Reviews for Windscribe - Free VPN and Ad Blocker
Windscribe - Free VPN and Ad Blocker by Windscribe
54 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by Bội Lê, 4 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12480023, 4 years agoAddon faulty on multiple occasions. - It will turn itself on and off every 1 second until disabled through firefox settings.
While it is acting in this way, it is impossible to load a page or use the on/off button due to the connection state changing faster than a human can press the off button.
Windscribe as a vpn is fine but the firefox addon is not recommended. - Rated 2 out of 5by Cr4yfish, 4 years agoSo many bugs... It almost never works correctly and if, it just stops after like a day or so.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15974268, 4 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by robin, 4 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15556519, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15133630, 5 years agoI have not been using Windscribe 24/7; only at select times. But apparently at some point its configuration set itself to run when the browser starts, and ran itself out of data. Curiously, it also thought that this was October (it's actually the middle of December).
Lastly, the nagging to upgrade is ubiquitous and annoying enough to cause me to seriously contemplate uninstalling the app permanently. It promises anonymity and warns about invasive ads - then floods you with its own. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14038354, 5 years agoWhen I'm trying to download smth from cloud.mail.ru mostly the download fails.
- Rated 2 out of 5by 브라운, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15076355, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15056629, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14797090, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14791337, 5 years agoIt works and there are no real issues with it. The data cap on free users is very low at 2gb, i went through that in about an hour or two. They do not let you signup your email if its considered (by them) to be a disposable email, i used a mail.com email and it was rejected. this pretty much annoyed me because it is by no means a "disposable email". While it functioned it is pretty much useless as a free application.
- Rated 2 out of 5by hamed, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by bennybaconburger, 5 years agoThis extension is fine. It does a bunch of stuff. I love Windscribe and think it's a great option for a light-use VPN.
That being said, it is just better to get the desktop version of the app instead. The only way I would justify choosing the extension over the desktop app would be if you were using a portable version of Firefox. Otherwise, get their desktop application.
Secondly, I was having an issue where Firefox was starting up and then not loading my home page (www.google.com). At first I blamed it on uBlock, but then I did some debugging and found that this extension blocks the first page from loading when Firefox starts. My guess is it has something to do with either the extension refusing to initially load the page, or if Firefox doesn't want to load a page on startup until all extensions are loaded. Either way, I'd rather remove the extension than use a different browser. :(
Edit: After reading further reviews, it has been made clear by Windscribe that they have only put priority on the Chrome extension and have not been updating this problem despite its being reported on their subreddit.
Edit 7/7/19: While I'm not acquainted with the add-ons rollout system, I feel that three months does not qualify as soon. I really do want the extension to be updated; it hasn't yet!
Edit 8/26/19: Now that I'm reading the developer response again, going into excess of 4 months does not qualify as 'very soon' in my opinion.Developer response
posted 5 years agoThe extension is being updated to a 3.0 version very soon, which will resolve most issues with the current one. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14741110, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14725621, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14707494, 6 years agoCut the bloatware. Why bundle a worse, closed-source, less customizable version of u-block origin when it can be installed separately?
Developer response
posted 6 years agoYou're comparing apples and oranges, and even then, you're still wrong.
1. It's not closed source: https://github.com/Windscribe/browser-extensions-legacy
2. Does uBlock have access to proxies in 60 countries? No.
3. Does uBlock spoof proxy time or keep track of 3rd and first party cookies? No. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14706594, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12640372, 6 years agoWorks fine on Chrome but terrible on Firefox. Painfully slow in comparison to Chrome version and breaks internet connection.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Mike Vaghur, 6 years agoToo slow for a VPN - often even unable to open web page, moreover to watch streeming videos. Very small limit of data. Browsec is more faster and have no traffic limit.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14507826, 6 years agoPoor performance and doesn't work with a number of web sites.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14255783, 6 years agoFirefox Version 61.0.1 for ubuntu 18.04
Cannot login, as widget closes when moving from login to password field.
The same issus as with NordVpn - Rated 2 out of 5by WONDERFUL WORLD, 6 years ago