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On a whim I installed and turned on Warp and suddenly my internet speed was both palpably faster and more consistent in its speed. I think it possible that one of the side effects of encrypting your traffic may be that it evades ISP traffic shaping.
Where is Cloudflare heading to? Do they want to „own“ the entire internet traffic?
Tl;dr: You have negotiating power based on the number of end clients you connect to the network.
And connectivity is an extremely high capital, low margin, and predatory industry.
Consequently, "build useful services, that cause more people to connect through you, that then allows you to favorably peer and lower your costs" is Cloudflare's strategic business model.
So yes, they would very much like the entire Internet to run through them. Or more accurately, terminate to their customers.
Even though there's no visible abuse right now, you know, Google's motto also used to be "don't be evil".
‘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 blocklist…
‘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 blocklist…
Why use openVPN anymore when you can easily use Wireguard instead?
I have a fun story about using Warp while on vacation (Bahamas). I was finding that my net traffic felt like it was slower/more variable than I'd expect with uneven speedups and slowdowns. On a whim I installed and turned on Warp and suddenly my internet speed was both palpably faster and more consistent in its speed. I think it possible that one of the side effects of encrypting your traffic may be that it evades IS…
> We believe privacy is a right. We won't sell your data, ever.
"We, the people who make up this company now, but not in the future, PROMISE."
I notice they didn't say "we don't keep the data."
According to the comments, this is just wireguard. I deployed my own on a webhost and I use that, probably to the same effect. I guess I have to trust the webhost not to go snooping in my private logs, but that's a whole lot more targeted and requires a lot more effort.