Seriously cool of you guys. Just signed up. To clarify, it renews every year at this rate?
I bet the plan would last until nobody on earth is named Valdimir Putin.
Subscribed as well. My payment went through but after the payment it said something about fraudulent activity. Still got pro, but come on… you guys need to fix the payment solution. This was the first time I was able to do it from desktop. Had to pay from Google other times.
What about changing the payment method, In case my card is about to expire, I believe you cannot do that currently without canceling the subscription.
Incredible, how easy people are to be placated with some oh-we-are-so-humane-pr-statement. All that “we didn’t mean lifetime lifetime” is even more aggravating. The only joke here is company I’m supposed to trust with my privacy with doing this kind of stunts. Fun thing is I had never actually used more, than 2 gb of my 50 gb plan, but it’s about basic honesty. Not even going into trying to create confusion with mixing some recent “relief plans” with legacy plans from years ago and trying to save face with cynically jumping on anti-war sentiment. Disgusting.
Reducing the amount of free things we give away is an exceptionally far cry from killing all user trust
Because your PR statement says so? No, it’s not, sorry.
Its not showing as 10$ on website, anyone having same problem?
Is it $10 per year, every year, or just the single year?
That came out of the blue but good on ya guys.
An interesting read as usual too.
I’m in for 10$. Thank you, WS! I also hope you make it possible to change payment methods in the future. Or at least renew with a new card upon expiration.
Lifetime implies the companies lifetime.
How can I signup for the pro plan If your just gonna change your mind again?
EDIT: I’ll boil this outspoken mini-rant to the basics to clarify for the casual reader, becaude admittedly it is a lot of text.
- Windscribe is still ignoring the original understanding of ‘lifetime’ and going back on their word for no good nor stated reason.
- They *can* uphold their word, they can afford it.
- Windscribe still plays on technicisms and jokes, and there are flaws to point out on the logic and arguments provided.
- A tendency to go back on previous statements, being selectively-flexible on them if not contractually-binding, and behaviours of avoidance in order to serve their interests at the cost of the user, are reasonable and logical reasons to lose trust on an entity.
- The party in a greater position of actionable power has the responsibility of maintaining the other’s trust, *especially if safeguarding something of value*, which is private and sensitive information from the end user. There are precedents on the industry of VPN companies abusing trust and profiting off additional and non-disclosed utilization of this data at the cost of the customer’s interests.__________________________
Windscribe is looking to increase profits, and the way in which they approached the cancellation of the 50/60gb promos reflects that.
It could be understood that the team wasn’t internally aware of this having been advertised as lifetime… if a lot of records and lifetime promo codes didn’t precede the relief codes by such a timeframe and having been onset from the get-go as the management changed, as implied by the fact ‘none on the team knew’, enough time and significant size, especially as would come up during evaluation and investigation of this and other cost-saving/profit-increasing initiatives, as to warrant finding out the reasons for them.
I’ll direct you to the official Windscribe infopage about its ownership: https://windscribe.com/knowledge-base/articles/who-owns-windscribe
Now, this does claim that the three founders are still quite active and involved on the company, so it would stand to reason that the team *would* have a source to ask to during evaluation for this enactment, and who best than the people that gave the code? It doesn’t add up, the company – The collective acting entity – knew (or the parts that matter, making this decision.
Let’s make no mistake here, we both know that if you could have gotten away with it without damaging the public image, you would have. The current proceeding is doing good damage control in that regard, while also attempting its best to take the minimum amount of accountability required for that, stretching the perceived ‘loses of potential income’ a bit farther into the future, while being on-brand with a joke-and-political-statement combo of playing around with the words and promise we were provided of a lifetime gift, making it the lifetime of a polemical political figure, which *still* goes against the spirit of the initial promise.
Given this, would it really be a stretch, irrational, to lose trust, seeing this behaviour from Windscribe? Would it be presumptuous to dare feel betrayed at seeing an agreement broken in clearly-mutually-understood spirit as to what ‘lifetime’ entails, and seeing the responsible party wave it off and a few extra years with a joke? It’s still the breach of a promise, and thus, of trust. I barely use 3GB per month, so rest assured, *it’s not about the money, it’s about the message*.
Congratulations, Windscribe, you still provide an excellent product, but your ‘quirky and approachable image’ in addition to the business decisions have reached the par of a soulless company centered only on profit, ringing hollow, actioned only by lash-back and how much you can get away with, no sincere and properly acknowledging approach.
“Big Gigs Are Back!”
So that was a f*ing lie… As usual, my data reseted to 60gb a few days ago but after using up 10 GB, it mysteriously jumped straight up to 0gb x)
Guess it was too good to be true :v
In common usage, “free lifetime subscription” means free for the lifetime of the subscriber. Windscribe now informs us, certainly not, we meant the lifetime of Putin though we did not say so earlier. To me, questions and doubts arise. What other surprises may Windscribe’s rhetoric conceal?
Windscribe support wrote:
“So, if you currently have the 50GB or 60GB plan, or if you had it but got caught in the first wave of downgrades, you will get to keep it until Valdimir Putin has passed away.”
Who is Valdimir Putin?
Maybe you meant Vladimir Putin?
Or is this a sneaky attempt at pinning the new offer on the lifetime of some random guy named Valdimir?
I think we should be told 
Out of curiosity, I know in the email sent there was a joke about hiring lawyers from Suits but were actual lawyers consulted? It just seems interesting to be able to specify what “lifetime” means 7 years after the term was used. I don’t think I’ve seen a situation like that come up.
Is Pro 100% Unlimited data?
Like I have 50gig now, which I’ve only gone through once ever, but this offer is good enough for me to stump up.
Just confused because the email says I lose my BIG DATA… but if pro is unlimited I don’t lose 50gig, I gain unlimited, right*?
* ^Just ^with ^the ^caveat ^of ^-$10 ^a ^year, ^and ^I ^can ^NEVER ^go ^back ^to ^free/50gig.
$10/year
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So when he gets ‘Putin’ a coffin the deal is over 
Hi, I used to have the 50gb unlimited voucher from around 2020, I don’t know if I qualify for this. When I click on the link, I can apply the BESTEVER voucher, but the prices don’t change, still at around 69$ per year. Help?