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> WARP, instead, is built for the average consumer. It’s built to ensure that your data is secured while it’s in transit. So the networks between you and the ap
by peterwwillis 7y ago
> WARP, instead, is built for the average consumer. It’s built to ensure that your data is secured while it’s in transit. So the networks between you and the applications you’re using can’t spy on you. It will help protect you from people sniffing your data while you’re at a local coffee shop. It will also help ensure that your ISP isn’t hoovering up data on your browsing patterns to sell to advertisers.
Most of those consumers aren't aware of any of that, so if you want them to use it, you'll have to pay for marketing to bring it to their attention. Is that the plan?
- lm28469 7y agoThey also states: > Before today, there were approximately two million people on the waitlist to try WARP. That demand blew us away. It also embarrassed us. The common refrain is consumers don’t care about their security and privacy, but the attention WARP got proved to us how wrong that assumption actually is.
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- asdkhadsj 7y agoI feel like that misses the point though. I'd be shocked (and happily wrong) if a large portion of those 2M users are none technical average people. If anything, all I would take from that number is that the tech crowd is perhaps larger than people give it credit for. But I highly doubt that waitlist expands highly beyond the tech crowd. Happy to be wrong, though :)
- e12e 7y agoI'm not sure why I'd trust cloudflare (a company who's business it is to know all about traffic flows and usage patterns) more than a traditional back bone provider?