But if you’re a journalist or a political dissident in a country where that’s very dangerous, then it should add a valuable extra layer of protection. Turn this on and the app creates huge amounts of fake traffic, making it far more difficult for anyone to pick out your real internet activity.ĭecoy Mode generates a lot of data, potentially many gigabytes per hour, so this really isn’t a feature for the average user.

The Android app has gained ‘Decoy Mode’, a unique privacy feature which protects against traffic correlation attacks (a method of identifying VPN users by monitoring the amount and timing of data uploads and downloads). This has security and privacy benefits as data can’t be left on the server for a lengthy period of time (it disappears whenever the server is rebooted), and the company also told us it brings significant speed benefits. The big news since our last review is Windscribe’s move to RAM disk-based servers, where data is stored in server memory rather than on hard drives. The Android app has a new ‘Decoy Mode’ which is an interesting privacy feature (Image credit: Windscribe) What’s new?

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