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This wouldn't have happened if Windscribe supported 2FA. I hope Windscribe support at least responds to the idea of supporting 2FA this time!

I posted about this happening 20 days ago with no reply from WindScribe -

LastPass, manages passwords for multiple websites, compatible with multiple browsers.

AdBlock Plus, blocks ads.

WindScribe VPN, allows you to connect to specific sites via certian locations to get around region blocking. Also a PC client.

Check out WindScribe and ProtonVPN, they shouldn't save logs

EDIT: These are just 2 VPNs I use spontaneously. Can't complain tho, it gets the job done for me. Both also offer a free plan, so you can test them by yourself

"built in vpn for opera" yes it like using vpn inside a browser with an extension, not system wide.

you need a proper VPN to be installed on your PC.

There is only free p2p friendly VPN which is WindScribe but you only get 10GB of monthly data. Other than that you need to buy one.

Do not use a free VPN.

I looked at WindScribe's website and they are trying to conceal their identity. Ask yourself why would they do that.

There are many legitimate, low cost VPNs you can choose from.

I run my own VPN for my family and friends. It's cheap and I can be sure nothing is logged.

This is the software I use:

Voting for evictions costs actual money (yes, seriously) so that's not really possible.

Online voting is possible with a UK VPN to make it look like you're located in the UK - WindScribe has a free version with 50 GB of usage.

Problems following the update, just sit tight, or if you want to play now, here's a work around.

1. Go to google and download WindScribe. Get the one for your computer or OS.
2. Download and run it
3. It will port you to the website again to make an account. This takes almost no time
4. Now that you are signed in and running, choose a westcoast server (if in USA) specifically Los Angeles Dogg
5. Run the game and you will be in. Then turn the vpn off. You will be good to go. This literally takes 5 minutes.

I don't think that is a waste. I've tried both ProtonVPN and bought WindScribe. I think so many mega users are using these services that switching VPN endpoints doesn't always help as someone else has already leached a bunch.

Also, I think the megalinks PC client with start a download OVER if you switch IPs on it instead of completing the current download.

I've been sharing an account with someone in Japan while I've been here in the US, with me using a VPN to watch both Japanese and British Netflix, for the past 3-4 years. I can't promise you won't have issues, obviously, but I can tell you that I haven't had any.

I can't speak for the free service, since it didn't do what I needed when I first signed up, but I've been using WindScribe pro for years with no major problems, other than Netflix blocking it for brief periods. I am on a lifetime pro account, so I also can't really speak to the value for the money — I haven't paid in years.

>I'm really longing to have a lifetime subscription but it's so expensive in Iran where we need a nice VPN like Windscribe the most. It's really the best among other. I install it's free version on all me relatives' phones. Hope to be the winner this month :D

You gave a referral link to StackSocial, right after complaining that WindScribe lifetime subscriptions cost too much (less than $60).

You are quite obviously trying to get enough referrals to cover a purchase of the lifetime VPN service. I suspect it's the only reason you created this account.

A technical person would in your case install a firewall with pfsense on it, and a kind of "intelligent" firewall (snort or surricata) - and tell this software to block p2p as best it can. This is not trivial as mentioned, but may force your users to hide your IP with a free VPN service, f.i WindScribe

You could also just use a VPN. I personally use WindScribe, and if you're willing to watch in 1080p, a free account should give you enough bandwidth, I think. I'm pretty sure Netflix has the rights in just about every country except the US.

WindScribella on US/UK/Japani -sisältöalueille servut jotka on tarkoitettu nimenomaan NetFlixiä varten ("WindFlix" -palvelimet). Ilmaisversiolla saa 10 Gt/kk mikä riittänee lauantai-iltojen leffoihin. Kannattaa ainakin kokeilla sillä ensin. Monella VPN:llä on kampanjakoodeja joita kannattaa etsiä esim. tietotekniikkasivustoilta, jos haluaa ostaa täysimittaisen version.

WindScribe on muiltakin ominaisuuksiltaan kelvollinen. Yksityisyys, nopeus ja palvelimien määrä ainakin Euroopan alueella on hyvä. Lisäksi sillä pystyy poistamaan mainoksia ilman laitteessa olevaa mainostenestoa, mikä on näppärää esim. puhelinta/taulutietokonetta ajatellen.

You you can. VPN and only for starting up Spotify. After that VPN can be closed and Spotify works great without it until you close app. I use Windscribe just to start Spotify.

Po naški: može se koristiti uz VPN, a on treba samo da počne rad aplikacije i početak pjesme. Nakon što krene pjesma gasim VPN (WindScribe) i dalje radi Spotify bez VPN dok ga ne ugasim nakon par sati slušanja.

Be wary of those free VPNs. The way those work is that you get access to the IP addresses of the other users using that VPN and they get access to your IP address. Some not so nice people could be on your IP address doing something worse than streaming a motorsport event.

This isn't the case on paid for VPN services. I personally use WindScribe because they had a lifetime membership a year or two back for around $50 I believe.

Are you using BlueStacks to play? You should try WindScribe vpn and set to USA. I don't know if your account was associated with your country. That may be a whole other issue. You may have to start over if this is the case. Or, try emailing their support and let them know you don't live in belgium anymore lol... whatever works, right? just keep that VPN set outside your country if you take that route!

I think it is worth considering，But the ShadowsocksR's author Breakwa11 has given up on Shadowsocks's author Clowwindy is threatened by the Chinese government and also give up the I think WindScribe's team is unlikely to invest in technology that no one maintains

I keep getting this error. Remote Access error 703 - The connection needs information from you, but the application does not allow user interaction.

Any way to resolve that?

Edit - Redid GUI Settings on WindScribe and got it working. Followed the directions on their website.

Finally my website can now open in those 2 particular WindScribe servers as well after 48 hours of changing DNS in cloudflare. so I guess their DNS refresh interval is 48 hours and imo that's really long time at least for a famous VPN like WindScribe. I could understand if a free VPN does that but why a premium VPN must have a 48 hours internal DNS cache? I don't know.

Of course that's not a problem for most users that only using famous websites like Reddit and Instagram but it's a huge problem for web developers that need to use a VPN for some reason.

In my opinion, just get a VPN. Some such as WindScribe are barely €2 a month, which is a price I’d gladly pay just to keep a peace of mind.

Yes, the chance you’re actually getting caught and fined is not far off from winning the lottery yet people buy their Lotto ticketje anyway.

For occasional use like that you can use a free VPN like WindScribe, or indeed the one built in to Opera.

A VPN will severely slow down your internet, (as it routes all your traffic through the other side of the world) so it's really not something you are going to want on all the time anyway.

İlk olarak sadece DNS değiştirmeyi dene. Quad9 favorimdir. O olmazsa WindScribe kullanabilirsin. Aylık bir limiti var ama 2-3 dolara aylık sınırsız satın alabilirsin. Yok illa çok güvenli olacak falan filan dersen kendine bir VPS sunucu kiralayıp kendi VPN'ni yapabilirsin. Zor gibi gelebilir böyle söyleyince de en fazla 1 saatlik iş. OpenVPN ile yapabilirsin.

He's right. If this still doesn't work I've found Wireguard often prevents port forwarding whereas a protocol like IKEv2 completes the process. Try changing your encryption protocol in WindScribe app settings.

Not really. Say you own WindScribe and have 10000 lifetime customers that are perfectly satisfied with the VPN service and have no immediate need for this SmartDNS service.

Would you rather get 1000-2000 of them to subscribe at 50% off or maybe get a low number like 100 to subscribe at full price?

You can choose to believe whatever you want but ControID is a niche product if one already has a VPN.

Same here, I was mainly doing it to support them because I like their emails. I'm not gonna replace WindScribe on my PC or laptop with this for sure but thought that I'd try out something new on mobile.

I'm not one to judge but those are effing weird resolutions.

For free VPNs WindScribe is pretty good and cheap, but everyone else I know used Nord.

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> Well all I know is that the extension blocks ads on the surface level, and the app blocks them on the DNS level

I can believe that, but I think then my question about ads leaking through suddenly today still stands

> Also it’s Windscribe, not WindScribe.

sigh, you're right, JavaScript still confuses the fuck out of me and I develop in it daily

The problem with AdGuard DNS is a lot of times it will block legitimate stuff I'm trying to look at, like stuff on Amazon. If you haven't, check out a really cool DNS server called . They block tons of stuff and over DNS over TLS and all sorts of great features. The only problem is it seems to interfere with WindScribe.

Like the article filex posted. It’s interesting that they encourage dedicated IPs (the VPNs they like) but discourage static IPs (Windscribes) when you have a dedicated IP there has to be some sort of link from that dedicated IP to the users account, which means if they get any sort of law enforcement request for example “who used this IP to go to this site” then the VPN provider has all the information and will most likely have to give it up. If it’s a static IP that’s shared amongst let’s say 5 people, then there is no straight link, if they request “who used this IP to go to this site” WindScribe can say they don’t know.

This (plus the fact they are giving a 70% off Nord which implies they have a deal with them and knowing that Nord pays for reviews) makes me completely discredit this whole article.

WindScribe is my go-to VPN. 10 free Gigabytes per month, more with a paid membership, and you get +1 free GB/month for every friend that you recommend. It's a crowd-sourced, Canadian company. Plus, the UI is beautifully simple.

No, if anything (which it’s not) it’s less. Well depends on what you are trying to do.

If you want to do everything you can do on a normal connection through VPN then yes it’s required. If you just want to be a normal use then it’s not.

If you are referring to secrecy then technically you are putting yourself in a pool of 3-5 people instead of hundreds (or however many they do) so your data would stand out more. But again, WindScribe doesn’t log your data and therefor can not prove which of the 3-5 on the residential IPs did the bad dead.

If you have T-Mobile (or know someone who does), during preseason they usually give out an subscription as one of their "T-Mobile Tuesdays". I use WindScribe, a free VPN to get around the blockout. Free Pirate games for the year. You can watch on your computer or use something like Chromecast to cast it on your TV

Typora - Writing

VS Code - for code

Firefox - Web Browser

Picasa - photos

WindScribe - VPN

qBittorrent - Torrents

7zip - archive

MusicBee, Spotify, Gaana - music

MPV - Videos

Kindle - ebooks

Calibre - other ebooks

Everything + Wox - search

Raven Reader - RSS reader

MailSpring - emails

LibreOffice - office

f.lux - Night-light

ShareX - screenshot

WinDirStat - dir stats

- paint

PDF-Xchange Editor - PDF

PatchMyPC - app updates

Microsoft To-Do

Telegram, Signal - communication

WinSCP - FTP

BitWarden - password manager

Youtube-dl - Download YT

Android Studio

Visual Studio 2019 community

GitKraken

Just putting it out there, WindScribe has a server set up for US Netflix and one set up for UK Netflix so they might be your best bet. It’s the only one I know with designation for what you’re looking for. I live in neither country and have used both, successfully.

Eta and I think that is how it works. I want US Netflix because the content is better/there’s more of it.

A temporary workaround is to use a VPN. There are a few free VPNs you can use with enough bandwidth to patch the client (e.g. WindScribe), you'll typically need 100MB~500MB per update, so far this week I've downloaded around 700MB in total.

Or patch the launcher during off-peak hours (e.g. in the morning).

You have to pay for WindScribe Pro in order to be able to pick the location "Windflix UK". If you are only using the free WindScribe then you only have a simple "UK" option which doesnt give access to the BBC iPlayer. As it is, even as a paid user and using "Windflix UK", I have issues getting iPlayer content half of the time. I just reconnect until it works.

ExpressVPN works well most of the time. I've been using it for half a year now. It drops sometimes at night. So I also use WindScribe, a free VPN that I've been using also for several months. It is free so far and I registered wtih my email and got 10G for free every month, far than enough for me.

I signed up for PIA before leaving the UK, and testing iPlayer worked fine while still there.
I then moved abroad, and found iPlayer blocked me on my laptop with whatever PIA location I tried. In order to get a working solution I ended up using a different VPN (WindScribe - although there's a free level, you have to pay to use their "Windflix" server range, of which half work with iPlayer). If there's a PIA solution I'm all ears!

Also if you're looking for a good free VPN, we use WindScribe. You get 2 gb free per month, or 10 gb free per month if you confirm your email. One game is normally 1.5gb for us. We connect through Canada and it works great.

This is Geo locked. UK users only unless you have a UK can use the WindScribe VPN for 10gb transfer per month for FREE. Sometimes you can get a 50gb or 60gb per month lifetime code. I've had a 50gb free for a few years now. You can use their client to pick a UK server and your browsing traffic looks like it comes from there.

If you want to use my referral link you'll get an extra 1gb per month on top of the 10gb. No

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WindScribe is free at least can be free for over 2 weeks. I'm still using it on my phone for over 2months now, still free. Register with your email, you get 10G free per month. About Nord, I don't think it works well. I tried the trial plan, not able to connect at all every time.

Not sure about app.

For VPN, try WindScribe, it's free and steady. 10G per month free to use once you register with your email address. I'm in China and using it everyday to refresh my feeds on Ins and FB.

WeChat payment is accepted almost everywhere. But you will have to make sure you have money in it. Chinese people have their bank cards bonded to wechat and that's why they can pay via wechat.

Hope it's helpful.

I'm a UK resident so can't use it at present. However I use a VPN which has a specific IP for US Netflix and it works. The VPN is WindScribe. I don't know if this node would allow the connection to the F1 but I'll give it a go when its accessible.

VPN! That's what finally fixed this for me. I loaded into a few, had this error every time within the first few minutes. I downloaded a VPN someone on the Discord recommended (not at home but I'm pretty sure it's WindScribe?). I've played multiple games with the VPN turned on and not a single 0x30001 error. I'm sure other VPNs would work just as well.

From my experience, the basic answer is: yes, you will be able to connect from within China... technically. If all you need to do is send emails and view mostly text-based websites, WindScribe will do that, no problem. You will be able to get around the Great Firewall using Windscribe on a desktop computer (still no Stealth support on Android, not sure about iPhone).

Longer answer: bandwidth will come through at a trickle, which I suspect is due to WindScribe not having servers that have strong peering with China. I'd love to be proven wrong. Does anyone else living in China have a positive experience to share? Servers to recommend?

Here's a really long answer with more detail:

I'm actually a happy WindScribe customer and get great speeds, even when torrenting.

They have plenty of servers and it's easy to switch. WHat I've found is that if I try to use servers in a timezone where it's late at night/early in the morning (like 3-4am in the server's time zone) then I get great speeds.

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Procure toi un VPN gratuit ou avec un proxy (Comme WindScribe) pour le Canada et va ici: pour le premier épisode et tape "CAPITALISME" dans la barre de recherche de et tu vas voir les 6 épisodes et 2 autres en bonus. ;-)

Yes, mega checks your IP. Using a VPN can solve that. VCDupper posted a video on WindScribe VPN service free account.

I am the same with . I just use a VPN that lets me change my location. SlickDeals had a link to an offer from WindScribe for free with a 5 or 10GB cap for free accounts. Never thought I'd need it until wouldn't let me watch the Cubs. So I just use the Firefox extension for WindScribe and change my location and watch.

As a fan of freemium services, I've been eyeing Windscribe for a while. The difference is that with other freemiums, the collected data is sold to advertisers. Since you aren't collecting data I can't fathom how you are staying afloat. You mentioned that the few paid users are covering the cost of the free users, but between the massive data usage promos and selling lifetime accounts for a flat $80 (promo) I don't see how that's possible to maintain. As you grow in popularity, free users and server costs are going to eventually drown the service right?

RingPlus is a great recent example of Freemium failing, and I'm not trying to be cynical here, but I am legitimately concerned about whether or not you can keep this going in a sustainable fashion. Can you provide any insight as to how financially stable WindScribe is in terms of longevity, or how it can stay operational?

I was on PIA for a year then switched to WindScribe. They are well rated on thatoneprivacyguys site, I paid $40 for a lifetime subscription through a stacksocial promotion, speeds are fantastic, and there are openvpn settings you could use on an androidtv/android box.

can't recommend highly enough!

I'm not sure of "free" versions. There is WindScribe and TunnelBear which offer a free variant of their paid versions. They both have limits on their free versions, WindScribe is 10GB a month and and TunnelBear is 500MB. I don't know how much data LiveStream would consume.

Thanks! I've tried TunnelBear before but the low free quota makes it a bad choice for streaming matches. I can't do the 'disable once stream loaded' trick as livestream will disconnect at random points (even force setting the quality to something other than auto before disabling).

WindScribe looks promising. Will give that a shot. If that fails, I'll just pay for a VPN while in the footy season. Thanks again!

You can, but it’s random and you cannot specify which location. If you turn off “maintain general location” in the iCloud private relay settings it might give you another country’s IP.

iCloud private relay is not a VPN - if you’d like a VPN to get an IP from another country then WindScribe is very generous with free data -

Thanks for the suggestion - I managed to narrow the extensions down to WindScribe VPN that was causing the issue. They had built-in adblockers as well, which I think disabled FIFA's video ads and caused a problem.

The issue is now resolved, thank you!

You need to go check out the “Pro Plan” section a little closer and find the “Build a Plan” option. Just select the one location that is best for your needs and R.O.B.E.R.T. (to play as free mobile games with) and you’ll rack up a LUDICROUS $2/month subscription. WindScribe is the GOAT for that.

Using a VPN to launch/install FiveM, I used WindScribe. In my case I connected to the US, any should work. You will need to use it every time before you launch FiveM, after it opens you can turn it off and wait a few seconds to reconnect before clicking every where. Some servers will ban/kick you for connecting with the use of a VPN so i'd recommend that you do turn it off before connecting to a server itself. The issue is during the original launch of FiveM, other processes like playing and actual use of FiveM after launch is not affected and you can continue without the VPN.

My man I got you.. The problem is that your ISP is blocking most VPNs' handshakes, so what you gotta do is download clowdflare VPN (or any other one that is not blocked) and connect, once connected head to Windscribe app and connect, you will connect successfully, once connected disable cloudflare and close it.

Make sure that "TCP socket termination" is enabled in WindScribe

How technically inclined is your relative?

If they are intentionally asking you to set up a dedicated VPN server, they are likely aware that Iran is actively blocking VPN services. (WindScribe has been blocked in the past and will be blocked again in the future — I believe even now, it's not as simple as clicking "connect" and connecting if they are in Iran.) In this case, they are likely asking you to set up the server in your home because it is unlikely Iran will ever go through the trouble to block their access in that case. (And neither will Netflix!). In that case, Tailscale might be your best bet (I'm not familiar with it, though).

If they are not so technically inclined, they may have just phrased their request poorly, and WindScribe will fit their needs fine, though you may need to come here on their behalf to help them get connected if Reddit is blocked in Iran, which I'd assume it is.

I had installed WindScribe on PC and I can connect to Norway for example but when i connect not from Russia I don't have russian pay methods
This is most my main problem)
Also i don't have any not russian credit cards or online wallets -- I have only QIWI wallet and russian credit card

A Raspberry Pi plugged into Ethernet, with WindScribe running, and sharing the network connection over the WiFi is also a very easy way to go, if you can't set it up in your router. Flipping WiFi and Ethernet roles should be just as easy, but I've never done it.

>or is it actually a bug in Firefox or WindScribe?

because I went and checked, then uninstalled the current version and reinstalled the previous version (nothing changes, connection issues I described above still occurring), uninstalled that version and reinstalled the current/up-to-date version, and again, same issue still occurring.

I don't see how it can be Firefox, at least for me, since my version didn't change from before everything was working correctly (as in, a*s usual*) to when it suddenly didn't (last Tuesday), because: 1) I have auto-updates turned off for just this type of shenanigans; and 2) because I went and checked, then uninstalled current version and reinstalled previous version (nothing changes, connection issues I described above still occurring), uninstalled that version and reinstalled current/up-to-date version, and again, same issue still occuring.

I am getting this issue as well (Windows 11) but only when using the browser extension (Firefox) and the desktop app together (WireGuard 443). Individually they work fine.

Haven't changed any settings recently. Assuming something in Firefox has broken it because they push updates seemingly every couple of days.

Haven't tried the solution above. Don't really know what it does. Is that just a workaround or is it actually a bug in Firefox or WindScribe?

Thanks

Note beforehand: my country blocks piracy sites but doesn't care much about individual pirates.

Turn on VPN in browser (WindScribe) to go to Switzerland. Visit 1337x and search for whatever it is I am looking for. The vast majority of the time, it's there. Click the magnet link. If metadata doesn't download in 10 seconds get the actual torrent file. Load it into Qbittorrent. Turn off the VPN. Segregate OS ISOs (never pirated these), Games, Software, Movies and Shows. The Movies and Shows folders are subfolders of a Media folder that is being scanned by Plex, so that they are instantly available in my media library. The Plex server runs on my laptop, which I boot when I wake up and shut down when I go to sleep.

Right now, I have a weird kind of setup going. It breaks down like this:

• VPS in LA with WireGuard installed to create my own VPN with the IP address assigned to my VPS.
• Each of my 3 main devices have the VPN profiles installed
• On my main web server (I host my own server at home, which stopped working once I switched as we don’t have a public IPV4) I have a WindScribe static IP VPN running with port forwarding enabled, so that my Plex and such is accessible. Then, I SSH port forward all of my server apps to the VPS, where it’s then accessible to the public with reverse proxies.
• The next step for me is buying a VPN router on Amazon, or one that supports OpenWRT so I can install my WireGuard VPN configuration to it and have my entire network running behind the VPN’s IP.

I used VPN too, this VPN would be WindScribe, just yesterday I used it with a location in Hong Kong but the same thing kept happening to me, I want to enter the server but it stays at 90 percent, after a few minutes it takes me back to the start menu inside the game

I just checked on my Windows box. Windows doesn't even see my VPN (WindScribe) and only shows my physical interfaces. I then looked with Wireshark packet capture tool and all of my traffic is under my VPN protocol. I think Windows is only monitoring traffic on physical adapters.

If I navigate to Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections and open the VPN connection and the physical network card, I see both showing traffic. But the only traffic on the system is the VPN and some local network traffic.

See which shows the physical lan (right) has no internet access, but the VPN (left) does have access.

That's what I do with my commercial access to WindScribe VPN - i have few VMs, which keep OpenVPN connections, and my scrappers just roundtrip rotate it. If for some reason this time it fail, it's likely it will download said restricted video next time.

I know that WindScribe uses different IP addresses for streaming sites than the one you connect to on their location node using DNS or something, because i would get a warning from Amazon about a different IP when connecting to it with WindScribe and asked their support and they said it was their IP as i thought someone got access to my Amazon account. I can't remember what ISP it was, but it was one of the major residential ISPs from the US like Verizon or something. The IP wasn't linked to a data center like most VPN nodes are.

I finally found it. It's appears that somehow there's a proxy settings in my APN. Now that I removed everything from my APN settings and set it again, it can connect without WindScribe too. I don't know how my APN Proxy settings changed but thanks for your help.

My DNS is on auto mode and APN settings appears to be correct based on my carrier info.

But I guess WindScribe somehow force proxy in my device because Chrome shows ERR_PROXY_CONNECTION_FAILED whenever I wanted to open a website without WindScribe.

I don't know how completely disable WindScribe proxy without removing its app. because I want to use it but not all the time.

Yeah. I just tried again using a WindScribe connection and couldn't reproduce from a few tries.

Earlier, I was using a connection from another VPN service (server uk2430). I tried it again now and could reproduce once, but couldn't with further tries. So it could be a coincidence.

Brave was using another server from that other VPN service.

So I guess the bottom line is, most people will probably never see this issue. But if anyone runs into it, using different browsers (or browser profiles) and/or connections would probably help.

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Free TunnelBear VPN has lots of free regions like Japan, Korea, Australia, Europe etc. Just need VPN to open the app. Kill VPN while/after starting game.

Free ProtonVPN has Japan.

Free WindScribe has 10 regions including Europe. Latency will be higher for Europe.

Windscribe has returned back to me and helped me to reset my password. The customer support rep was amazing and yes I have restored confidence in Windscribe from now on. They have made sure that I remain a customer of theirs forever, and they are the only VPN provider that I will recommend, bar non.

I hope you get your issue resolved too.

WindScribe is AWESOME ! They may not have a 24/7 call centre, and bots can only do so much, however the support level Windscribe does have during regular business hours is the best I've experienced.

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If a hacker got your credentials and was using your WindScribe account, that wouldn't be enough for them to be using your IP address, unless you mean the IP address seen when using the VPN, which thousands of WindScribe users are using without needing to hack your anything.

I did get it to work but eventually switched off of deluge for binhex's qbittorentvpn because deluge started acting weird for me. IIRC, the setup was pretty much the same. For the settings, I'm using:

I used the credentials found on the WindScribe OpenVPN Config page

Hopefully, these are similar among the various containers as DanTheMan74 mentioned.

Once the container was up and running, I logged in to the console and ran the following command to verify that the public IP in the container was different than my actual public IP:

dig +short

This says to me that the OpenVPN credentials are working correctly.

This is incorrect, as I've directly explained in my post. It doesn't hide your IP from websites you visit that are within the CF network. Turn it on and try it yourself. Find my IP websites in the CF network will get your IP, and others will not. When torrenting, your IP is not visible.

> What if it does

What if any VPN that collects logs decides to suddenly cave to common DMCA notices? You want me to prove a negative? It would be big news, just like TorGuard. Users wouldn't be the first to find out with a letter in the mail.

Other free VPNs collect logs, just like WARP, and yet you still see people talk about WindScribe on here.

I might be late to the party, but it is quite easy to play it in NL:

I used free WindScribe for this.

1: Turn on windscribe (I set it to Germany) 2: Open Steam (you probably have to login again) 3: Put something in your basket that is not free 4: A “Country” or “select country” dropdown will show up above the list of items in your basket 5: Click on it and select Germany (if you chose that in WindScribe) 6: Steam will ask you if your billing address is in Germany - click yes 7: Remove the item from your basket 8: You can now search for lost ark in Steam and add it to your library 9: Turn off VPN and install the game! 10: You can play without VPN now!

Glhf!

Ah, thanks for replying to this, I got it fixed but I must've forgotten to update this.

Basically the VPN I was using wasn't working properly. I used WindScribe but apparently WindScribe sucks volleyballs.

After using the free trial for Cyberghost it worked. Both regions should work. ^^

Nimm am besten WindScribe wie vorgeschlagen. Das kostet nachher nur etwa 1,70€ im Monat, wenn's hilft. Oder irgendeines, ich will keine Werbung machen.

• Geh auf und schau dir das Ergebnis an.
• Schalte den VPN ein. Verbinde dich nach London, Paris, Zürich oder so. Also Ausland, aber nicht am anderen Ende der Welt.
• Öffne einen weiteren Tab, geh auch dort auf
• Das angezeigte Ergebnis muss sich klar vom vorherigen Ergebnis unterscheiden, sonst ist dein VPN nicht aktiv - dann schalte es richtig ein!
• Zocke und schau, ob das Problem weg ist
• Wenn das Problem weiterhin da ist, probier ein anderes Land aus, oder gleich ein anderes VPN

As mentioned in another post, Mullvad is a great option. It is however not the cheapest. Short of choosing a free one (I wouldn't), there's also WindScribe, which has an option to choose exactly what you want, $1 per item.

Choose unlimited data and one country, say Switzerland or Sweden, and you'll have the free countries on top for a total of $2 per month.

I'm not saying this is the greatest deal or even a good VPN, there's a lot of shilling around, just check out some options. Just posting this to say there are some affordable options. You don't have to shell out for 3 years of Nord at all, if that's what's making you think you can't afford it.

It certainly can't protect whole system, I'm not a VPN expert but I have a software (a crypto mining software) that can somehow use my real IP even though I have WindScribe always enabled and only added in Split Tunneling (For some of my country local only websites that can't be opened with a foreign country IP).

I don't know how still some softwares can show my real IP but at least in Chrome (where that I actually need it) websites can't find my real IP.

So I don't think you should use WindScribe or any VPN for becoming totally anonymous if you really scared of some real shit happens.

Most of us, use a VPN for just porn, using other countries content or passing government blocked services in shitty countries like mine.

Maybe that's because is blocked in your country like mine. When that happens to me, I try to change protocol and port settings to every single combination available and somehow it got fixed.

Also sometimes happend to me that some specific WindScribe server that I use is down and I can't connect with any protocol setting, so you should try to changing server too.

PIA NextGeneration server set up is really good, you will not find too many companies with that set up, it really comes down to whether you trust the company or not and I trust PIA as much as the others, NordVPN, WindScribe, etc. They all can screw you, NordVPN was hacked in the past and WindScribe had one of their servers seized and it wasn´t encrypted.

I already found your post, but that’s describing changing the DNS on Windows.

I have set WindScribe up via WireGuard on my OPNsense router so I can have my entire network use WindScribe as the WAN gateway.

My DNS on both the and all my network devices is already set to my local PiHole, which forwards to my local recursive Unbound.

My main problem is, I don’t know how to verify that the Unbound recursive queries are not hijacked to redirect to WindScribe’s DNS servers. Because, when I run a DNS leak test, the DNS public IP is not the same as the WAN public IP (both seem to be in the same subnet but come out of different addresses?)

A dig +trace however doesn’t show “10.255.255.x” in the DNS trace.

So, is WindScribe hijacking my Unbound recursive requests, or simply redirecting the recursive requests to use another internet facing IP?

/u/o2pb /u/WindscribeSupport

Making YouTube videos takes a lot of time and effort.
Pay the premium subscription - you get no ads, and the creators get their share. :)

Or just skip the videos that are piled with ads.

That's what I see as the ethical way of doing it.

Let the downvoting commence... :)

Apart from that, on both Linux and Windows, Firefox with AdGuard AdBlocker does the job. With, or without WindScribe.

At least, they can activate protection only for sensitive parts of their website. For example I saw a famous web hosting website that only blocked WindScribe IP on their login page. Also if they're doing it to preventing DDoS, It's way better to have a captcha workaround like what Cloudflare do instead of a complete block.

I don't know but that's my first time I wanted to visit that website with this WindScribe IP but because VPN IPs are shared to many people, maybe there is a reason that many websites started to block VPN IPs but I don't expect a company who sells VPN enabled routers to do the same.

I mean I have to solve a captcha in almost every protected website but we don't expect to do it in a VPN seller website as well

Try completely shutting down your PC and turning it on again after 3-5 mins, I say shut down because Windows 10 Fast Boot can bring back stuff even after restarting your system. if it's still happening, then it's definitely one of your softwares that are interfere with WindScribe. did you change anything in Windows Defender? because Windows Defender can do that too, for example its Anti-Ransomeware option if enabled can completely prevent some programs to open. You should check every Windows startup item that you have in Task Manager too and also check if WindScribe service is not disabled in windows services. Eventually if you can't find the problem, we need u/windscribe to explain us exactly in which cases this error happens.

So, it's might be something else but WindScribe errors is really confusing and not helping at all, In my case uninstalling and reinstalling again didn't work and I can't even completely uninstall it because of that user running it, but you should try uninstall and reinstalling again, maybe it work for you.

I just had that error, In my case that was because another Windows user has opened WindScribe and I have to completely sign out from that user first then it's runs fine in my user too. It's because you can't have multiple instances of WindScribe (or I think any VPN)

Try setting a manual DNS of either 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4/1.1.1.1.
If it doesn't work, try a VPN like WindScribe/whatever you choose.
You should try to contact your ISP if these solutions isn't working.

I have all of these settings but sometimes Wi-Fi stops working for me. I've found that turning on and off WindScribe VPN fixes Wi-Fi issues somehow. I use a paid version, but because you only need to turn it on and off, I'm assuming you could use a free version as well.

WindScribe was caught with uncompromised servers. That plus not having verification of their no logging policy, either in court or audit, makes it hard to recommend.

It's says:

ISP: Database by Design, LLC · Your Status: Protected

as I said I always make sure to not expose my real ip, and on pc I have additional softwares besides WindScribe. so I'm pretty sure that's not a IP leak.

Oh, I see what you're talking about. Those were off for me by default. That's a little bit tucked away in there, I think the WindScribe developers should look at their GUI for the browser extension to make those features more clear for users.

Sure, I recommend using WindScribe. All you need to do is just register the account and that’s all. You will receive and can be use up to 2gb (for guest account) and 10gb (with registered email) of VPN bandwidth in total PER month and it will be reset after next month.

This is a free plan, you can upgrade ur plan as if you like.

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That is exactly what I was looking for sadly that was two months ago and I could not wait that long for a answer so I just downloaded a Free VPN (WindScribe) and used it for the few minutes that I needed it for and uninstalled it.

Hopefully your comment can help someone else though.

I actually like how Google handles that. Amount of archivrs depends from your choosen settings, i always go for 1GB option, just because i can automated it later.

Remember that when you're downloading files, HTTPS is still protecting you, so with VPN service like WindScribe or Goose, you can suck as fast as you wish, because you are limited to few megs per IP, not per account.

I'm already using WindScribe in my Xbox with Hotspot sharing from my PC but I think PS and Xbox never add support for any VPN because they use our IP for their country restrictions, so if they allow VPN apps every single user can easily override their IP restrictions.

For example Xbox Rewards program is not available in my country but I use WindScribe US server and already claimed more than $30 from rewards.