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Currently I use PIA VPN when browsing. When I go to Cloudflare sites, I often get captchas because, in the past, I imagine someone was using PIA to abuse a Cloudflare site.

So what happens when people start using Warp to hide their IP so they can hack, scan, scrape, upload malware, etc? Is Cloudflare going to show captchas to Warp users and slow down their experience? What is the plan to mitigate abuse on a free VPN that doesn't log?




This is basically answered in a different thread [0]. They said they're passing on the original IP of the person using Warp, so it won't work in the same way as something like PIA in that way.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19544845


That is why Cloudflare wants you to use their VPN rather than an anonymized one. If they can track you, they can have more data about whether to block you.


Nope. We want you to use our VPN because we think it'll make your mobile Internet experience better (faster and more secure). That turns into an upsell opportunity to us and makes our core service (which people pay us for) more valuable.


Damn. Cloudflare's super nice customer-centric stance on this product is killing me. I quit my FAANG job just this past month to build something similar.


OT: What's going on in your profile? is this some sorta custom way to follow other user's posts?


Just a reminder to self that I should periodically check comments from those accounts. Pretty much stole it from tptacek's profile.


Cool thanks! I'm gonna do it too :)


So if I end up at a Cloudflare customer over a Cloudflare VPN you will never tie the two records together? That is actually encouraging if you'd publicly commit to that.


Why do you refer to this as a VPN?

On my phone my web traffic is being sent direct using this, looks like only DNS queries are sent over the VPN tunnel?

Is WARP+ the full VPN ?


We haven't launched Warp yet. What you are seeing is the existing 1.1.1.1 handling just DNS.




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