[rubyfan]

I’ve been a Warp+ user for some time now and I’m mostly happy.

My online privacy is important to me. I use ad blockers too in addition to cloudflare.

A couple of things I’ve noticed along the way…

1. Switching off my wi-fi network and then rejoining later used to be an issue but seems to have resolved some time ago (mobile) 2. It seems on macOS that almost every time I login I need to update the client. 3. Usually sites can’t resolve my IP and place me hundred of miles away which is fine by me. However occasionally I run across a site that has a pretty close to home read on my location. It seems sites that leverage cloudflare cdn might see a more accurate location because they are on the same network - I’m not sure how this works technically though.

I’ve never encountered a censorship situation or any website that was inaccessible. I have run into issues where steaming sites want you to turn off VPN but this isn’t consistent. I also run into issues occasionally when jumping on a hotel wi-fi or like a Lowes or Home Depot where they want you to agree to terms and likely want to snoop your traffic.

[sillystuff]

Biggest pain points with Warp for me are lately, due to all the abuse by scrapers and such, quite a few sites just throw a 403 when I try to connect to them through Warp including my bank-- consider yourself lucky that you haven't been affected yet. And, most of the time, if I try to use Google search, I just get,

"Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot."

And, then I am encouraged to enable js so google can provide me a series of captchas to solve.

It used to work better than a VPN terminating at my own VPS, but now Warp netblocks appear to have a worse reputation than even a colocrossing/low-end box vps.

Per Cloudflare's FAQ, sites behind cloudflare see your original IP, other sites do not yet:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/warp-client/known-issues-a...

[Varloom]

Are you using free or paid Wrap ? Paid wrap hides your original IP (unlike the free) and generally the IPs have good reputation (no CAPTCHA).

[sillystuff]

> Are you using free or paid Wrap ?

free

[jshier]

I've seen this too but not in a while. I'm hoping they can combine their bot detection token attestation feature with Warp to guarantee my real traffic is separated from bot traffic before it leaves their network.

[TechBro8615]

Cloudflare Warp is not meant for anonymity. If you're using the free tier (and maybe the plus tier too?), websites behind Cloudflare are able to see your origin IP.

[Varloom]

Plus (paid) tier started giving anonymous IPs.

[rubyfan]

Thanks for confirming, that makes sense based on what I’ve seen in the wild.

[jshier]

They've recently improved their geolocation capability while preserving privacy. In addition, they add an origin IP header to outgoing HTTP requests to help origins deal with geolocation, but not all origins parse it.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/geoexit-improving-warp-user-expe...