> Yes, granted, Apple could always extract (and to some extent probably is) your history directly via OS hooks, but the "Private" relay gives them a completely

> Yes, granted, Apple could always extract (and to some extent probably is) your history directly via OS hooks, but the "Private" relay gives them a completely opaque off-device way to centrally track what everyone is visiting Err, no it doesn't - that's the whole point of the way it's engineered. All Apple sees is your IP address with none of the request details, and your IP is obscured before being sent to the second relay (Cloudflare, fastly, etc) , who only see the request detail with no origin/requestor information. [1] https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/iCloud_Private_Relay_Overview_Dec2021.PDF https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/iCloud_Private_Relay_Over...