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Celebrating 10 Years of Windscribe! 🎉 🎂 Today, April 20th, 2026, marks our 10th Anniversary. Some of you have been here nearly the full decade, others found us today. All of you make Windscribe what it is. Windscribe was started in 2016 because the founders looked around at the VPN industry and saw almost no good products. So they built one that was actually good. One for the users, built on real privacy principles. 10 years in, we are crushing that goal. Industry-leading privacy features, huge global infrastructure with physical servers, free tier speeds that rival competitors' Pro plans, open-source, feature-rich apps with insane flexibility (we have fart sounds for God's sake). And that's just scratching the surface. We're not VC funded. We built the whole thing from our own pockets. No appeasing greedy shareholders who don't give a shit about our mission or users. No affiliate program. If you see us on a "Best VPNs" list, we didn't pay for that spot. We're truly no-logging. The law took us to court and we broke their ankles because we had nothing to give them. And we have a community other brands could only dream of. You're helpful, generous, honest with us, you laugh at our dumb jokes, and you fight alongside us. In a time when the internet is getting more censored by the day, that matters more than ever. Thank you for 10 incredible years. There is still so much more to come! And we're celebrating with a birthday sale! $29/year (58% off) until May 4th: https://windscribe.com/upgrade?promo=10YRBABY&pcpid=2026_420_telegram

We have begun adding some new anti-censorship configurations to our apps for users in Iran. Yesterday we tested the first version of this and it worked for a little bit until it was blocked as well. Today we are publishing new configurations after making some changes to see if they work. Early tests were promising but with the internet blocking in Iran being very aggressive, we cannot say how long these new configurations will work for, or even if they will work at all. All we can do right now is try and hope for the best. If these stop working, we will explore more changes for Iran connections. To access the new configurations: 1. Make sure you have the latest version of the Windscribe apps. If you can't download them from the website, check the pinned messages in the Windscribe Chat channel where you'll find the files. 2. Go into Preferences > Connection > Connection Mode and set the Protocol to WireGuard on Port 443. 3. In Preferences > Connection, enable Circumvent Censorship. 4. Select a configuration file to use. THE NEWEST CONFIGURATIONS FOR USERS IN IRAN ARE: H - Iran Experimental v2 I - Iran Experimental v2 Try BOTH of these configurations and see if any locations work with them.

Welcome to the new economy of unproductivity. Introducing FuttBux ($FBUX) - the cryptocurrency you earn by doing nothing! FuttBux is directly linked to your Windscribe data usage - the less data you use, the more FuttBux you earn! It's that simple, and it's already live, waiting for you to start doing...nothing! If you're a Pro user, you can now access your FuttBux balance on your Windscribe account page. What can you use that balance for? Well for now, nothing! But maybe in the future we'll let you spend it on stuff like Windscribe Pro or new merch, like the FuttBux merch we just launched at: https://swag.windscribe.com/ But don't let me bore you, here's our CEO Geoff Pesos to explain FuttBux in his fireside chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc3DcKy9EIY And if you really want to dig into the details of FuttBux, including the technical brownpaper, check out this page: https://windscribe.com/futtbux

If you find a combination of settings that work for you, please post it below so we can gather them and recommend options for others to try. Mention your Country, ISP, the Protocol, Port, Circumvent Censorship config selected (if using WireGuard) and the VPN location you're connected to. For example: Iran Irancell UDP Port 22 Germany Frankfurt Castle

Windscribe pinned «We've been hard at work on the new anti-censorship measures in our apps which are implemented for almost everyone. The latest versions of our iOS and Android apps and the pre-release versions of the desktop apps have a new option to let you select WireGuard…»

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We've been hard at work on the new anti-censorship measures in our apps which are implemented for almost everyone. The latest versions of our iOS and Android apps and the pre-release versions of the desktop apps have a new option to let you select WireGuard configs that have shown to be helpful in connecting on various restricted networks. Required App Versions and Download Links Android v3.98+ Download latest version from Play Store or using the links below: Windscribe direct download - https://deploy.totallyacdn.com/android-app/3.98.2061/windscribe-mobile.apk Gofile alt download link - https://gofile.io/d/7WpuE7 iOS v3.9.13+ Download from App Store (unfortunately no sideload version) Windows (AMD64) v2.21.3 Windscribe direct download - https://deploy.totallyacdn.com/desktop-apps/2.21.3/Windscribe_2.21.3_guinea_pig_amd64.exe Gofile alt download link - https://gofile.io/d/QDTs1S MacOS v2.21.3 Windscribe direct download - https://deploy.totallyacdn.com/desktop-apps/2.21.3/Windscribe_2.21.3_guinea_pig_universal.dmg Gofile alt download link - https://gofile.io/d/gWuEAX Ubuntu/Debian (AMD64) v2.21.3 Windscribe direct download - https://deploy.totallyacdn.com/desktop-apps/2.21.3/windscribe_2.21.3_guinea_pig_amd64.deb Gofile alt download link - https://gofile.io/d/lOmEcc Fedora/CentOS (AMD64) v2.21.3 Windscribe direct download - https://deploy.totallyacdn.com/desktop-apps/2.21.3/windscribe_2.21.3_guinea_pig_amd64_fedora.rpm Gofile alt download link - https://gofile.io/d/gUETMM HOW TO USE 1. Manually enable the WireGuard protocol. Go to Preferences > Connection > Connection Mode. Set this to Manual. Set Protocol to WireGuard. 2. Enable Circumvent Censorship. Go to Preferences > Connection > Circumvent Censorship and make sure it's toggled ON. 3. Select one of the provided configs (A to G) under the Circumvent Censorship option. This will take some trial and error on your end. The results will vary based on your region and ISP. 4. Reconnect to the VPN from the main screen. The connection might take some time so leave it connecting for 20-30 seconds. 5. If the VPN connection is successful, check that you have internet connectivity. If the connection didn't work after 20-30 secs, go back to step 3 and select a different config from the list.

Before we release those, we just want to gather a couple more metrics on how our app is performing right now if you folks don't mind answering.

Thanks for your responses above. We are aware of the ongoing VPN connection issues in Iran and Russia and are working on solutions. As of right now, the best option we can offer is to paid users. Contact our support team via a ticket and ask for the anti-censorship config file for Amnezia WireGuard (include the device+OS and a couple of VPN locations you want to try) . This has shown to be quite successful in getting around government blocks and it is our highest priority to get this out into our native applications. Once it is in the app, it will not be limited to paid users, everyone will have access. Very soon we are going to start releasing a beta Android APK for people in Iran and Russia to test it and see how it performs. We're also working on a Windows build to get this out ASAP. After that iOS and Mac will also get their builds to test. We appreciate your patience as we work on this problem ❤️

I've had to unlink the previous discussion group (WindscribeHQchat) as it had permissions I can't change. The new linked group (WindscribeChat) should now allow you guys to reply with regular messages instead of only images/gifs. I hope. Okay it's working properly now with the new discussion group. You can now leave the old WindscribeHQchat group as we will not be monitoring it.