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Thank you. They do say that they get commissions, but I found some interesting VPNs there. Had never heard of Windscribe, and it sounded interesting. Luckily this post gave an important warning about it.
Best option may actually be to do a search on VPN opinions here on Lemmy...
For what it's worth, I've been enjoying the heck out of AirVPN since then, with absolutely no issues.
It’s very slow compared to other VPNs.
Thank you for the updates! I agree that they should simply state a clear data limit, given that they have one. One of my concerns about them is their being based in Canada, Five Eyes. Although I wonder how's the Five Eyes situation now, given the present political storm.
Opinions will vary. For instance, I've been torrenting with Windscribe with no issues since before that post was made and would still recommend it, so...
Edit Feb 2026: I got my account disabled lol. So much for that!
Their service was genuinely good for the short time I used it. You'll note in my post that I would still recommend it to anyone who doesn't plan on doing more than average browsing and light torrenting.
They just wanted an excuse to cut me off since I made more use of it than the average person likely does, and their 'unlimited' advertising means you can't actually know what their real limits are.
Someone must have pissed in their cereal that day or something. Just checked my monthly data and it certainly isn't low. Happy the new VPN is working for you though!
With that kind of usage you may get banned so just watch out.
As recently as this month https://old.reddit.com/r/Windscribe/comments/1q5py5w/how_much_is_too_much/
That said, I agree that windscribe is great. If your usage is less than say 10tb per month you're probably fine. I regularly do a couple terabytes and no problems. Plus they have port forwarding, and even port forwarding without a static ip
Well I fucked around and found out lol, just got the email today.
Darn 😂 Don't say you weren't warned
Absolutely. I've heard other positive user comments on Windscribe.