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Warp, Cloudflare's Free VPN, Is Now Publicly Available for iOS and Android
- papermachete 7y agoCloudflare controls a great portion of the web. How useful is hiding from websites with this VPN?
- jgrahamc 7y agoWarp isn't designed to hide you from websites you visit. It's designed to secure the connection from your device. https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/
- papermachete 7y agoI'm under the impression a lot of people fall for the marketing and use VPNs for privacy.
- ridgewell 7y agoStill protects you from hijacking at public wifi hotspots. Doesn't let you watch geolocked content (US Netflix), and probably doesn't let you torrent either.
- papermachete 7y agoIs it better than Tor in your opinion?
- robjan 7y agoIn terms of privacy? Definitely not. With Tor, it's extremely hard to trace a packet from end to end but in this case there is a high chance that Cloudflare is both your VPN provider and the CDN for the site you are visiting meaning they could theoretically know exactly who is looking at what.
- nloomans 7y agoThe app has a permanent notification stating 'Your Internet is now private.' while using warp. That seems very misleading to the end user in my opinion.
- amatecha 7y agoIs that an affiliate link? (the "pWpA" after the domain in the URL) But more importantly, is it just me or does using a free VPN seem like a super risky idea? haha
- masklinn 7y ago> Is that an affiliate link? (the "pWpA" after the domain in the URL) Looks to be yes. It redirects to https://one.one.one.one/ref?referrer=a029b85e-cfc8-47f1-8e83-XXXXXXXXXXXX https://one.one.one.one/ref?referrer=a029b85e-cfc8-47f1-8e83... then https://one.one.one.one/ https://one.one.one.one/
- tumetab1 7y agoIt is. Confirmed by generating a link on the app which gives credit and it's the same format.
- dzhiurgis 7y agoThread without affiliate link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21067602 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21067602
- guan 7y agoI tried it, and it appears to be freemium. The basic level is WARP, and then there’s WARP+ which costs $4.99/month. The difference isn’t entirely clear though. It says that WARP+ will “route your internet requests to avoid Internet traffic jams.”
- CHsurfer 7y agoI signed up some months ago and am using the DNS service on my iphone, but is says that I am #192604 on the WARP waitlist and that they will let me know when it's ready.
- jgrahamc 7y agoTry updating the app.
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- ridgewell 7y agoWhat's the underlying technology? WireGuard (via BoringTun)? I see there's two tiers, Warp and Warp+. Supposedly Warp+ has better/optimal routing that lets you avoid local ISP congestion. It's $7 CAD/month. This would be pretty cool on desktop for gaming, etc.
- jgrahamc 7y agoIn the original blog https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/ "We also knew it was critical that we ensure Warp doesn’t meaningfully increase your battery usage. We built Warp around WireGuard, a modern, efficient VPN protocol that is much more efficient than legacy VPN protocols." And Warp is why we wrote BoringTun: https://blog.cloudflare.com/boringtun-userspace-wireguard-rust/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/boringtun-userspace-wireguard-ru...
- pnako 7y agoCloudflare is doing a great job improving privacy and security on the Internet. Not only they helped websites move to HTTPS, now they also do that on the client side too! Soon, 99% of the traffic on the Internet will be encrypted. Except, of course, for the traffic that goes through Cloudflare data centers, but that's a small price to pay for privacy and security. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
- papermachete 7y agoGosh I hope this is sarcasm.
- yug 7y agoEating my iphone's battery like crazy