Reviews for Windscribe - Free VPN and Ad Blocker
Windscribe - Free VPN and Ad Blocker by Windscribe
Review by Sunfur
Rated 2 out of 5
by Sunfur, 5 months agoFirst of all, the VPN works fine. You need to make an account, and you only get 10GB for free, but I can get over that since it's still a pretty good deal.
BUT. This extension messes with you configs without ever warning you about it or giving you the choice to disable it. It will automatically disable all prefetching and Firefox network prediction, even if the VPN is toggles of and you disable all privacy options in the extension settings. I believe that an extension that tramples over my preferences without even mentioning it ANYWHERE or giving me the option to disable this behavior is not worth it if you truly want to be able to have control over your own browser.
Obviously this doesn't affect you if you have prefetching disabled anyway, but anyone should realize that any form of unintended behavior is pretty bad.
BUT. This extension messes with you configs without ever warning you about it or giving you the choice to disable it. It will automatically disable all prefetching and Firefox network prediction, even if the VPN is toggles of and you disable all privacy options in the extension settings. I believe that an extension that tramples over my preferences without even mentioning it ANYWHERE or giving me the option to disable this behavior is not worth it if you truly want to be able to have control over your own browser.
Obviously this doesn't affect you if you have prefetching disabled anyway, but anyone should realize that any form of unintended behavior is pretty bad.
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- Rated 4 out of 5by mohammad, a month agoit work perfectly if we buAnd it is really unique. The most important thing for me is the speed, which is great, and the other best part is the Build A Plan section, which is unique, and I renew my account every month through this. But the only problem is that it does not work with the free account. I wish the free account worked slower, which is why I am giving it one star less.y an account
- Rated 1 out of 5by M___, a month agoBound my browser to a proxy even while off creating me some problems
- Rated 1 out of 5by Laconia, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 6968530, a month agoUsed to work until they added the captcha now I just get invalid captcha
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19739358, a month agoNo issues ever, used it for more than 10 years.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19739029, a month ago
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- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13834760, 2 months agoПлагин практически никогда не коннектится, хотя приложение на этом же ПК в этот же момент нормально работает.
- Rated 5 out of 5by ostinado, 2 months ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by sevendust, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19487299, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by brzc, 3 months agoI have been a user for the past 5 years and tried many other VPN's and came back to Windscribe. It is simple to use, if you need help their GARRY automated assistant will help you whenever. It has great settings to keep you private, anonymous blocks malware and very easy to use. If you use the Client and the Extension you become invisible on the World Wide WEB. Great price too only 69$ per year. Once configured it blocks all the nasty things out there. Having worked in IT for over 30 years it is Simply the Best in VPN Clients! The others are lightweight at best.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Seren666, 3 months agoIf you happen to accidentally log out, the extension permanently breaks and you are unable to log in again because it no longer loads to that stage. Obviously re-installing fixes it but you can't log in with email so if you forget your username you can't log in. I've done a reset password (I'm not even sure if that will give me my username and I already know my password...) but I haven't received a reset email in at least 30mins...
When I was logged in, the app would often show me as connected but not show an IP so I'm not sure if the VPN is even active... - Rated 1 out of 5by Igor, 3 months agoГовнище!!! Не работает - просит регистрации - в очко этих петухов обоссаных!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Fer, 3 months ago