Windscribe - Free Proxy and Ad Blocker

Windscribe - Free Proxy and Ad Blocker

Windscribe helps you mask your physical location, circumvent censorship, and block ads and trackers on websites you use every day

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What is Windscribe - Free Proxy and Ad Blocker?

Windscribe - Free Proxy and Ad Blocker is an extension for Edge designed to offer enhanced privacy online, block ads and trackers, unblock restricted content, and prevent webRTC leaks. With features like GPS location spoofing, timezone and language spoofing, this extension goes beyond providing basic privacy protection. Plus, it's part of a larger suite of tools that includes desktop VPN applications.

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Stats
Stats date:
Rating: 4.10 (94)
Version: 3.4.8 (Last updated: 2022-12-21)
Creation date: 2021-11-26
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • <all_urls>
  • proxy
  • management
  • tabs
  • webRequest
  • webRequestBlocking
  • activeTab
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
  • contextMenus
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Size: 3.26M
Risk impact: Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

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Merlin
Summary

Windscribe helps you mask your physical location, circumvent censorship, and block ads and trackers on websites you use every day

Windscribe is a VPN desktop application and proxy browser extension that work together to block ads, trackers, restore access to blocked content and help you safeguard your privacy online. Free plan provides 10 GB of data per month (if you confirm your email address), and the Pro plan has unlimited data and access to servers in over 110 cities in 63 countries.

Still not convinced? Perhaps this elegant list of features will convince you otherwise.

Browse Privately

Governments block content based on your location. Corporations track and sell your personal data. Add Windscribe to your browser and take back control of your privacy.

Advanced Privacy Features

Windscribe is not just a proxy extension. It's a suite of privacy tools which include:

  • Ad + Tracker Blocking - Ads and trackers follow you around, waste your bandwidth and compromise your privacy. Windscribe will block all this crap.
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User reviews
User reviews summary
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Edge Add-on Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Many servers
  • Fast and stable speed
  • Privacy protection
Cons
  • Crashes frequently
  • Many premium countries
  • Error fetching API after logging
Most mentioned
  • Free plan
  • Crashes
  • Premium countries
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Safety
Risk impact

Windscribe - Free Proxy and Ad Blocker is not very risky to use and it requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Avoid installing this add-on unless you absolutely trust this publisher.

Risk likelihood

Windscribe - Free Proxy and Ad Blocker has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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