlliWolf
Rated 5 out of 5
by OlliWolf, 7 years agoSo far so good. I haven't tested on any vid sites except Netflix though and otherwise have been using it for regular use. Windscribe has a certain server called Windflix for Netflix, but that comes with the paid service and so therefore Netflix will not function with it on. Windscribe quick enough for me too, although it doesn't have ipv6 yet. It does occasionally slow down, but overall the speed has remained constant and good for me. This VPN apparently only showed up in 2017 also, but from what I've read there is a plan to eventually implement the IPV6. Between the plugin and the Windows program, the IPLeak site seems to pull up alternate credentials for the IPV4, so I must assume everything works as it should. The program also allows you to tell it of an alternate web or socks5 proxy if you use something separate to send your connections through outside of the VPN itself. After first installing the program, I did have issues with the adapter disconnecting, but not able to connect back. I had to disable the adapter for Windscribe and then re-enable it in Networks and Sharing to get it to work right and I haven't had issues since. Having that go bad though, If I remember right, causes no web pages to load if it's having complications. I only experienced the problem once, so I don't quite remember how it was like. Anyway, all in all I am pleased with this VPN and it has received some good notice from reliable sources as a comparison to the popularity and abilities of Nord. I feel I could be content with this or Nord, but again.. I've liked what I've experienced with Windscribe so far.
4,005 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by RJ, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by bordard, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Luciano, 4 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Larry, 5 days agoEven when i reached the data limit for the month, IT DIDNT TURN OFF, didnt even let me turn it off by myself, i had to DELETE it to even fix the internet on here, DO NOT GET IF YOU ARE NOT PAYING, IF ITS FREE AND IT HAS A PAID PLAN IT IS HORRIBLE MOST OF THE TIME
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13658695, 6 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by ZevSua, 19 days agoУбожеское конченое фуфло. НА сайт захожу авторизуюсь. НА расширение авторизоватся никак не могу. Несколько десятков раз пробовал - нивкакую. Просто фуфло нерабочее
- Rated 4 out of 5by Vorona, 20 days agoFunktioniert gut, ein Stern Abzug, weil der "Verbrauch" an Megabyte pro Nutzung nicht immer nachzuvollziehen ist.
- Rated 5 out of 5by szansz, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nigel Robertson, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Babil, a month agoThe extension isn't working for me. For the past year, I haven't been able to log in using it. The desktop app works, but the extension doesn't.
At the time of writing I tried to log in again and it said "rate limited". Funny thing is I can log out log in 100 times using the android or desktop app and that will work. But no.. not this extension, not even once. - Rated 5 out of 5by Bardi, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16968744, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tronx, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Дмитрий, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by ZettaPT, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aurora, 2 months agoI like Windscribe's approach to privacy and their dedication to it, don't get me wrong. But... boy is their connection super slow. It was a pain to browse even simple news websites containing mostly text. Then there's the fact that the addon says upon initialization that it uses Ublock which I already have, and that using both simultaneously is not recommended. On disabling Ublock origin, I got ads on YouTube. I couldn't find the setting that allowed me to use my old ad blocker instead of Windscribe's built in one that only seems to work with the VPN on.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12376444, 2 months agoРасширение перестало работать пару лет назад - до сих пор так и не работает. Конкурентный VPN работает через расширение firefox, а Windscribe не работает.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kasander, 2 months agoGreat addon. Really. Works perfectly on Firefox and on Chrome.
Would be better if there was more than 10gb on the free tier, but nonetheless, this addon has a lot of extra options for tightening privacy and also there are free servers in many countries!
* for getting 10gb for free (every month) — you need to register an account and confirm your email on windscribe website. - Rated 1 out of 5by rdaraujo, 2 months agoIt's impossible to login:
"Something went wrong with your request. Please try again later."
Debug log says:
"errorDescription":"JSON.parse: expected double-quoted property name at line 5 column 1 of the JSON data"
Tried in 2 different PCs, with 2 different Firefox profiles. - Rated 1 out of 5by 12, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Xen, 2 months ago