Seems Cloudflare has a habit of launching new stuff on April 1st.
Today we’re excited to announce what we began to plan more than two
years ago: the 1.1.1.1 App with Warp performance and security
technology. We built Warp from the ground up to thrive in the harsh
conditions of the modern mobile Internet. It began with our acquisition of
Neumob
in November 2017. At the time, our CTO, John Graham-Cumming, wrote
about how Neumob was part of our “Super Secret Master
Plan.” At the
time he wrote:
“Ultimately, the Neumob software is easily extended to operate as a
‘VPN’ for mobile devices that can secure and accelerate all HTTP
traffic from a mobile device (including normal web browsing and app
API calls). Most VPN software, frankly, is awful. Using a VPN feels
like a step backwards to the dial up era of obscure error messages,
slow downs, and clunky software. It really doesn’t have to be that
way.”
That’s the vision we’ve been working toward ever since: extending
Cloudflare’s global network — now within a few milliseconds of the
vast majority of the world’s population — to help fix the performance
and security of the mobile Internet.
…
Security is table stakes. What really distinguishes Warp is
performance and reliability. While other VPNs slow down the Internet,
Warp incorporates all the work that the team from Neumob has done to
improve mobile Internet performance. We’ve built Warp around a
UDP-based protocol that is optimized for the mobile Internet. We also
leveraged Cloudflare’s massive global network, allowing Warp to
connect with servers within milliseconds of most the world’s Internet
users. With our network’s direct peering connections and uncongested
paths we can deliver a great experience around the world. Our tests
have shown that Warp will often significantly increase Internet
performance. Generally, the worse your network connection the better
Warp should make your performance.
The amount of centralization around CloudFlare is very very very scary.
It is not good that one Company has such control over the traffic of the internet, How much of the Total Worlds Traffic goes through at least 1 CloudFlare Server now?
I will not be using this VPN, or their DNS Services
As an FYI for audience in this sub who can understand the difference. According to blog post this only encapsulates non-SSL traffic so does nothing for SSL. Not sure if anyone would care but important to point out.
Their article states that about half as much DNS traffic goes through them as goes through Google.
Unless youre maintaining your own DNS you have to trust someone eventually. I trust Google less and my ISP less, and other than Cloud flare who else is there that has decent speed?
Everytime I bring up the the very possible reality where CloudFlare is a NSA op I get downvoted to shit. Yeah, I don’t have a smoking gun but the MO fits.
