Windscribe's new feature R.O.B.E.R.T (server side malware and ad-blocking)

Evjl's Rain

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it depends on the locations. When I was in Hungary, Windscribe slowed down my internet from 5Mb/s to <1MB/s, unbearably slow even disconnected, with many servers, and I was always struggling to test malwares
after a year without using, it improved but still not as fast as the others
now I live in Asia. The connection is **** by default so I don't notice too much slowdown with windscribe => good
I will try this ROBERT
 

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Windscribe blocks the connection, but without clearly warning, why the URL is blocked (malicious, phishing) like other web-filters...

URL can't be reached
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Windscribe disabled, EXE gets downloaded:
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Result:
Test with 12 live vxvault links -> windscribe blocked 1 (google safe browsing blocked all)
Tested with 15 new links -> blocked nothing

=> not a good start. Hope they improve their database
 

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Windscribe blocks the connection, but without clearly warning, why the URL is blocked (malicious, phishing) like other web-filters...
2 another examples,

Windscribe enabled, both URL can't be reached (URL seems to be blocked by Windscribe)

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Windscribe disabled, both URL are reachable, but EXE are blocked by Google Safe Browsing:

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Is it me or normal? Windscribe take a very long time to establish the connection since the release of ROBERT. Before the release of ROBERT, I would get the connection establish very quick, but now I have to wait like more than 10 seconds.
 
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Is it me or normal? Windscribe take a very long time to establish the connection since the release of ROBERT. Before the release of ROBERT, I would get the connection establish very quick, but now I have to wait like more than 10 seconds.

see post number 5 about ads and trackers.
 
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SumTingWong

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Yes I know. post number 5 states that if you have trackers and adds enabled it will slow down your connection.

I don't understand? It is for blocking, and not interfering with the speed, so how come it will slow down my connection to the VPN server with that option enable?
 

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2 another examples,

Windscribe enabled, both URL can't be reached (URL seems to be blocked by Windscribe)

View attachment 201734View attachment 201736
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Windscribe disabled, both URL are reachable, but EXE are blocked by Google Safe Browsing:

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This is to be expected. Whole blocking works on DNS level (in case you don't use Windscribe's browser extension).
They are already working on V2 of ROBERT - it should have option to whitelist websites for your own use :)
 

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