As justinclift points out elsewhere in this discussion, the article may have misreported that: > We are considering using 2 hops for improved privacy. A second

As justinclift points out elsewhere in this discussion, the article may have misreported that: > We are considering using 2 hops for improved privacy. A second proxy would be run by an external CDN, while Google runs the first hop. This ensures that neither proxy can see both the client IP address and the destination. — https://github.com/GoogleChrome/ip-protection#core-requirements https://github.com/GoogleChrome/ip-protection#core-requireme... If they choose to go ahead with the second hop it would be the same as Apple’s approach. But it sounds like this has not been committed to yet.