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Only works with Safari on macOS, which means I’ll never use it there. And I wound up turning it off on iOS because it made my life more annoying - go into the s

Only works with Safari on macOS, which means I’ll never use it there. And I wound up turning it off on iOS because it made my life more annoying - go into the subway and try to connect to the free MTA WiFi? Alert! Your browsing is unprotected. …plus I found I would sporadically get connection issues that I resolved by turning it off. It’s a bummer because I would like to use it, and it being bundled with iCloud is nice.

currysausage 4y ago
No Google suggestions for me in iOS Safari when using Private Relay.
dijit 4y ago
> go into the subway and try to connect to the free MTA WiFi? Alert! Your browsing is unprotected. I haven't used it myself, but it seems reasonable to inform laymen that browsing to a captive portal system will be unprotected. I'm not sure how eggregious the error actually is. > …plus I found I would sporadically get connection issues that I resolved by turning it off. Not defending Apple in particular, but connectivity will decrease with every extra hop you make in your connection; you'll notice this when browsing the internet with tor (or, heaven forbid trying to use IRC over tor). it makes sense that you would have more connectivity issues when using any kind of proxy; and it would get worse with every extra layer of proxy.
- lelandfe 4y ago
  Not sure what “connectivity will decrease” means in practice, but I’d see problems like pages refusing to load over multiple refreshes, texts not sending, or iCloud data (messages, photos, etc) simply not updating until I switched the service off. I’m not as convinced as you that these problems are inherent to the service, and I’m holding out hope for what Private Relay looks like when it emerges from beta. > I'm not sure how eggregious the error actually is Not egregious - annoying. Unusual for Apple. I don’t want to use a service that spits alerts at me as I walk around the city.
ec109685 4y ago
The connection issues don’t happen anymore. It was annoying before where things would just hang and then turning off and on would fix it. I haven’t seen that in months, so they must have fixed the issue.
- lelandfe 4y ago
  Nice! I'll give it another shot.

currysausage 4y ago

No Google suggestions for me in iOS Safari when using Private Relay.

dijit 4y ago

> go into the subway and try to connect to the free MTA WiFi? Alert! Your browsing is unprotected. I haven't used it myself, but it seems reasonable to inform laymen that browsing to a captive portal system will be unprotected. I'm not sure how eggregious the error actually is. > …plus I found I would sporadically get connection issues that I resolved by turning it off. Not defending Apple in particular, but connectivity will decrease with every extra hop you make in your connection; you'll notice this when browsing the internet with tor (or, heaven forbid trying to use IRC over tor). it makes sense that you would have more connectivity issues when using any kind of proxy; and it would get worse with every extra layer of proxy.

lelandfe 4y ago
Not sure what “connectivity will decrease” means in practice, but I’d see problems like pages refusing to load over multiple refreshes, texts not sending, or iCloud data (messages, photos, etc) simply not updating until I switched the service off. I’m not as convinced as you that these problems are inherent to the service, and I’m holding out hope for what Private Relay looks like when it emerges from beta. > I'm not sure how eggregious the error actually is Not egregious - annoying. Unusual for Apple. I don’t want to use a service that spits alerts at me as I walk around the city.

ec109685 4y ago

The connection issues don’t happen anymore. It was annoying before where things would just hang and then turning off and on would fix it. I haven’t seen that in months, so they must have fixed the issue.

lelandfe 4y ago
Nice! I'll give it another shot.