Cloudflare Warp
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Cloudflare Warp
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#2So... it's a VPN?
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#3So... it's a VPN?
It's a DNS service with an optional VPN feature.
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#5So... it's a VPN?
Wireguard VPN. But they disclose your real IP to websites served by Cloudflare, so it’s kind of unusual. I use it to circumvent my country censure.
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#6So... it's a VPN?
Yes, VPN via wireguard. Quote from their blog (https://blog.cloudflare.com/warp-for-desktop/):
WARP was built on the philosophy that even people who don’t know what “VPN” stands for should be able to still easily get the protection a VPN offers. For those of us unfortunately very familiar with traditional corporate VPNs, something better was needed. Enter our own WireGuard implementation called BoringTun.
The WARP application uses BoringTun to encrypt all the traffic from your device and send it directly to Cloudflare’s edge, ensuring that no one in between is snooping on what you're doing.
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#7Why do they want to add all our traffic to their backbone?
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#8You have to click on one of the links to find out what this actually does in addition to Cloudflare’s 1^4 DNS server:
> Enter our own WireGuard implementation called BoringTun. The WARP application uses BoringTun to encrypt all the traffic from your device and send it directly to Cloudflare’s edge, ensuring that no one in between is snooping on what you're doing. If the site you are visiting is already a Cloudflare customer, the content is immediately sent down to your device. With WARP+ we use Argo Smart Routing to devise the shortest path through our global network of data centers to reach whomever you are talking to.
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#9‘eastdakota:
How would you candidly compare guarantees/expectations of Mullvad VPN vs your Cloudflare Warp VPN with respect to:
- privacy, but also
- performance.
As a side note, I really value using a certain popular torrent box VM service for $10/mo is that they provide SSH and OpenVPN. I’ve used that VPN a lot when I worked in GCC countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain) to help me get around national HTTP blocklists. Most every other VPN I tried was blocked, or would get blocked after a certain # of GB sent in a certain timespan. I think the torrent box servers were located in minor data centers which weren’t on their list of “high potential risk” so they bypassed the otherwise pretty thorough blocks.
The server I used was also located in the United States which helped a ton with proper localization and accessing my bank accounts/etc which were otherwise sometimes more difficult to use from other countries.
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