What Is Apple’s Private Relay, and Is a VPN Better?

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Or just 1$ for the 50gb option

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For 0.99 dollars a month you can get private relay

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I think what they meant was browser extensions from macOS are now coming to iOS and iPadOS.

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As soon as the addresses for Apples VPN servers get released it’s going to be blocked on school and business networks.

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But it’s not system wide, is it?

The thing with using a VPN is that you don’t just choose a random one. You put a fair bit of research into it and chose one which is best for you.

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Both when compared to Safari

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Yeah, I get almost half the battery life on Chrome than I do on Safari.

That’s on a good day. I can get probably 5-6hrs of life using Chrome vs 12+ with Safari.

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Google does have a VPN and I believe it’s open sourced code. But the VPN itself is behind a 2TB $99 cloud storage.

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They don’t disclose the reason why isn’t available here. The only thing is that we have a early 00’s law against online child pornography that may ban DNS-based proxies. Despite this, IP based VPN is not illegal.

Colombia is the only western country that doesn’t have private relay, even if we haven’t any major censorship issues.

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Here is an article about it. Private relay is not DNS over HTTPS, it’s a 2 hop VPN where Apple only controls one hop.

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What’s the difference then? It encrypts data that leaves your computer, including addresses of sites you might want to visit.

tbh this is so general that it could apply to a ton of different privacy/security approaches.

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He wrote $12 a year, so that is $1 a month.

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That’s what I meant lol $12 a year for a VPN (so basically private relay)

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Oh okay, I can see this being useful. I didn’t know about that feature, thanks for telling me!

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Private Relay just breaks the network connection at the building I work at. The device attempts to reach Apple’s servers to relay traffic, but our filter wants it to authenticate first. The iPad then attempts to authenticate, but pushes that through the relay too. Ends up just running in a loop.

Edit: This is a school btw. We’ll handle it just like we do any VPN.

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To system wide due to bandwidth requirements would be my guess, might be one day in the future

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I was hoping it’s not just DoH but have we verified it’s a full vpn?

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Private Relay is not a full VPN, though. It’s only partly relaying information, not sending everything over the VPN.

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Thanks for entirely unhelpful answer.

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Ah yeah lol I thought 12 a month lol