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 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…
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…
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…
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…
Technical How much power do mobile apps actually waste? There are over 2 billion smartphones in use worldwide, with an average of over 60 apps installed on each device. When an app is running, it…
Guides and Tutorials How to (actually) be anonymous online We’ve all heard the myth furthered by most VPN companies that all you need to be 100% anonymous online is a VPN. That is simply not true…
