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I remember recently using Cloudflare Warp and using one of those webpages that tell you your IP address and it showed my real IP address. It was a bit weird.

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Warp is not designed to hide your address. If website is behind cloudflare, it'll know your IP address. If website is not behind cloudflare, your address will not be available.

There was some communication (forum,discord) that this would change in the future. Apparently the plan was or is to hide the IP from pages on Cloudflare as well. But no idea if that’s implemented yet.

That doesn’t sound right.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/warp-for-desktop/

> WARP was built on the philosophy that even people who don’t know what “VPN” stands for should be able to still easily get the protection a VPN offers.

Crazy that cloudflare's marketing wouldn't be entirely forthcoming.

> From a technical perspective, WARP is a VPN. But it is designed for a very different audience than a traditional VPN. WARP is not designed to allow you to access geo-restricted content when you’re traveling. It will not hide your IP address from the websites you visit. If you’re looking for that kind of high-security protection then a traditional VPN or a service like Tor are likely better choices for you.

See: https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-warp-plus/

"get the protection a VPN offers" seems like poor wording, then.

So it's a VPN but it doesn't do anything that you expect from a VPN? It doesn't let me access devices in a LAN, it doesn't hide my IP, it doesn't change my country... then what is Warp good for?

It protects you from your local network and ISP, and makes some websites faster.

Is the page not clear about that?

Wow, that is really shady.

If you have the paid version you get anonymous IP, otherwise it uses you own IP. I use their own speed test page to check my IP and location of the cloudflare server I'm using. https://speed.cloudflare.com/

I downloaded that recently to check it out and it crippled my 5G speeds too.

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