Reviews for Windscribe - Free VPN and Ad Blocker
Windscribe - Free VPN and Ad Blocker by Windscribe
Review by Firefox user 14039453
Rated 4 out of 5
by Firefox user 14039453, 8 years agoThis is a great VPN service with affordable prices that is very handy: it's nice to have an ability to see how website looks like in another country or to access something that has been blocked by provider (e.g. Telegram). Being sure that you are harder for companies to track is good too.
Looooove Windflix feature, wish it supported more countries.
There are minor shortcomings though: nonalphabetic sorting of servers and no search field; some websites don't work unless you try several servers (for some reason, Royal Society of Chemistry is often unavailable, IDK why). There's also small chance that if the browser starts to open tabs before launching Windscribe addon, the addresses of webpages will be gone (Firefox loads about:blank instead).
Overall, really like it.
Looooove Windflix feature, wish it supported more countries.
There are minor shortcomings though: nonalphabetic sorting of servers and no search field; some websites don't work unless you try several servers (for some reason, Royal Society of Chemistry is often unavailable, IDK why). There's also small chance that if the browser starts to open tabs before launching Windscribe addon, the addresses of webpages will be gone (Firefox loads about:blank instead).
Overall, really like it.
4,085 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by elusive_rabbit, 4 days agoLove this company. Great applications. Reliable connections.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Shreeram, 10 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Olli Copperwolf, 15 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19744296, 17 days agoWhat Windscribe does not advertise is the fact that confirming your email address gets you the free 10GB of data a month, but you're also opted-in automatically to receiving their marketing emails and you're not allowed to unsubscribe without losing out on the 10GB.
The website, and also the info provided here, does state that providing your email for confirmation/verification is required for the 10GB. They do also state that marketing emails will be sent. My issue is that they obfuscate the fact that access to the 10GB is ACTUALLY tied to receiving marketing spam, instead of being tied simply to email verification.
There is no customer support email on their website, and no user feedback forms or anything, so the AI chatbot told me to submit my complaint about this to the feedback channel on the Windscribe Discord.
There is no feedback channel on the Windscribe server. Lol. If you have an actual issue or complaint, your only option is to send a message to #General, where it'll get drowned out by other conversations and/or dogpiled by users who disagree. I was "lucky" and got a response back from an actual Windscribe employee, who generously told me, "You can opt out of email marketing by subscribing to Pro," and then just sent a gif that said DEAL WITH IT, which, yikes.
Basically the actual terms of use are deceptive and the business clearly has very little respect for users. If you have a complaint, either pay them money to get around the issue, or go screw yourself. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16620618, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18008878, 19 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20063895, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by PAP, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Banryuus, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rockedf, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14356857, a month agoto leonone69: u can turn off automatic connection, u can turn off the ad-blocking. check the settings
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18042687, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by leonone69, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by pulsar14, 2 months agono way to pass over the "Performing security verification" cross site cookie. And I'm a human being
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16690706, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14839992, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19989262, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19982171, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Zip, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18040613, 3 months 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, 3 months ago