The reason you don’t hear about these publicly is because the case doesn’t go anywhere thanks to the no-logging policy. They request data, we tell them we don’t have any and that’s that.
And that’s the end of the request? No being called into court to verify the non-existence of ANY data? No requests for user lists gleaned from payments? The people requesting data simply shrug their shoulders and walk away? Really?
Blocked from the website?
You’re just used to shady anonymous VPN owners wanting to keep obscene profits to pay affiliates 50% of their revenue, buy night clubs, IRC networks, etc.
You mean like Windscribe?
https://windscribe.com/affiliate
Why don’t you recommend using it, at this point?
I really doubt limiting you to one server has any cost implications, unless we are talking about the WindFlix servers.
Very much this. There’s even an article on the WS site somewhere about how practically impossible it is to be 100% hidden while online.
Windscribe (and other VPNs) isn’t made for breaking the law, it’s to keep your traffic as private as possible.
In fairness it’s also for getting around garbage network restrictions (which is a big reason I use it).
Very correct! In Russia, the head of the information security center of our FBI was sentenced to 23 years for crimes on the Internet. He knew better about security, but that did not save him.
I think they mean the client side. Most of the server side is probably bog standard open source software already.
Yurp. I’m connected right now. definitely a good tool to use on your mobile device.
Could you please elaborate more?
Well done. All you need now is a keyboard with a working space bar.
maybe the problem wasnt the vpn
But what has that to do with Windscribe?
Ik it probably aint from Windscribe, but i’ve been fighting mexican hackers with Amex, mfs been charging thousands of pesos on Amazon.
I’m in Canada.
Yes. By making a statement to law enforcement that we keep no logs we’re stating a fact. If we’re lying, we go to jail. We don’t want to go to jail, so it’s dumb to lie about it. It’s easier to not actually keep identifying logs.
Not at the moment but I plan on writing an end-of-year newsletter post for this subreddit in a couple of weeks. I’ll include details about the future plans as well.
Did you read the literally next sentence?
We don’t advertise, so our affiliate spending is less than 5% of our earnings. Soon to be zero, as we’re getting rid of the affiliate program.
There was an old go-to joke where an IT professional would demonstrate the only way to be 100% safe and they’d unplug the modem.
I assume you might mean this: https://blog.windscribe.com/how-to-actually-be-anonymous-online-801811b7088d
Very informative.