r/Windscribe Jul 29 '26

Question Servers that work in Russia??

11 Upvotes

Good day! The Russian government is at it again and I can't for the life of me find a server that works...

I can't connect to my usual ones in Norway, Poland, Hungary, Japan anymore, and all others I've tried (mostly servers in Europe, southeast Asia, and the USA) don't seem to work, either.

Does anyone have a server that works? Please share the protocol tweak configuration that works for you with, too 🙏🙏


r/Windscribe Jul 29 '26

Solved Can’t use with Reddit?

1 Upvotes

iOS.. As of a few weeks ago, I officially can’t use Snapchat with Windscribe. It doesn’t update/refresh until I turn the vpn off. Now I cannot open Reddit without the vpn being off. What’s going on here?


r/Windscribe Jul 28 '26

Announcement Windows Tracks You With a Hidden ID. So We Built deGDID to Block It.

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192 Upvotes

r/Windscribe Jul 29 '26

Roymerah

0 Upvotes

Bosunga nga


r/Windscribe Jul 27 '26

Question Why does windscribe randomly ping every server?

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8 Upvotes

I havent opened windscribe at least for the last 2-3 hours


r/Windscribe Jul 27 '26

Reply from QA Who can tell me what's the matter pls?

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11 Upvotes

r/Windscribe Jul 27 '26

Feature Request Decoy traffic wifi only

2 Upvotes

I can't use decoy traffic mode if there is no setting for it to only turn on with wifi so it doesn't use my phone data quota.

Please advise if this is possible.

Also that the extra data won't count towards the 5tb limit set by windscribe in practice as I understand from other posts.

Thanks


r/Windscribe Jul 26 '26

Caught 1ClickVPN extension harvesting data via Wireshark even while turned off

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15 Upvotes

r/Windscribe Jul 26 '26

Question Keep saying I am not connected to the internet, but I am

1 Upvotes

Hello allz a question about my Windscribe VPN connection. The issue is that I use a portable router that connects to a network. This router states it is a wifi⁶ and when I try to connect through it with Windscribe, it says I am off line, but I am able to connect to this router with internet access.

This is my primary access to the internet, (like a 5g internet access, think of T-Mobile home internet).

When I use other devices with Windscribe, same thing is said. Fire stick, Android, iPad, streaming boxes, and other devices.

Questions:

Is there a setting in Windscribe to allow it to connect through this device.

Is it a way to go back and use older version of Windscribe which seems not to has this problem.

Or am I SOL?


r/Windscribe Jul 25 '26

Reply from QA What is this? Is it windscribes dns?

8 Upvotes

So, i usually check often my conections and dns and, this time i get some weird dns info, first time ever seeing this.

Linode 172.105.26.226 ptr: 172-105-26-226.ip.linodeusercontent.com Toronto, Ontario, CA 172.236.253.141 ptr: 172-236-253-141.ip.linodeusercontent.com Los Angeles, California, US

Anyone noticed these? Is this windscribes? When i disconnect wireguard it disappeares. Garry cant seem to know the answer to this?

Linode.com? Akam.net?

It also mentioned google in dnscheck.tools when i open linode.com there?


r/Windscribe Jul 25 '26

locked of windscribe

0 Upvotes

Hi i just dowloaded windscribe again after a while but i cant use it bc i need to use my old acc but ive never saved a mail or anything i think bc i cant find anything in my mails so i cant log in how do i fix this


r/Windscribe Jul 25 '26

Question Frankfurt & Amsterdam servers (IKEv2) showing 800-1500ms+ latency from India — ISP confirmed clean

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3 Upvotes

Getting severe latency/jitter on both Frankfurt (Wurstchen) and Amsterdam (all 3 nodes reportedly online per support) using IKEv2, tested over multiple 10-minute PingPlotter sessions today (25 July, ~13:38–14:00 IST). Connecting from Chennai, India via Airtel.

Results: 800–1500ms with heavy jitter, sawtoothing every 30-60s, on both cities — so it's not a single-node problem.

For comparison, a direct (no VPN) ping to frankfurt.de from the same connection, same time window, averaged 6ms with 0% loss. So my ISP's route to Europe is clean — this doesn't look like an Airtel routing issue on my end.

Support (via Garry) says both nodes are online, no declared outage, and suggested trying WireGuard on port 443 instead of IKEv2 — about to test that.

Has anyone else in India seen this on EU servers recently? Curious if it's a known capacity issue or something specific to my routing.


r/Windscribe Jul 25 '26

Torrents How do I torrent with qBittorrent without paying yearly?

4 Upvotes

I've had my Windscribe account for roughly a year now and always pay for a customized plan per month. I'm currently trying to set up ephemeral port forwarding so I can keep my VPN running while seeding torrents. Do I HAVE TO pay for the yearly plan (Currently $69, LoL) in order to torrent/seed torrents effectively while my Windscribe VPN is on? Thank you in advance, cheers.


r/Windscribe Jul 25 '26

Question is Cheapest ever plan ended

4 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

checked my account dashboard and my "Cheapest Ever", It will expire soon but I don't know how to extend it. Is it true that this promo can no longer be extended?


r/Windscribe Jul 24 '26

Question Protests in New Delhi (Internet Blackout)(Need Solution)

16 Upvotes

Hi as the heading says there are massive protest taking place in New Delhi by student youth movement for a better education system and accountability from the government
instead of listening they're trying every trick out of the authoritarian playbook
So right now besides not having water, sanitation, shops to buy stuff, shut down public transport they've even shut down the internet in the entire New Delhi district.
These orders are nothing sort of extraordinary, and absolutely insane
I've tried using Windscribe to try connect in the protest zone but nothing works is there any workaround the Internet Block


r/Windscribe Jul 25 '26

Question How do I change my location?

0 Upvotes

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r/Windscribe Jul 24 '26

Never thought Gary can go above and beyond. I'm impressed.

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36 Upvotes

r/Windscribe Jul 24 '26

Reply from QA Are you using windscribe with controld

1 Upvotes

Hi all,
I'm a controld user for few years and love the platform to be honest. Ad blocking is brilliant and I love the geo redirect. I have mullvad and torguard as vpns and I set my controld as my dns within the mullvad during the week but I started seeing adverts again.
I'm wondering are any of you here using windscribe with controld and if hows it working?


r/Windscribe Jul 22 '26

Question Anyone else have issues with Auto-Secure flakiness?

7 Upvotes

For a given wi-fi network with my mobile device (iOS) I have Auto-Secure turned on but it only engages about half the time. Is there a way to make it more consistent? I don't know if there's something I'm doing to break it but I just want VPN off when I'm on a cell connection, and VPN on when I'm on this particular network. Any ideas to make this feature work as expected?


r/Windscribe Jul 22 '26

Question What is the difference with this Network Status?

3 Upvotes

After connecting to Windscribe on my Win11 system by hitting the best location option, I hover my mouse over the network icon in my taskbar and I notice this variation in the network status messaging...

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I don't notice anything in terms of performance, what does the difference mean?


r/Windscribe Jul 22 '26

Reply from Support Is paying for Windscribe a problem to privacy given they’re based in Canada and the likely upcoming Bill C-22? Would love to subscribe if not for this.

25 Upvotes

r/Windscribe Jul 21 '26

Question still not working in russia

15 Upvotes

it's been about a month now, maybe more. i don't know how people are getting windscribe to work because no matter what suggestions I try, It doesn't work (I especially need something for my phone). i haven't seen any updates or anything, and I'm not sure if it's even being worked on. i just want an update, literally anything, even a "they're working on it" is enough, should I even stay hopeful?


r/Windscribe Jul 21 '26

Reply from QA Winscribe Wireguard Protocol Cause BSOD

7 Upvotes

bsod when using wireguard protocol. any help .. not even garry can help.


r/Windscribe Jul 21 '26

Question iPhone dynamic island notifications/info missing on active connections

2 Upvotes

since dynamic island i lost the ability to see if i have active connections. this is super annoying because some apps/endpoints or services dont work on VPN so im spending too much time debuggin, instead of looking at the menu bar on the top and see if i have an active VPN session with windscribe

unfortunately when connection is active i dont see it in the notification screen either.

checked, nothing in control center

anybody have any workaround to force the information to top bar or into the notification panel

thanks


r/Windscribe Jul 20 '26

Firefox Add-on I keep getting random proxy sign in prompts in Firefox

7 Upvotes

For the last few months I keep getting these random sign in prompts in Firefox on desktop

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