Is Windscribe Chrome extension safe?

Does Windscribe take your data?

Windscribe is free to download, but it does have ads.

What data do they collect? Windscribe's privacy policy and terms of service (Privacy Policy) provide an explanation of how Windscribe handles the information that it collects from visitors to its website. You can read Windscribe's privacy policy by visiting the Windscribe website. Click the link to read it in its entirety.

Windscribe may collect information from you in connection with the use of the website, including the content you post on this website and the way you interact with this website. Windscribe may also collect information about your computer, such as the type and version of your operating system and browser, your IP address, referring URL, Internet Service Provider, pages visited and the times, frequency and length of your visits to this website.

In addition, if you contact Windscribe via its email, Windscribe may keep a record of your email address for the purpose of maintaining such contact and/or to provide you with information about products or services offered by Windscribe. As mentioned in Windscribe's privacy policy, Windscribe may share your personal information with third parties, including those located outside of the United States, in order to carry out the purposes set out in Windscribe's privacy policy, as well as for general business purposes. Why should I care about your privacy? Windscribe is happy to tell you why you should care about your privacy: Your privacy is important to us. We don't sell your personal information to anyone and we use your personal information only in accordance with our privacy policy.

Windscribe doesn't sell your personal information to anyone. When you visit Windscribe, we ask for your name and email address so we can answer your questions. We do not sell or give your name and email address to anyone. We are permitted to send you the newsletter, as well as advertisements about Windscribe products. We may use your personal information to communicate with you about other Windscribe products and services, and our newsletter service. If you don't want to receive these messages, you can opt out of receiving them at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions in any email message you receive from Windscribe.

Windscribe doesn't use your personal information for marketing purposes. Windscribe does not send spam.

Is Windscribe Chrome extension safe?

A recent post over at the PC Perspective blog prompted me to revisit Windscribe and one of my complaints that I still have about their service is that they use Chrome extensions (which I will not elaborate on but you can do your own searching if you're interested). I can tell from their page that this extension, Windscribe Secure VPN Proxy Beta, has been updated to v2.0 yesterday and what I'm wondering if it's just me or if this latest version doesn't work either. I'm using it right now and as far as I can tell there aren't any problems with the last version however. But I'll be more familiar with the new version once I use it for a few days.

Anyway, for those of you who use the Windscribe VPN service here are some of my thoughts: I don't use their "Free" version even though it allows me to keep all the benefits of the premium service (including logging/data collection etc.) so don't feel I'm bashing them too much when I say that. They charge for VPN and they should probably have a paid version where you don't have to give so much info.

The service seems to work well for my needs on Windows 7 and 8 however I cannot attest to its performance on Windows 10 (and therefor haven't been able to try it on a laptop I currently have). They claim it's better but I'll reserve judgement until I know more.

You really need to be careful when downloading the .crx files that you trust and get those directly from them rather than from 3rd party places like BitNami or other similar services.

Using the default settings for their "Free" version means that you are vulnerable to logging and being tracked by whoever is monitoring your internet traffic. You can see and make changes for yourself on their website.

Since it uses Chrome extensions I thought it would be safe but just as with any free web browser if someone you don't trust gains access to your cookies and other data then they can make requests to logins to your account. I haven't been able to test this but I was under the impression that if you use the Firefox browser you aren't giving those details either which is what keeps you from accessing your account on services like Twitter etc. (since your logged in and can see and update your status).

Does Windscribe leak data?

Hi All, I had a question on the data that is collected by Windscribe.

I'm not sure if the data is sent to the server or not. If it's not sent, then why are they able to track my data usage? Also, if they are tracking my data usage and they are sending it to the server, how would I be able to stop that from happening? Thanks

Hi All, I had a question on the data that is collected by Windscribe. Thanks You can't, unless you pay them to let you. There is a lot of information on this thread already.

Quote: Originally Posted by rwong81. I'm not a windscribe user so I don't know, but it seems like any "tracking" done by them could be done by anyone (maybe by the ISP doing the tracking, or some other party on their network). Ok, thanks for the response. They can only track data usage when you are using Windscribe. If you are not using Windscribe, they cannot see how much data you are using.

I've just signed up with Windscribe (as a client), to see how it works. I don't have an account at the moment, but will be buying the service at some point in the future.