Winston privacy is simply brilliant Winston is simply brilliant. Sure, there’s lots of manual ways to go about securing your privacy online, but those are time consuming and tedious. Winston is a plug and play, set it and forget it, type of setup that works really well. It’s about time us normals had a tool to combats the privacy invading behemoths like Facebook and Google.

I've tried VPN's that really just… 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!!!

Winston does exactly what it says Winston does exactly what it says it does—filters out trackers and protects your privacy. Using the dashboard, I’ve been able to track my network usage in real-time and monitor what is causing high traffic, all while seeing the results of the tracking filters. I can’t recommend it highly enough to anyone who is concerned about their online privacy, but doesn’t have the technical knowledge to tweak their routers etc. to achieve the same results.

It's worth getting the Winston! After a bumpy start (the Winston device wouldn't connect to the internet and after several different suggestions from their website, still wouldn't connect) and a couple of responses from the support department, we were able to connect and figure out the problem. I don't know who I talked to but he was friendly, patient and most important, knowledgeable about the product. He suggested a setup not mentioned on their troubleshooting web page that worked. I have had it running since Monday May 3, 2021 and have been very surprised at how much crap is tracking me and my family: over 17,000 threats blocked and almost a gig of data saved. There's a LOT less ads too. That's in three days! I don't use any VPNs just because you're not able to protect anymore than the computer it's installed on. Winston solves that problem. I installed the app on my phone that protects it as well, which it does. The only thing that I thought it was supposed to do is disconnect when I'm using my home wifi network and reconnect when I'm outside of it. It stays connected when I'm using my wifi network. It seems to work so that all that really matters. I just hope that the Winston device lasts for years.

Promising start: sadly, now a waste of time & money! I was a fairly early adopter of Winston, waited patiently for a much delayed UK delivery and got it all working once it had finally arrived. Sadly it looks as though the company has gone bust and the product won't be supported after July 2021. This is the final section of an email received from them today: "Unfortunately, we were unable to generate sufficient demand with consumers to support a hardware business and have no choice but to discontinue the Winston Privacy service. This was a difficult decision to make as many of invested years of our lives in this mission. We did - and still do - feel passionately that everyone should have the ability to make meaningful choices about their family's privacy. A final firmware update (1.5.14) will be pushed in late June/July which will enable devices to run without requiring a subscription. Please note that devices must be connected to the internet during this time period to receive this update. Units which have been updated should continue to operate normally through the end of the year though support will no longer be offered. Devices may continue to operate beyond the end of 2021, however the security certificate for the domain api.winstonprivacy.com will eventually expire and will need to be manually whitelisted in your browser. We encourage you to support businesses that put their users' privacy first. A few of the companies we recommend include: * DuckDuckGo * ProtonMail * Signal * Brave Thank you for your support throughout the years. The Winston Privacy Team"