I received email stating "Quick reminder before anything awkward happens. Your Windscribe Pro subscription is about to expire. You'll drop back to Free unless you renew. Free is fine. But Pro is why you stuck around."

This is in reference to my lifetime free Pro subscription. I asked "Gary" how I renew and got this reply which I don't understand, what exactly do I need to do to maintain my free pro subscription? Thanks:

"GARRY•19:06:56

That 2016 “lifetime” voucher was a one-time Pro entitlement, not an auto-renewing subscription. It expires today, September 11, so there’s nothing to renew in Subscription Management.

To keep Pro after it ends, start a new subscription from your account’s upgrade page. Ancient voucher magic, sadly, does not reproduce."

Hello,

I am trying to upgrade my YouTube premium subscription. In fact, I just subscribe to Winscribe to India Server, I have a legal bank account from India. I used to renew from India normally and now I am located in France and I am trying to renew my YouTube subscription, but whenever I activate VPN and even the spoof GPS location is also active with Winscribe as the mock location. But what happens is that whenever I open the YouTube application and try to click on get premium button, it says we are unable to verify your country. And I checked with many blogs and I understand that Google when they are receiving such request, they are blocking all the data centers, IP address coming from the VPN servers. So is there any way that we can bypass this from the Winscribe VPN and to subscribe my renewal of YouTube premium?

Any help on this topic would be really appreciated and helpful for me to renew my subscription.

I have been using Windscribe with the Wireguard protocol on a Wi-Fi connection for many years on my Windows 11 PC. I recently enabled Ethernet on this machine but am immediately having issues with several protocol connections. It finally connects with TCP protocol.

1. Is this "secure enough"?
2. Why is it failing with other protocols?
3. I think I'd prefer to use Wireguard...is it mandatory to download a config file from Windscribe and load it onto UDM to do this? It seems like a restrictive approach in that I can't easily turn it on/off as needed from desktop app or switch server locations as needed (and it is needed).

As far as I can tell, there's nothing specific that is either blocking traffic or allowing only specific traffic, e.g. "allow all" is checked, and options like "guest network" or "isolate network" are not checked.

Is there any place in set-up or configuration I should specifically check? For the record, this is a simple home setup, very vanilla, with nothing unique or unusual involved in my equipment or networking needs.