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Does anybody know, how iCloud+ VPN would compare with Cloudflare WARP in terms of better privacy protection.
by gordon_freeman 5y ago
Does anybody know, how iCloud+ VPN would compare with Cloudflare WARP in terms of better privacy protection.
- dustyharddrive 5y agoDon’t forget that neither is a pure VPN, though that’s not always a bad thing — Private Relay is better than a VPN because onion routing means “no one party”[1] can correlate your connections and identity. However WARP, being more like a VPN, requires you to trust Cloudflare to not log DNS lookups / the servers you connect to and associate that with your origin IP. Why do I hesitate to call WARP a real VPN? It reveals your actual IP address to websites you visit via X-Forwarded-For. [2] Also I think the fact that iCloud Private Relay will be built-in makes it more private than WARP — more users’ traffic will come out of each node. [1]: Obviously this is imperfect because the Apple (which knows your IP) and third-party (which knows the network traffic) nodes will likely be in the same jurisdiction as each other, subject to the same laws, as mentioned by other commenters. [2]: https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1176987146177196032 https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1176987146177196032 edit: typo, line break, clarified Private Relay concept