{"slug": "windscribe", "name": "Windscribe", "category": "networking", "category_name": "Networking and VPN", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 8, "warners": 0, "score": 4.109, "rising": 0.35, "first": "2025-12-13", "latest": "2026-09-05", "why": "currently on Windscribe since they had a deal through Kagi and seem to have the most real vs fake VPN endpoints", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 5, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "currently on Windscribe since they had a deal through Kagi and seem to have the most real vs fake VPN endpoints", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "nitter.net", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://windscribe.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Windscribe"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 793168544, "item_id": 49573034, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49573034", "by": "ZeWaka", "date": "2026-09-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Switched to Windscribe at the time, quite cheap.", "excerpt": "Switched to Windscribe at the time, quite cheap.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Shutting down our public encrypted DNS"}, {"id": 784274771, "item_id": 49017173, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017173", "by": "Melatonic", "date": "2026-07-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "currently on Windscribe since they had a deal through Kagi and seem to have the most real vs fake VPN endpoints", "excerpt": "Kagi is awesome. Highly recommend it. And Orion as well. The combo of NextDNS + Kagi + occasional VPN (currently on Windscribe since they had a deal through Kagi and seem to have the most real vs fake VPN endpoints) is super seamless and easy", "context": "", "use_case": "VPN", "switched_from": "", "story": "Back to Kagi"}, {"id": 770363904, "item_id": 48147744, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147744", "by": "reincoder", "date": "2026-05-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Windsribe and iVPN.", "excerpt": "Windsribe and iVPN. https://ipinfo.io/vpnreport", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["vpn"], "compared": [{"slug": "mullvad", "name": "Mullvad", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "ivpn", "name": "IVPN", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568579", "title": "Shutting down our public encrypted DNS", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49006195", "title": "Back to Kagi", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269493", "title": "S there room for a VPN with zero Five Eyes servers and RAM-only infrastructure?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143880", "title": "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973882", "title": "Android VPN IP Leak Even If Always-On VPN Enabled", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690977", "title": "Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-04": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-05": {"neutral": 2, "recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 793168544, "item_id": 49573034, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49573034", "by": "ZeWaka", "date": "2026-09-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Switched to Windscribe at the time, quite cheap.", "excerpt": "Switched to Windscribe at the time, quite cheap.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Shutting down our public encrypted DNS"}, {"id": 784274771, "item_id": 49017173, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017173", "by": "Melatonic", "date": "2026-07-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "currently on Windscribe since they had a deal through Kagi and seem to have the most real vs fake VPN endpoints", "excerpt": "Kagi is awesome. Highly recommend it. And Orion as well. The combo of NextDNS + Kagi + occasional VPN (currently on Windscribe since they had a deal through Kagi and seem to have the most real vs fake VPN endpoints) is super seamless and easy", "context": "", "use_case": "VPN", "switched_from": "", "story": "Back to Kagi"}, {"id": 772314048, "item_id": 48269628, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269628", "by": "Cider9986", "date": "2026-05-25", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "https://windscribe.com/blog/i-doesnt-matter-how-many-eyes-you-have-66f59fc1e777/", "excerpt": "It doesn't matter how many eyes. Focusing on \"eyes\", is a 2013 mentality. https://windscribe.com/blog/i-doesnt-matter-how-many-eyes-you-have-66f59fc1e777/ https://mullvad.net/en/blog/5-9-or-14-eyes-your-vpn-actually-safe https://mullvad.net/en/vpn/laws-that-matter", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "S there room for a VPN with zero Five Eyes servers and RAM-only infrastructure?"}, {"id": 770363904, "item_id": 48147744, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147744", "by": "reincoder", "date": "2026-05-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Windsribe and iVPN.", "excerpt": "Windsribe and iVPN. https://ipinfo.io/vpnreport", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"}, {"id": 767629120, "item_id": 47976820, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976820", "by": "pogue", "date": "2026-05-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Windscribe vpn and it has an option for a split tunneling of apps", "excerpt": "Would that be an appropriate mitigation for this issue though, preventing IP leaks? I use Windscribe vpn and it has an option for a split tunneling of apps, so I have a bunch of apps I just let through. But, when I use the 'block connections without VPN' in always on VPN, it blocks those tunneled apps.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Android VPN IP Leak Even If Always-On VPN Enabled"}, {"id": 763147473, "item_id": 47696717, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696717", "by": "Jigsy", "date": "2026-04-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Windscribe is now the third one to be terminated by Microsoft as well...", "excerpt": "Windscribe is now the third one to be terminated by Microsoft as well... https://nitter.net/windscribecom/status/2041929519628443943", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates"}, {"id": 759958273, "item_id": 47497392, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47497392", "by": "exiguus", "date": "2026-03-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "VPN: Windscribe [CA]", "excerpt": "My next phone will be also one that is supported by GraphenOS. Currently, my private setup is: - VPN: Windscribe [CA] - AI: Mistral [FR] - Phone: De-Googled Fairphone [NL] (F-Droid/Aurora/OpenStreetMap) - Search: Self-hosted SearXNG + YACY (since ~10 years / good setup & documentation) - Domain Provider: INWX [DE] (since +10 years / good setup & documentation) - DNS: Self-hosted AdGuard Home / dnscrypt-proxy 2 + dnsd", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Migrating to the EU"}, {"id": 740150289, "item_id": 46259393, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259393", "by": "godelski", "date": "2025-12-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I'm a bit curious about how that works. I love Mullvad but routinely I find sites like Reddit completely block it. Even yesterday someone posted a Debian wiki link[0] and I was blocked. It's not all of them but Reddit is a big killer. So I thought China would block all of them (aren't they known?) Fwiw I'm not switching from mullvad [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252366", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits"}]}