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by sillystuff 1381 days ago
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...

2 comments

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).
> Are you using free or paid Wrap ?

free

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.