Announcements Hello World v2 Here at Windscribe, we enjoy writing. Most of the writing that we do is code, however we do dabble in plain old English. Our old blog was hosted at Medium,
Opinions Consolidation of the VPN industry spells trouble for the consumer Most of you have probably been living your lives to the fullest, happily unaware of the dramas unfolding in the VPN industry. Well, that’s…
Announcements Ukrainian server seizure — a commentary and state of the industry This article is a follow up to the OpenVPN CA sunset article, which outlined a double server seizure incident that occurred in Ukraine…
Announcements OpenVPN Security Improvements and Changes UPDATE — July 20th, 2021We’ve completed phase 2 of the OpenVPN CA sunset process mentioned below. If you have trouble connecting and use the OpenVPN protocol, simply restart the app
Announcements Desktop App 2.0 It’s been eons since we released an update for our Windows and Mac applications. This was not out of laziness, we were actually working on…
Announcements We’re not paying for #1 VPN usage has been rising steadily over the last decade, and there are no signs of it slowing down. The industry continues to grow rapidly…
Announcements Introducing WireGuard Here at Windscribe, we’re always thinking about the next big thing and what the future holds. How will AI shape the fabric of human…
Announcements New Browser Extensions — v3 A lot of people mentioned that we haven’t updated our browser extension in ages, and it’s true we haven’t. Instead, we’ve spent our time…
Technical Shattering the Grand Illusion of Cookie Flavored Lies I had written an article some time ago on the hypocrisy of the VPN industry as a part of our market research efforts when building…
Guides and Tutorials Windscribe as a development tool — spoofing and debugging Remember R.O.B.E.R.T.? It’s the tool we created to help you block undesirable domains at the DNS level (or whitelist blocked domains that appear in
Technical VPN Speeds Explained VPNs are great for so many reasons: they allow you to remain more anonymous, minimize tracking, unlock geo-restricted content, and even…
Technical Windscribe Logging Explained (in detail) Many VPN services claim to “keep no logs”, but what does that actually mean? In many cases it means absolutely nothing since it’s a…
Garry's Muse Best VPN for Your Cat 2019 Internet if full of murderers who will literally kill your cat given the chance. Sure, you can 3D print armor for them, or send them to…
Announcements How R.O.B.E.R.T. works Although we say that “Magic and unicorns are at the heart of R.O.B.E.R.T.”, that’s technically not true. In reality there are no unicorns…
Announcements R.O.B.E.R.T, now with Superpowers In case you forgot, R.O.B.E.R.T. blocks various malware, ad and tracking domains at the DNS level, on our servers. This has the advantage…
Announcements May the ScribeForce be with you We’re starting off the new year with another new feature which some of you may find very useful — team accounts. Naturally we couldn’t…
Technical Port Forwarding, Static IPs and Lies Port Forwarding has been one of the most requested features, and we’re happy to say that we finally released it. Let’s discuss this…
Announcements Meet R.O.B.E.R.T — Malware and Ad Blocker We’re happy to announce the launch of R.O.B.E.R.T, which obviously stands for Remote Omnidirectional Badware Eliminating Robotic Tool. Duh…
Opinions Don’t drink Hotspot Shield’s Kool-Aid Free VPN services have a bad reputation, and in most cases it’s undeserved. That being said, there are always bad apples that ruin it for…
Opinions Free VPN Myths Debunked Have you heard the saying “If it’s free, then you are the product”? You must have, since this is constantly repeated by uninformed…
Announcements Windscribe Linux 1.2 — Changelog New version of Windscribe for Linux is out! This is mostly a maintenance/bug fix release.
Technical Verifying session tokens without storing them Most computer systems that are designed to work with multiple users usually make use of session tokens. What this essentially means is that…
