That's it, I'm leaving Windscribe, VPN has too many SSL connection problems

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That’s it, I’m leaving Windscribe, VPN has too many SSL connection problems

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We explained the cause of the problem to you, and fixed it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windscribe/comments/16mhlvv/comment/k1jv9dv/

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I’ve been having a lot of the same issues lately. I’ve just been resetting my network adapter and it seems to fix it but my patience is wearing thin.

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I hear you. I am almost out of patience too. I resolve it by choosing a different server, but it is super annoying to have to do that so frequently. I mostly use the Seattle servers as I am in Northwestern USA.

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You have some type of cert issue happening this isn’t related to Windscribe.

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I’m getting this constantly and even every single Google search asks me for a reCAPTCHA now. I have no idea whether Windscribe can do anything about it, or whether they even care enough to, but the service is getting unusable, at least on the UK servers.

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Sounds like you’ve made up your mind.

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Damn, I’ve never had this issue. Bye bye lol

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Have you tried disabling “Unlock Streaming” on the Windscribe My Account page?

Also, Firefox causes this. You need to set security.tls.version.min to 2. Does it on the VPN and off the VPN for me.

https://kb.mozillazine.org/Security.tls.version.*

However, that website’s certificate is tls 1.3.

Firefox has been a massive issue at being overly secure. Seems like everyday I’m disabling another one of their hidden security settings just to load websites.

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After previously I reported here on this subreddit and submitting a ticket to support about the constant SSL errors I’m getting, nothing has been resolved and the errors continue.

I did everything they asked me to do:

  • Update to latest version 2.7.10
  • Change browsers
  • Clear cache
  • Reboot

Nothing has fixed these issues, issues that just started to appear recently, so something tells me there’s something wrong with Windscribe servers.

As a developer this becomes a big problem as I’m finding constant errors on multiple .io, .dev, .org websites, sometimes changing Windscribe servers (something I shouldn’t be doing) fixes the issue but the problem keeps coming back.

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hmm works for me on the German windscribe location.

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Do you have Adguard client , Kaspersky ( with SSL scanning, AVG , Avast , bitdefender or norton with SSL / Encrypted scanning enabled ? is this firefox ?

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Try to report the servers that get blocked to windscribe.

If they are aws backed… Amazon really likes to block vpn servers this way.

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It’s Windscribe, I switched VPN provider and my problem got fixed.

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Unlock Streaming is active, and no, I shouldn’t be touching Firefox settings for this to work. When I disconnect from Windscribe everything works fine, and I’ve tried other VPNs and this doesn’t happen.

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I can also vouch that Firefox has become a problem and I was thinking about not using it at all anymore. I have been switching to Brave when sites I frequent won’t work on Firefox but it’s happening so much I might stop using FF altogether.

Firefox has also been putting out a lot of updates the last four months or so. Sometimes it fixes the problem I’m having sometimes no.

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Connecting literally to any other server locations would have fixed the issue.

It appears Amazon is blocking that specific one for some reason, while ALL others work fine.

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As a network tech, for a developer, you really don’t understand how vpns work do you?

I can’t wait to see you post on another vpns sub when this happens on that too… :joy:

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I don’t have anything of that enabled or running. That’s Chrome and Edge.

Again: when I turn the VPN off it works, when I turn it on it doesn’t.

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I rarely have speed issues with Windscribe. Been using them for 9 years or something long like that lol
Most issues are caused by user error based in my experience.

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Hopefully it’s just the Unlock Streaming setting.

Chrome never has SSL problems for me but Firefox always did. I changed some of the security.tls and security.ssl settings and it’s been fine since.

Unrelated to the VPN; A few different annoyances Firefox brought for me were:

OCSP.require, enable_ocsp_must_staple, enable_stapling, require_safe_negotation, treat_unsafe_negotiation_as_broken and tls.version.fallback-limit, security.tls.version.min

All of those are very important settings that should remain default but they annoyed me when using some shady websites I frequent.