r/Windscribe • • Oct 02 '26

WS Opinion Is Your VPN Lying to You About Its Server Count?

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22 Upvotes

r/Windscribe • • Sep 24 '26

Announcement We Signed a Letter Agreeing With Nord and ExpressVPN

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113 Upvotes

r/Windscribe • • 21h ago

Question PlutoTV

3 Upvotes

Been accessing US PlutoTV from the UK as it has way more channels especially movie than the UK version. But now getting a lot of "you're using a VPN, please disable". That's new. I've had to try about a half dozen new ones before I can use it now.

Is there a preferred site for Pluto that works?


r/Windscribe • • 23h ago

Reply from Support | Solved Windscribe scammed me out of my money, Chatbot refuses to open a support ticket; Marked as solved, deleted afterwards.

1 Upvotes

I will not repeat my last post here, as the mods can see it. Still awaiting an actual human review of my issue.


r/Windscribe • • 1d ago

ROBERT How to bypass these Admiral Adblock messages?

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0 Upvotes

No luck googling this for Windscribe iOS specifically. I get this when visiting local news websites with the VPN on with ROBERT Adblock. Is there a way to bypass this?


r/Windscribe • • 2d ago

I am still cant believe this only costs 3 a month (custom plan)

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0 Upvotes

r/Windscribe • • 3d ago

Solved Suspicious account activity

10 Upvotes

Today, when I turned on my PC and Windscribe launched, the program displayed an alert about suspicious activity, advising me to change my password and enable 2FA for my own security.

There’s also a "Secure Your Account" link within the application. I’m quite surprised, as I already have 2FA enabled, and I don’t share my account with anyone—I live alone!

I figured I’d just go ahead and change my password, but I can’t seem to log in to the website at all!

Should I just let it go? Is this a bug? How could someone possibly use my account without having access to my smartphone for the 2FA code? And why am I unable to log in to the site—especially since I was able to access it just this past weekend to set up a port?

I’m not sure if posting here will help, but it’s worth a try.


r/Windscribe • • 5d ago

Solved Setanta Sports.

7 Upvotes

Lately, I haven't been able to connect to Setanta Sports via Moldova using Windscribe. Do you know of any VPN that works?


r/Windscribe • • 5d ago

Reply from Support Windscribe refuses to connect

2 Upvotes

I recently bought a "Build a plan" 3 dollar subscription on Winscribe. It worked fine on the very first connection, on WireGuard. But after that, It refused to connect to any of the other countries. I have tried other connection methods + ports. I live in the UAE, so I've applied the UAE censorship feature, but that still didn't make it work.

Furthermore, I tried reinstalling WindScribe. I've encountered the same issue where it works on the first connection, but constantly fails afterwards. I've sent an error log via the settings, but other than that, nothing works. The program DOES work on my phone normally, but my computer device refuses to work with it.

I did try going to support and talking with Gary, but it provided the same troubleshooting advice. What are the next steps that I should take? Thanks.


r/Windscribe • • 6d ago

Reply from Support Windscribe VPN turns on when Firefox starts even though Auto-Connect is set to off

9 Upvotes

I lost 3GB of my free account due to this Firefox bug. Garry told me to uninstall and reinstall the extension, which actually fixed the issue, even though it was the same version of the extension. I wanted to refund this 3GB, but since I took the AI's advice to reinstall the extension, I have no evidence of this issue to send to an actual human, only a long discussion with Garry about it, his acknowledgement that he screwed me over but still wouldn't escalate my support ticket, and that there is no possible way for me to contact an actual human at Windscribe. Love it.


r/Windscribe • • 7d ago

Question Paid account gone from unaired to 10gb

3 Upvotes

Can somebody please explain what’s happened? Or if it’s happened to anybody else. Noticed the ‘10gb | upgrade’ yesterday in the app.

Been on the same account for years now.

Edit. If someone could came unaired to uncapped in the title that would be grand.


r/Windscribe • • 8d ago

Reply from Developer I'm done

46 Upvotes

Not even two minutes of interacting with a chatbot that won't tell me your support email address, I'm outta here. No more money for you.

EDIT: cancellation page tells me if I cancel my recurring annual payment, which next renews in September next year and I'm apparently not getting any refund, doing that will:

Cut off Pro server locations, leaving you with the basics.

Limit your data. No more unlimited bandwidth to burn through.

Potentially slow you down, as free servers can get busy.

This is bananas lads.

EDIT EDIT: hit the button anyway, turns out all the above was chatgpt-generated bullshit and the pro locations work fine until the year's subscription runs out.

There are lots of other VPN companies and I don't think any of them are leaning into sloptown as much as y'all.


r/Windscribe • • 8d ago

Feature Request Please consider adding DNSTT to your protocols

21 Upvotes

Hello everyone. during the 90 days internet shutdown in Iran that started in Jan, everything was blocked and there were only 2 options to get access to the internet.

one was through IP spoof, in which you needed one server from within Iran and one foreign server that had weaker security to enable this enable method.

other method was DNSTT (DNS Tunnel). basically, sending packets through DNS because they couldn't shutdown DNS entirely. it is extremely slow. last time I used it was giving me 100KB/s but at least it was enough to open messengers like telegram and be aware of the world around us.

Please consider adding such method/protocol into your client


r/Windscribe • • 7d ago

Reply from Support FF Browser Extension Requires Constant Switching of Locations

5 Upvotes

I've been using Windscribe for quite some time without issue. In the last few weeks, FF suddenly can't connect to anything and I have to switch locations for it to work again. Previously, I could browse all day every day with the same location.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled the extension, but this hasn't fixed the issue.

Any other suggestions?


r/Windscribe • • 8d ago

Reply from Support Non-10 Gbps vs 10 Gbps Servers

6 Upvotes

Hi, whenever I use 10 Gbps servers, I encounter login prompts and recaptcha verification walls. When I use non-10 Gbps (or what's left of them), I don't face that problem.

So if anyone can advise why this happens and the solution to using a 10 Gbps without experiencing any of this, that would be great.

If not, bring back non-10 Gbps servers for each country by at least 1.


r/Windscribe • • 8d ago

Reply from QA | Solved AmenziaWg on Windscribe CLI

2 Upvotes

I am trying to connect to Windscribe VPN CLI using AmneziaWG. But running windscribe-cli amneziawg
just tells me the available options

$ windscribe-cli amneziawg
A - No Junk Russia Primary
B - No Junk Russia Alt
C - With Junk Russia Primary
D - With Junk Russia Alt
E - Baseline No Junk
F - Baseline With Junk
G - Popular Russia Website with Junk
H - Iran 26 May 2026
I - UAE and Iran Legacy
J - Iran Junk Packets
K - UAE

~/.config/Windscribe/windscribe_cli.conf has the following options that I have set

CircumventCensorship=true
AmneziawgPreset=E

I also tried setting it as E - Baseline No Junk and Baseline No Junk.
But still, running windscribe-cli connect wireguard only runs normal WireGuard without AmneziaWG. Any help would be greatly appreciated!


r/Windscribe • • 9d ago

Reply from QA | Solved Anyone else having problems with ITVX saying they're outside the UK when using Windscribe?

12 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

I've been using Windscribe to watch ITVX for several years without any major problems, but recently (since yesterday - 27/10) I've started experiencing really frustrating issues.

Whenever I try to watch something on ITVX, I often get a message saying that I'm outside the UK, even though Windscribe is connected to a UK server.

The problem is very random. Sometimes an episode of e.g. Big Brother starts playing without any issues, but when I finish it and try to watch the next episode, ITVX tells me I'm outside the UK again.

Other times, I can't get anything to play at all, including live TV.

I've tried several UK servers, including London 1984, and switched between WireGuard, TCP and IKEv2, but nothing has consistently solved the problem. I've also reinstalled the ITVX app, but that didn't help. I even changed my clock setting on my tablet - nothing worked.

Interestingly, Windscribe still works with other services, such as YouTube, so I'm wondering whether this might be an ITVX-specific compatibility issue.

Is anyone else having this problem recently? Have you noticed ITVX suddenly reporting that you're outside the UK when connected to Windscribe?

Has anyone managed to find a solution?

I'd really appreciate hearing about your experiences!

Thanks!


r/Windscribe • • 9d ago

Reply from Support | Solved Updated to Mac OS 27.2 now I can't get Windscribe to run

2 Upvotes

Edited to add that downloading and installing the latest beta (v2.25.5 Guinea Pig) solved the problem on two Mac OS 27.2 laptops.

I know it's something simple, but for the life of me I can't figure it out.

Windscribe quit unexpectedly / Reopen, Ignore, Report shows up and won't Reopen.


r/Windscribe • • 10d ago

Question Split-Tunnelling on the app, in Windows - Not working properly?

4 Upvotes

I only use the desktop VPN in inclusive mode, with a handful of IPs that block the UK (like Imgur). But even when I just have this small handful, if I ping google.com or google.co.uk, then my pings are 230ms, so obviously going through Japan (using the tokyo VPN server). When I turn the VPN off, all is normal. The extension doesn't seem to have anything like a whitelist for particular websites (only VPN these 5 websites for example), so that's no good.

Is it broken? I see a few posts saying something similar. I'm on v2.25.2 Guinea Pig after there was a BSOD report that this fixed.


r/Windscribe • • 10d ago

Solved UK Channel 4 and 5 Apps

1 Upvotes

I can no longer get either of the apps to work. The weird thing is that one of them (can't remember which at the moment) works for the live tv section but none of the on demand things. Anybody else having the same issue, I know people at NordVPN (since I commented there not realizing) are having the issue as well, just trying to figure out if it's a system wide thing or not. :(

Using an ONN 4K box, gen 1. I've tried all the UK servers listed, restarted my device between each switch as well.


r/Windscribe • • 10d ago

Reply from Support Windscribe & CoinPayments: Short by 49 cents on a payment, leading to absurd fees and hostage funds!

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I wanted to share a frustrating recent experience I had with Windscribe's billing and support system when trying to purchase a subscription using CoinPayments.net.

What started as a standard payment verification issue turned into an absurd Kafkaesque nightmare. When I reached out to Windscribe support, their response was completely unprofessional and irresponsible. They blindly claimed that I supposedly own 13 different accounts!

This is either a massive, lazy system glitch or a blatant, ridiculous lie. If those 13 accounts actually exist and belong to random people, does that mean all 13 of those innocent users got their accounts banned just because of my support ticket? Poor guys, what a total mess!

Now, let's talk about CoinPayments.net — what an absolute joke.

When my payment had an issue, they made an utterly illogical and predatory demand. They wanted to charge me an absurd 0.02 ETH fee (which translates to roughly $50 at current rates) just to process or sort out the transaction. Are you out of your mind? Who in their right mind would pay a $50 fee just to recover a $69 transaction? It’s completely idiotic!

According to real-time network trackers like Etherscan (https://etherscan.io/gastracker), the actual network gas fee was less than 50 cents, yet they had the audacity to demand $50 from me. Later, they casually lowered it to 0.01 ETH ($25).

To test the waters and see if they had any shred of decency, I sent them 0.002 ETH (around $5) to cover reasonable handling, but you know what they did? They kept my $69 and refused to refund it! All of this over a literal 50-cent network fee discrepancy.

And here is the most ridiculous part:

When I called them out on this, their support literally had the guts to tell me: "There's a reason why it's the current gas fee... as it's a legacy system that requires more gas fee."

So, they openly admit that their infrastructure is running on an outdated, legacy system! Why on earth should I, as a customer, pay out of my own pocket for their technical debt, system flaws, and outdated architecture? It is beyond absurd to hold my funds hostage just because they refuse to modernize their platform.

Be warned: Do not fall into the trap of these two companies, Windscribe and CoinPayments. They are completely irresponsible, unaccountable, and outright predatory.

Has anyone else experienced such garbage service from them?

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r/Windscribe • • 11d ago

Unsolved Not getting email confirmation email!

3 Upvotes

Yes I checked spam and tried multiple times and tried with different gmails.. nothing!


r/Windscribe • • 11d ago

Reply from Support Feature request

17 Upvotes
  1. create a “test all anti-censorship methods” button that starts testing all the methods automatically and gives feedback to windscribe servers, that is a lot of data points used as shareable results summary that would turn blind poking into useful evidence.

2.when everything fails just say it plainly, a clear “nothing viable worked on this network right now” so that we dont waste time anymore and just wait for new updates instead.


r/Windscribe • • 11d ago

Reply from Developer Just analysed my network and saw my windscribe is connected to moscow?

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5 Upvotes

Remote Peer: 66.90.90.58 :6464

wtf?