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by radicality 689 days ago
It also queries from external servers? I was under the impression it’s all from the IP of the users themselves. I have Reeder on iOS, and all the feed storage set to iCloud, and afaik whenever I open the app and it’s syncing, I imagine it’s going via whatever network I’m currently connected to.
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rcarmo 689 days ago
That's probably Apple's Private Relay feature
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latexr 688 days ago
iCloud Private Relay only affects Safari.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102602

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rcarmo 688 days ago
That's not what it says on that article. According to their PDF, Private Relay also covers apps:

https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/iCloud_Private_Relay_Over...

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latexr 688 days ago
> That's not what it says on that article.

I don’t see any mention of anything else but Safari on the page.

> According to their PDF, Private Relay also covers apps

Only if the app’s traffic is unencrypted, which is a an important caveat. In practice, I doubt that affects many.

Still, thank you for the correction. I was under the impression there was another small case in addition to Safari but wasn’t finding it so thought I misremembered.

And it is relevant in this case since it is plausible someone added a non-HTTPS feed URL as a feed and never updated it.

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