Windscribe VPN developments [other vpn's welcome]

Brian_G said:
Windscribe's Garry bot answer:


Alright, here’s the deal: sharing your Windscribe account with your household is technically fine within reason. We’re not corporate tyrants policing your living room — if it’s just your own devices, your spouse, maybe the kids’ iPads, go wild. You can use Windscribe on as many personal devices as you want.

However, the moment Aunt Petunia, your gym buddy, or “a friend from Discord” start hopping on, that’s account sharing — and that’s a big no-no. It violates our Terms of Service and can get your account permanently banned faster than Eskom drops the grid.

To summarize:
  • Personal use within one household = totally fine (reasonable usage expected).
  • Sharing with people outside your household or randoms = not fine, not allowed.
  • You need multiple accounts for a group or team? Check out ScribeForce, our multi-user plan that was literally built for that.
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I think they still use IBM Watson, or well, they built their chatbot on that. Today that would be watsonx. Something about the temperature is telling me that they might not use watsonx LLM. There are only that many LLMs that is tuned to converse like that. I doubt it would be a custom LLM, but they will have custom data sources.

Just my opinion.
 
This dev didn't help with my XNeelo (hosting) access.

Just tried all(?) 6 of the IP rotation possibilities for my favourite local VPN server, made no difference
 
We've been having a time out problem for the last few months with our MTN LTE service, especially during peak hours. No idea if that's anti-VPN usage related or not but we do use ours regularly. Somewhat "solved" by repeatedly pinging in standard fashion.

This morning I discovered there's a keep-alive ping setting in the desktop Windscribe's advanced options - Edit: not as good so far but does help.
(Fairly sure it will also work on the free version)
 
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I like to use a VPN because I dont fully trust the networks I am on. I like being able to choose my exit point on the internet. I like how it limits tracking of my personal information (doesnt stop it, but limits it). I like how I can play games online without my IP being taken.

I also intend to travel and may end up in countries with poor human rights records. So would like a censorship resistant vpn to still be able to access the data I need.

A VPN doesnt hide you, but I like how it limits who can have access to your traffic.
 
BBSA said:
I was just wondering
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Mixed reasons.

There's someone in my house who's too radically political (keyboard version only), so glad for that potential shield, but we're generally very into net privacy anyway.

And I stray over the conservative concept line of "legal" (ethical) when it comes to some video content.

It probably offers added security in some conditions as well.

That's the bulk of it. Any reasons you want to share?
 
Brian_G said:
Mixed reasons.

There's someone in my house who's too radically political (keyboard version only), so glad for that potential shield, but we're generally very into net privacy anyway.

And I stray over the conservative concept line of "legal" (ethical) when it comes to some video content.

It probably offers added security in some conditions as well.

That's the bulk of it. Any reasons you want to share?
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I mainly used it to change my geo-location so I could access streaming content from different countries, but I don’t need that anymore since switching to IPTV.

I also don’t fully trust our Internet providers, but I just use Cloudflare WARP. It’s a free service, and I’m not sure whether a VPN would actually give me more privacy.
 
BBSA said:
I also don’t fully trust our Internet providers, but I just use Cloudflare WARP. It’s a free service, and I’m not sure whether a VPN would actually give me more privacy.
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Cloudflare.... can't live without them, not sure I want to live with them..

I like that Windscribe goes to the n-th degree to ensure (and even guarantee most) privacy, in all respects.
 
Anyone else worried about Cloudflare?
Most of their business is supportive of the corporate world, and they do offer a VPN-blocking service (appears to be IP-blocklist based).
 
Bot Garry's links for detail;


Ah, going full tinfoil hat mode today, huh? I like it. Windscribe actually takes privacy seriously — not just “we promise pinky swear” seriously.

Here are your breadcrumbs into the privacy rabbit hole:
That about covers our privacy stance — encrypting your traffic, not tracking you, and forgetting your existence as soon as you disconnect.

Would you like me to throw in info about our encryption and DNS privacy too? That’s where things get nerdy.
 
BBSA said:
I suppose if you work with sensitive information or have something to hide, a VPN is important, but for most of us, it’s not essential.
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I think that's changed.

1. This has become a somewhat politically-scary country for too many of us, and getting worse.

2. A lot of people now going the "semi-legal" route with video content.
  • Geo-blocking - the industry doesn't officially like us bypassing it, but it's not actually illegal and is ignored.
  • "Illegal" "free" sites - much claimed-as-free content which often isn't really free (that's hard to determine either way), that nobody has ever been prosecuted for accessing. But why chance it..
  • Better protection for those who still use torrents.

Most prefer the legal route (that's determined). The above is at least leaning that way, compared to some IPTV sources that actually peddle truly illegal access.
 
I get nothing from the geoblocking aspect. Most media providers know when I am using a VPN. I actually have to use split routing to watch something streaming.
 
ipinfo.io

Should You Trust Your VPN Location?

17 out of 20 popular VPNs exit traffic from different countries than they claim. Dig into what that means and why it matters in our VPN report.
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These are some of the most visible names in the market. They also tend to have very long country lists on their websites. Notably, three well-known providers had zero mismatches across all the countries we tested: Mullvad, IVPN, and Windscribe.

Country mismatches doesn’t automatically mean some providers offer “bad VPNs,” but it does mean that if you’re choosing a VPN because it claims “100+ countries,” you should know that a significant share of those flags may be labels, or virtual locations.
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Brian_G said:
Anyone else worried about Cloudflare?
Most of their business is supportive of the corporate world, and they do offer a VPN-blocking service (appears to be IP-blocklist based).
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Cloudflare is not something the average person should be worried about. If anything, they make the internet safer and faster. The only legitimate concern is the amount of reliance the world has on one company, but that’s a general infrastructure risk, not a sign of bad behaviour.
 
Notably, three well-known providers had zero mismatches across all the countries we tested: Mullvad, IVPN, and Windscribe.
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@Smiggles , recently noticed mismatches with Windscribe, but when checking deeper they're disproved.

For some reason a few IP-checking sites get some of the lookups wrong. Most noticeable for that was google search :rolleyes:
 
In Proton's defence, their app makes it clear which servers aren’t physically located in the exit country.

protonvpn.com

What is Smart Routing? | Proton VPN

Smart Routing is a technology that allows us to offer VPN servers in countries we might not otherwise be able to.
protonvpn.com protonvpn.com
 
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