Reviews for Windscribe - Free VPN and Ad Blocker
Windscribe - Free VPN and Ad Blocker by Windscribe
Review by USER-EXPERIENCEONLY
Rated 1 out of 5
by USER-EXPERIENCEONLY, 5 years agoJuly, 2022. Another dishonest lame "free" vpn. Forgets your login data and then puts you into an endless timeout trying to login. Then if you post a negative review which they richly deserve they will block your access to creating a new account after they lost your old data. Bunch of wankers who cannot program their way out of a paper bag and using the same GUI, which is crappy, slow and unresponsive since their inception probably because they cannot program a new GUI. From memory their speed was always slow and made even slower by the long time it takes them to log you in. THen you must give them youR ACTUAL email address defeating any chance you might have had for privacy. Just another worthess "free" vpn and you get what you pay for. Very small selection of "free proxies" and you have to hunt for them because their gui is so crappy and unresponsive. There is ONLY ONE good vpn free and I aint telling here which one it is. Good luck cuz they all suck save that one and even that one you have to pay if you want very many countries. NONE of them have residential ips so most sites will block you once they see your using a proxy. I guess you have to pay through the nose to get back to the way the net used to be 30 years ago from it's sad state today. An FFox admins you don't have to keep reminding me that I have to download ffox to use it's extension,I already know that, but my reviews are intended to benefit mozille,not evil google
FEB 15, 2021-cannot find our asses with both hands in the dark and a flashlight=cannot find tab. Bullshit time wasting another lame "Free vpn" all these crap vpn extensions, they must recruit from the local homeless shelters.
feb 7, 2021: This company does not listen to reviews or try to fix what's wrong with their add-on. Still the same terrible GUI, hard to navigate, hard to find free proxies, unstable connections. Really don't know why it is rated highly. I am using a competitor free proxy now haven't used windscribe in quite a while but keeping it as backup.
jan 24, 2021: stopped using it. there are NO GOOD FREE VPNS. I've tested them ALL and they ALL suck. This one GUI is very hard to use, slow hard to navigate, free servers difficult to locate. Another lame VPN what else is new.
too much trouble to use it. Hard to connect. User GUI is difficult to use-slow,non-responsive, hard to select. Often have trouble connecting. Lacking sufficient free proxies-hard to use it for free. Found a better vpn free that does not have these problems.
FEB 15, 2021-cannot find our asses with both hands in the dark and a flashlight=cannot find tab. Bullshit time wasting another lame "Free vpn" all these crap vpn extensions, they must recruit from the local homeless shelters.
feb 7, 2021: This company does not listen to reviews or try to fix what's wrong with their add-on. Still the same terrible GUI, hard to navigate, hard to find free proxies, unstable connections. Really don't know why it is rated highly. I am using a competitor free proxy now haven't used windscribe in quite a while but keeping it as backup.
jan 24, 2021: stopped using it. there are NO GOOD FREE VPNS. I've tested them ALL and they ALL suck. This one GUI is very hard to use, slow hard to navigate, free servers difficult to locate. Another lame VPN what else is new.
too much trouble to use it. Hard to connect. User GUI is difficult to use-slow,non-responsive, hard to select. Often have trouble connecting. Lacking sufficient free proxies-hard to use it for free. Found a better vpn free that does not have these problems.
3,997 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nigel Robertson, a day ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Babil, 5 days 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, 7 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16968744, 10 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tronx, 11 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Дмитрий, 14 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by ZettaPT, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aurora, a month 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, a month 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, a month 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, a month 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, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Xen, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18469293, 2 months agoEvery time I restart the browser I get reconnected, even though I disable it each time.
- Rated 1 out of 5by AnonFF User, 2 months agoAccount registration required
2GB Capped Data Limit
Browser Permissons REQUIRED:
Read and modify browser settings
Monitor extension usage and manage themes
Display notifications to you
Read and modify privacy settings
Control browser proxy settings
Access browser tabs
Access browser activity during navigation
Access your data for all websites - Rated 4 out of 5by Filter Your Water!, 2 months agoApproved. I haven't looked very deep into the owners/developers tho.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18251476, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19221398, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Megan Berry, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13285367, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tichmazg, 3 months ago