- Windscribe now accepts cash payments for its 1-year Pro subscription
- Leaving no digital footprint, it offers users total financial anonymity
- Windscribe still strongly advises most users to stick to digital methods
When you’re considering purchasing the best VPN on the market, you’ll typically expect a quick, all-digital transaction involving a credit card, PayPal, or perhaps cryptocurrency. What you probably don’t expect is the ability to put dollar bills in an envelope and send them across the world.
However, this is exactly what Windscribe has just introduced. The popular Canadian provider has rolled out a new feature allowing users to pay for their Virtual Private Network entirely with physical money.
According to the According to the provider’s announcement, the system is designed strictly for those who want absolute financial anonymity.
“Cash avoids the usual payment journey,” the company explained. “No card number. No PayPal account. No App Store subscription. No bank statement politely documenting that you purchased privacy and immediately created a receipt for it.”
However, in classic sarcastic Windscribe fashion, the vendor is aggressively trying to dissuade most people from using it.
A “clumsy analog side quest”
Sending money through the mail may seem like a throwback to a bygone era, but Windscribe says, “It’s real, official, and somehow still a thing in the year of our lord.”
By physically sending money, users completely cut out the cashier middleman. Your local bank or payment processor will not have any data recording your purchase of a privacy tool. In highly restrictive regions where purchasing a VPN can hurt your bank account, this analog approach can be a crucial lifeline.
By launching this, Windscribe joins a very small, exclusive club of privacy-focused vendors. Competitors like Mullvad has long accepted cash payments, including allowing users to send physical money to their Swedish headquarters. Proton VPN also allows users to send bills by mail to avoid the digital banking network.
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But while the privacy benefits are real, Windscribe doesn’t address the major downsides.
“Before you do this, this is the slowest and riskiest payment method,” warns the company’s official billing page. The provider notes that envelopes can be “lost, delayed, damaged, stolen, or eaten by anyone living inside the postal system.” Because cash payments are inherently impossible to track, the company cannot credit an account if the money goes missing in transit.
As a result, Windscribe is explicitly asking its general user base to stick to digital options.
“If this seems stupid to you, congratulations, your pattern recognition works,” the company said. “We added the available option because privacy sometimes requires tricky analog side quests, not because we think everyone should start feeding paper money into the postal system.”
Strict Limits on Paper Money
If you really need a non-digital way to purchase your VPN and are willing to brave the postal service, there are strict rules on what your paper money can buy.
Cash payments are limited to 1 year Windscribe Pro subscriptionwhich currently costs $69 USD. You cannot use cash to purchase custom plans, rolling monthly subscriptions, or lifetime subscriptions.
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Finally, any transaction carried out in this way is totally non-refundable. If you send money, your only hope is that it arrives safely and without interception.
For the average internet user wanting to browse safely, creating an account with a standard card or crypto wallet is a much safer and faster way to protect your identity online. But for that small subset of users whose threat model demands complete detachment from the banking system, Windscribe is ready to receive your envelopes.
