What Is Apple’s Private Relay, and Is a VPN Better?
Does it only work for user with AppleOne or iCloud subscriptions?
This article is fucking stupid. It pisses me off I could write better than these people making a living wage from it.
This is not a vpn. It’s a special kind of DOH (DNS over HTTPS) that Cloudflare and Apple crafted together.
They do it by tag teaming the action. Apple takes your request and assigns you a random ID and passes you onto cloudflare who then decrypts your header and sends you on your way. By doing this, neither company gets the full scope your request making it nearly impossible to spy on.
Simply use the service and lookup your IP. Your location and IP address will be the nearest cloudflare exit node.
This shit isn’t rocket science and these “journalists” need to do some fucking research.
IF ANY “JOURNALIST” IS READING THIS. I WANT CREDIT YOU ASSHOLES.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but doesn’t this get easily defeated by browser fingerprinting? For example wouldn’t Reddit know two accounts both belong to me simply due to the same browser fingerprint, they don’t even need my IP?
This sounds really good.
It gives me everything I want from a VPN, while also being much cheaper than all the VPNs I’ve tried.
Plus, I already pay for 50GB of iCloud storage.
Ask Apple to host Tor exit nodes
From what I understand it’s not a true VPN, they’ll only use an alternate IP address from another location in the same area.
Do you guys trust it? Seems tol hood to be true. Why would they do this? All of these companies spy on people🤔
Isn’t this mostly DNS-over-HTTPS, which has been discussed a lot already?
Why is this not available here in the philippines…?
Does private relay allow employers from seeing traffic on wifi networks?
iCloud, even for just the 50gb option
Any paid iCloud storage subscription gets it for free. (Even the $1 subscription).
Is this something that could be used to bypass censored networks at businesses and schools?
I’ve had to turn it off with a bunch of us over at r/iosbeta. Seems there’s a bug with it that disconnects you randomly and you won’t have internet until you turn it off.
It isn’t safari only. It also covers some aspects of apps and other data. Would recommend watching Apple’s WWDC talks on how it works but fwiw it’s not limited to Safari (also why occasionally apps lose connection in db1)
A VPN encrypts all of your traffic, so this iCloud±thing is no replacement. It also won’t surpass geoblocking. It’s a nice feature to make „normie“ a little more private while surfing, but is in no way a replacement for a proper VPN service. Think of it as an extra layer of privacy.
I would love to give up on Safari but Chrome’s battery performance on M1 is atrocious.
It’s… not Safari only? I thought it was system-wide.
Not a fan of safari? What?