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#161

How would this work together with nextdns.io?

On Android it doesn't appear to override private DNS settings, so its working just fine for me with Adguard DNS. I think nextdns works the same way.

I'm surprised, but pleased that you can use WARP without 1.1.1.1 DNS. Hopefully thats not a bug.

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#163

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Maybe I'll feel better if some other company releases a product that directly competes with Warp.

Aren't there a lot of them? The bigger VPN providers also offer Wireguard and a simple UI (Basically click the map and you're connected).

According to Saurik, Warp IS Wireguard.

https://twitter.com/saurik/status/1176893448445558784

His provided script is cache.saurik.com/twitter/wgcf.sh

Re: WARP is here

#164
post #161

How would this work together with nextdns.io?

On Android it doesn't appear to override private DNS settings, so its working just fine for me with Adguard DNS. I think nextdns works the same way. I'm surprised, but pleased that you can use WARP without 1.1.1.1 DNS. Hopefully thats not a bug.

On iOS it doesn't seem to work. It's either WARP or nextdns. A quick google search taught me all "custom" dns setups on iOS require some sort of VPN-like solution (very much like the nextdns.io iOS app does).

Back to nextdns then, has more value to me.

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#165

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I wonder if any popular applications for a mobile platform ship with Rust code already.

There have been some instances of this before; at least one game was implemented in Rust. But, given the length of the Warp waitlist, I'm pretty sure this is the most popular application so far. There could be things I don't know about though, at this point Rust is big enough that not everyone who uses it talks about it publicly.

Isn't Firefox using at least some Rust on the Android version?

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#167

I was openly critical of Cloudflare when they announced Warp the first time. My accusations were over-reaching, and I ultimately retracted them. But I'm still skeptical, and I still won't use Warp. Here's what still bothers me: Cloudflare is a single company with points of presence all over the world, handling traffic for websites all over the world (including some big ones), and now trying to attract consumers world…

the way the Internet was -- a large number of small providers, communicating with each other over open standard protocols

I don't remember the internet ever being like that.

I remember when you couldn't e-mail someone in another city without going through gateways. When you couldn't visit the majority of major web sites without downloading plug-ins. When you knew the information you wanted was out there, but couldn't get to it because it was behind obtuse, non-searchable infrastructure.

To me, the internet today isn't perfect. But it's a heck of a lot better than its romanticized distant past.

As for WARP, I'll give it a try. I don't fully trust Cloudflare, but I trust it a heck of a lot more than I trust my ISP or my cell phone provider. Long ago, both of those entities burned privacy bridges. Cloudflare hasn't done so. Yet, anyway.

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#168

Exciting! We're a tiny company and have sponsored WireGuard two years in a row; you can see us on the WireGuard home page. Cloudflare is a gigantic company who just used the WireGuard design work to fork the project. Has Cloudflare given a cent to WireGuard? Why isn't their logo on the site?

s/home page/donations page/

https://www.wireguard.com/donations/

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#169

I was openly critical of Cloudflare when they announced Warp the first time. My accusations were over-reaching, and I ultimately retracted them. But I'm still skeptical, and I still won't use Warp. Here's what still bothers me: Cloudflare is a single company with points of presence all over the world, handling traffic for websites all over the world (including some big ones), and now trying to attract consumers world…

the way the Internet was -- a large number of small providers, communicating with each other over open standard protocols I don't remember the internet ever being like that. I remember when you couldn't e-mail someone in another city without going through gateways. When you couldn't visit the majority of major web sites without downloading plug-ins. When you knew the information you wanted was out there, but couldn't…

> When you couldn't visit the majority of major web sites without downloading plug-ins.

I was on the web since AOL added it to their client in the mid-90s and it was never as bad as you're hinting it is.

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