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From the article, this is powered by a partnership with Cloudflare. It's worth noting that until August 6 of this year, Cloudflare's WARP VPN would leak your IP
by btown 4y ago
From the article, this is powered by a partnership with Cloudflare. It's worth noting that until August 6 of this year, Cloudflare's WARP VPN would leak your IP address - but only to sites using the Cloudflare network.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220609160341/https://developers.cloudflare.com/warp-client/known-issues-and-faq/#why-is-my-public-ip-address-sometimes-visible https://web.archive.org/web/20220609160341/https://developer...
And when Cloudflare released their new SOPs for Warp, they did so in a blog post titled "More features, still private" - https://blog.cloudflare.com/geoexit-improving-warp-user-experience-larger-network/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/geoexit-improving-warp-user-expe... as referenced in https://developers.cloudflare.com/warp-client/known-issues-and-faq/#does-warp-reveal-my-ip-address-to-websites-i-visit https://developers.cloudflare.com/warp-client/known-issues-a...
Microsoft's initial announcement for the feature touted that IP addresses would be masked, and one imagines that they did their diligence with Cloudflare and are enforcing the strong practices that WARP has now rolled out more broadly.
But it's worth noting that you're routing through a company to whom the words "still private" encompassed leaking client IP address information to Cloudflare's hosting customers as recently as two months ago.
- judge2020 4y agoWarp/1.1.1.1[0] is a product, not a VPN, despite the fact that it tunnels your traffic. Even after the IP address change, the current documentation and promotions for Warp do not call it a VPN. It was never meant to keep your IP hidden from the websites you visit. 0: https://1.1.1.1/ https://1.1.1.1/
- btown 4y agoI wish that were how it had been presented, but they indeed did advertise it as a VPN. From https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/ : "Technically, WARP is a VPN.... We built WARP because we’ve had those conversations with our loved ones too and they’ve not gone well. So we knew that we had to start with turning the weaknesses of other VPN solutions into strengths. Under the covers, WARP acts as a VPN. But now in the 1.1.1.1 App, if users decide to enable WARP, instead of just DNS queries being secured and optimized, all Internet traffic is secured and optimized. In other words, WARP is the VPN for people who don't know what V.P.N. stands for."
- judge2020 4y agoI don't think this holds much weight given the regular users of this product are likely referred to https://1.1.1.1 https://1.1.1.1 and are unlikely to read through all of this 3000 word blog post with tech jargon. However, indeed, many people might've heard about it from other blog posts saying it's a VPN or word-of-mouth from more technical users also calling it a VPN - but it's obvious Cloudflare made a concerted effort not to use that term.
- jdgoesmarching 4y agoI think it holds weight when I’m staring at a Cloudflare blog URL that explicitly says “Warp better VPN.” I don’t doubt that this has been scrubbed from current documentation, but this is fair evidence for the above comment’s claim that CF has advertised it as a VPN. I don’t have a dog in this fight, but it was especially odd in this context to claim that this misconception was entirely driven from outside of Cloudflare when the URL is sitting right there.
- genewitch 4y agoit's used five times in that single paragraph. That's cloudflare calling it a VPN. you can't unring the bell.
- jkpe 4y agoI remember seeing this blog post and the updated docs suggest they no longer reveal your IP but enable WARP and visit https://www.whatismyip-address.com https://www.whatismyip-address.com (uses Cloudflare) and you’ll see your actual IP.