Winston PrivacyReviews of winstonprivacy.com

Performed so well that within the same week I bought a 2nd Winston Privacy device for an additional network (separate home where Boomer parent lives). How do I know the advertising blocks are working? A: Big, Beautiful, Blank squares where advertisements used to splash and interfere with my reading of NYTimes, WashPost, others. Apple News app went from a dizzying array of advertisements to No Ads. This ad prevention has held steady for a month now - excellent results. The other critical component of maintaining privacy is running unbeknownst to me as I go about my regular (now unimpeded) use of iOS and Windows10 devices. This component is mixing my data with others in the mesh network. I don't have to do anything. Periodically, because it is cool and interesting, I peek into the provided dashboard to see summarized results of what is happening under the hood. My work from home (WFH) setup required no change - corporate VPN client with corporate issued Windows10 laptop and all Cloud (Azure/AWS/Oracle) services continue to work flawlessly without intervention.

This is not my first attempt at finding a product to protect my private data, but it is the first I have been able to set up and use. It has been so easy to set up and to get it working, it makes you wonder why others require a full time systems engineer? Once working, you can learn how to deploy it deeper and protect even more. One of the rare occasions I can say the product is better than originally advertised. My only niggle is it occasionally blocks a page from within my browser, but at least it seems to understand that if I reload it a second time, it lands the page. It does, however, work at speed and does not seem to interfere with browsing performance.

Believe me, when you see how much information is not being sent and how much faster your Internet is, you will be very happy. Also knowing that a lot of Snooping, Spying and just bandwidth used, just stops and makes a much better experience on the Web.

This whole thing was so easy to set up and it does what is required blocks people and sites that have no reason to be watching you. Great product and really happy to have bought into it.

Winston is easy to install in your system and has an easy method to “White List” specific web sites for a specific computer if there is a need to not block something in order for it to allow communication to the site. Excellent device!

I've tried VPN's that really just slowed your internet connection while supposedly protecting your identity. After researching Winston, I took the plunge into a realistic enhancement to surfing the WWW while being protected. Easy to setup and easy to use while maintaining the speed you pay for from your ISP . I'll never go back to using VPN's. Winston is the BEST!!!

Count me a raving fan of Winston Privacy. In this era of work from home, we have as many as five of us online at one time. A hardware based solution protects all users with no fuss without the social overhead of making sure everyone is practicing good internet hygiene. The device is super-simple to set up. If you need help, the company is responsive and helpful. A great product and a great user experience. 100% recommend and can't imagine not having one.

I previously used a VPN service until discovering that VPN's don't block trackers and still leak data to web sites and web services. Stripping out the web beacons, location data and details from aggregators is my favorite feature. It's stunning to see the number of trackers blocked through the Winston dashboard. Since starting to use Winston, I've had several issues with IOT devices and got them all resolved very quickly through support tickets. Very helpful support team.