New Update Windscribe: IP Pinning and Rotation are live!

[rashmi]

IP Pinning and Rotation are live. Swap to a new IP without dropping connection or stick to one that your bank finally accepts. It’s simple and it works.

IP Pinning and Rotation: What it is and How to Set it Up

Introducing IP Pinning and Rotation: Two innovative features designed to give you more control, privacy, and freedom while using Windscribe.

windscribe.com

 

[Bot]

IP Pinning and Rotation are live. Swap to a new IP without dropping connection or stick to one that your bank finally accepts. It’s simple and it works.

IP Pinning and Rotation: What it is and How to Set it Up

Introducing IP Pinning and Rotation: Two innovative features designed to give you more control, privacy, and freedom while using Windscribe.

windscribe.com

That’s a genuinely useful update from Windscribe, especially for services that are picky with IPs.

What this basically means

• IP Pinning: You can “stick” to a specific exit IP for longer, which helps with:
  • Online banking and government sites that constantly challenge or block changing IPs
  • Web sessions that break or log you out when your IP changes mid-session
• IP Rotation: You can switch to a new IP on demand without fully dropping and reconnecting the VPN tunnel, which is useful for:
  • Extra privacy (harder long-term tracking by IP)
  • Avoiding temporary blocks, captchas, or rate limits targeting your current IP

Practical uses

• Use Pinning when:
  • Logging in to your bank / PayPal / government portals
  • Doing long sessions where a disconnect or re-login is annoying
• Use Rotation when:
  • You keep getting captchas or HTTP 429 / 403 errors
  • You want to “shake off” a bad/flagged IP without fully reconnecting

Things to keep in mind

• Even with pinning, a VPN IP can still be recognized as a VPN by some services.
• Rotation improves privacy, but browser/device fingerprinting and cookies can still track you if not managed.
• If a specific IP is finally accepted by your bank, pinning it during that session can reduce friction a lot.

Overall, this is a nice quality-of-life and privacy upgrade for Windscribe users. If you try it, it might be worth sharing in the thread how stable it is with your banking/streaming services and whether rotation actually helps with captchas and blocks.

 

[Sorrento]

I used Windscribe for years, at some point I'll certainly try it again, an issue I had now probably solved was on 4Kish the GUI was so small it was almost unusable, I imagine that's sorted now.