Reviews for Windscribe - Free VPN and Ad Blocker
Windscribe - Free VPN and Ad Blocker by Windscribe
Review by Firefox user 14509158
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 14509158, 8 years agoThe best thing is the generous free monthly 10 GB traffic allowance which you get by signing up with your email.
I installed WS desktop+Firefox addon on two notebooks. On the rather new HP250G5 with Win10x64 Home the install went without a problem. On the old HP 6715s with Win7Ultimatex64SP1 it took some fiddling to get the desktop program connecting with a WS server. As this depends on many factors like the load on the servers, your connection and your setup I don't blame the good people of WS.
Next I tested WS for DNS leak and WebRTC leak on TorGuard, tenta.com and privacy.net. While these sites didn't detect a DNS leak my local IP was leaked by WebRTC. I recommend using WebRTC Leak Shield addon for Firefox.
I used Tixati torrent client with WS and had good download speeds. How good WS is in unblocking streaming services I can't say.
With their build a plan offer you pay $1 for one location per month and get a modicum of privacy with unlimited traffic.
Techradar ranks WS 7th out of the 10 best VPN services of 2019.
I installed WS desktop+Firefox addon on two notebooks. On the rather new HP250G5 with Win10x64 Home the install went without a problem. On the old HP 6715s with Win7Ultimatex64SP1 it took some fiddling to get the desktop program connecting with a WS server. As this depends on many factors like the load on the servers, your connection and your setup I don't blame the good people of WS.
Next I tested WS for DNS leak and WebRTC leak on TorGuard, tenta.com and privacy.net. While these sites didn't detect a DNS leak my local IP was leaked by WebRTC. I recommend using WebRTC Leak Shield addon for Firefox.
I used Tixati torrent client with WS and had good download speeds. How good WS is in unblocking streaming services I can't say.
With their build a plan offer you pay $1 for one location per month and get a modicum of privacy with unlimited traffic.
Techradar ranks WS 7th out of the 10 best VPN services of 2019.
4,077 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18042687, 6 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by leonone69, 7 days agoThis plugin behaves in a very unscrupulous manner: its default behavior is to connect automatically, and if the connection fails, it cuts off your internet access entirely. Furthermore, as long as the plugin is active—regardless of whether you are actually connected to the VPN—it enforces an "ad-blocking" function without providing any notification; it silently blocks certain connections, wasting your time as you try to troubleshoot the issue.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Lilith, 13 days agoIt was working till yesterday, now the extension is impossibly unstable and keeps asking for a proxy login; I tried to login in using my windscribe account but it didn't work.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Velle, 14 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by pulsar14, 17 days agono way to pass over the "Performing security verification" cross site cookie. And I'm a human being
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20000649, 19 days agoI installed this VPN and connected to the American server 2 days ago. Immediately after logging in, my Instagram and Facebook accounts were compromised and automated crypto scam photos started being sent to my friends. Oddly enough, no foreign devices appear in account security; In other words, session cookies were leaked directly. This is the first time in my life that I experience such a security vulnerability. I assume not extension but their servers compermised. The only new variable on my system was this application. Definitely not safe, stay away!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16690706, 22 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14839992, 22 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19989262, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19982171, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Zip, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18040613, a month agoAs soon as I installed it, it said I got no free data left. Thanks for wasting my time.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17416737, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Gabs Art, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Mad4400, 2 months agoNo more Nanny State!
I've regained access to all the sites I once used prior to the new "age restrictions" the Government decided was needed to keep the children safe. I've been a user of Windscribe for years and now can add this to my machines that don't require all the features of the full application. - Rated 5 out of 5by ProActress20, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Liam, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by kid, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mike, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by El Negro, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by freir, 3 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19885174, 3 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Woffin, 3 months agoIt's ok. A lot of the IPs are various degrees of blacklisted/cause issues despite having a paid subscription, but at least they're stable with little downtime in the soon to be year I've used it. The biggest issue is that the company is trying to be cute about everything, with inane shit that pops up left and right. I need these people to understand that while it's their workplace and means a lot to them, it's a freaking VPN to the rest of us and we really just need it to do its thing and shut up about it. Mullvad does that a lot better, so we'll see how much I value browser-only VPN when my sub is up.
- Rated 5 out of 5by GravityPopsicle, 3 months ago