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Yeah, and there are solid performance reasons for that too even beyond any legal/privacy ones. Relaying across an ocean could actually be a fairly significant latency hit in many cases. Services that are completely focused on privacy even against some level of state actions (like Tor) may just accept and eat that, but that's not definitely not the threat scenario Apple is targeting and it would diminish its appeal as a fairly transparent service. Even purely in the browser people do engage in a certain amount of real-time activity. I can't see Apple considering adding thousands of miles worth of RTT ideal.

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All depends on where the destination server is. If the destination is in the U.S., you might benefit from your traffic being routed through Apple's private network.