Protecting Your Privacy
Winston scrambles your IP address by randomly routing every requested domain to a new exit point usually every 10 minutes, depending on your activity. This ...
Wed, 11 Dec, 2019 at 4:34 PM
Yes. Winston’s AI cookie handling modifies, and blocks suspicious cookies third-party, while letting through the first-party cookies that enable websites to...
Wed, 11 Dec, 2019 at 4:37 PM
While Winston isn’t specifically a cyber security device, it does add two strong defenses to a home network: First, Winston helps prevent hacking of you...
Fri, 18 Sep, 2020 at 4:18 PM
Yes, Winston blocks anything unnecessary for the proper operation of the particular device. For example, we do allow Windows PCs to send a DNS request to NC...
Thu, 12 Dec, 2019 at 9:27 AM
Your ISP can possibly see that you made a request to Cloudflare, but they won't know what's in the request. For any traffic that is not routed thr...
Thu, 12 Dec, 2019 at 9:29 AM
There is basically no anti-tracking protection in Chrome and they are likely to disable most ad blockers / anti-tracking extensions when Manifest v3 comes o...
Thu, 12 Dec, 2019 at 11:45 AM
Yes. Winston's browser extension (while connected to your blocks the most sophisticated fingerprinting techniques, which exploit manufacturing differe...
Thu, 12 Dec, 2019 at 9:30 AM
All of Winston's capabilities work with HTTPS traffic. We don't use Man In The Middle (MITM). Instead, the application layer anti-tracking def...
Thu, 12 Dec, 2019 at 9:31 AM
Regarding the microphone on your TV, if the TV is connected to the Winston network, Winston will prevent most data captured from the microphone from going t...
Mon, 2 Dec, 2019 at 5:21 PM