A Statement From Windscribe About Our CEO's Personal Donations
You may have heard in recent days that Mullvad's co-founder and co-owner, Daniel Berntsson, donated ~$500,000 of his personal money to the controversial populist Örebro Party in Sweden.
While Mullvad's representatives say that this donation does not represent the values of the brand, it's hard to detach the co-owner of the company from the company itself. This is why we at Windscribe would like to get ahead of any potential public outcry about us by disclosing our CEO's personal donations as well.
It would be hypocritical for us to criticize Daniel Berntsson's donations when our CEO, Yegor Sak, has also made monetary donations to organizations supporting causes he believes in. More importantly, we want to be transparent with our users because without context, the donations may be seen as supporting a specific side or specific opinions.
Let us make one thing clear: we are not here to lie. Yes, our CEO has made donations to a specific side, but today we want to come clean and make things right.
Windscribe's CEO Yegor Sak is a proud owner of a corgi named Snoop. He loves his dog and because of that, has personally donated money to the Save Our Scruff dog rescue here in Toronto. But we understand that this can cause division within our userbase, as many will see a bias towards dogs, while cats get no love. So today, we are making one thing clear - we support cats as well, and Yegor has personally donated to the local Annex Cat Rescue organization to support their work.
We understand that this may be shocking information to some of you, and hope that you can forgive the lack of transparency until now. The Windscribe brand itself does not endorse any particular side in the dogs versus cats debate, and the opinions and donations are exclusively a reflection of Yegor's personal beliefs. Our service and applications are not affected by these donations. They remain secure and dedicated to providing our users with the best VPN on the market.
Thank you,
Windscribe Team
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Signal isn't headquartered in Canada so they can just shut off Canadian servers, but our HQ is. We pay an ungodly amount of taxes to this corrupt government, and in return they want to destroy the entire essence of our service to basically spy on its own citizens.
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YouTube is now allowing viewers to band together in stream chats to block ads from playing
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The Stop Killing Games movement has officially backed the proposed California bill focused on protecting players when online games are shut down.
> Publishers must provide an offline mode or a way to keep the game playable after server shutdown.
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This proposal follows growing concerns over games becoming completely inaccessible once support ends, especially after shutdowns like The Crew.
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So we didn't get the server back yet, but the police came back and re-arranged the rest of the rack.
While that looks tasty, that doesn't help us run VPN servers in Netherlands....
Due to the massive wave of backlash, Discord is postponing its global age verification until the second half of 2026.
There's discussion of future features like:
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