Windscribe VPN - Privacy & Ad Block Suite
#119 of 19,279 by installs on Edge · #93 of 8,290 in Productivity
First seen by this census 09/02/2026 — the store does not publish a creation date
Last updated 09/04/2026
Tracked since 09/02/2026
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Category: Productivity
Description
Windscribe helps you mask your physical location, circumvent censorship, and block ads and trackers on websites you use every day
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Growth
Change in installs, scaled to each window from the real gap between crawls. This store refreshes its install counts only occasionally, so these figures usually read 0 even for a listing that is growing - the weekly change in ratings under Rating above is the better signal here. A window needs a full period of history before it reports anything.
| Per | Growth | Growth % | Actual change | Measured over |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| day | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 1.1 days |
| week | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 7.5 days |
| month | Not enough history yet | |||
| year | Not enough history yet | |||
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Permissions
Access level: Extensive — Reaches every website you visit, and holds a powerful capability as well.
- Reads and changes your data on all websites
- View, enable, or disable your other installed extensions
- View and change your browser's privacy and security settings
- Control how your browser connects to the internet, including routing traffic through other servers
- See the web requests your browser makes, including URLs you visit
- Answer login prompts from websites and proxies on your behalf
- If you allow it: change which websites may use your camera, microphone, location, cookies and more
Ad blockers, password managers and VPNs need this kind of access to do their job. This describes what the extension can reach, not how it behaves.
Manifest V3
Reads and changes your data on all websites ⚠
- activeTab — See the page you're currently viewing, only when you click the extension
- alarms — Schedule its code to run at a later time
- contextMenus — Add items to your right-click menu
- declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess — Block or modify web requests, with access to the content of matched sites
- management ⚠ — View, enable, or disable your other installed extensions
- notifications — Show you desktop notifications
- offscreen — Run a hidden page to do background work, such as playing audio or reading documents
- privacy ⚠ — View and change your browser's privacy and security settings
- proxy ⚠ — Control how your browser connects to the internet, including routing traffic through other servers
- scripting — Run scripts on web pages you visit
- storage — Save its own settings and data locally
- tabs — See your open tabs and the pages you're on
- unlimitedStorage — Save an unlimited amount of its own data locally
- webRequest ⚠ — See the web requests your browser makes, including URLs you visit
- webRequestAuthProvider ⚠ — Answer login prompts from websites and proxies on your behalf
Optional permissions
- contentSettings ⚠ — Change which websites may use your camera, microphone, location, cookies and more
Version history
| Version | First observed |
|---|---|
| 4.3.0 | 09/10/2026 |
| 4.2.9 | 09/05/2026 |