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, 6 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.
4,085 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by elusive_rabbit, 3 days agoLove this company. Great applications. Reliable connections.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Shreeram, 10 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Olli Copperwolf, 14 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19744296, 16 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, 18 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