https://support.apple.com/en-in/102602
They call it “iCloud Private Relay”.
However on contrary to Tor, it has 2 relays.
One is run by Apple, other by a 3rd party.
lack of a 3rd relay defeats the purpose of the whole thing
Truist rule of thumb goes: If it’s made by a big corpo making money off profiling, then it’s not safe.
You shouldn’t trust it for anonymity purposes.
It just hides your IP address, nothing more.
I think of it more like a Safari-only VPN. And only works in your country & timezone.
Private relay is two-hop. Tor is 3.
You need 3 hops for optimum anonymity.
Yea I’m going to trust my data passing through Apple lol
Interestingly if you deny automatic access to the keychain you will get prompted for access to it for this purpose regularly, and this is poorly documented.
Here are some related log and details and the official page from apple
security - Transparent network proxy for Apple system services wants to use the "login" keychain - Ask Different
There’s also The Onion, it’s pretty similar to tor since they both use an allium as their logo… /s
It’s similar to Tor in the way that a VPN is similar, that is, it doesn’t compare.
Open source vs closes source. Companies ehhhhh
at least it’s better than none
oh sweet summer child, your glaring innocence is bewitching me
They are literally scanning people’s phones and pictures. They’re not a trustworthy company.
One node is run by them, the other node is run by the CIA.
I don’t think so, but that’s not the point. Tor was built to try to give users as much anonimity as possible and defend them from bad actors, the iCloud Private Relay is built just to hide your IP address trying to reduce ads tracking.
iCloud Private Relay — part of an iCloud+ subscription — helps protect your privacy when you browse the web in Safari.
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Cloudflare is the CIA? https://blog.cloudflare.com/icloud-private-relay
Scanning pictures in iCloud (not on the device itself) is old story Apple Kills Its Plan to Scan Your Photos for CSAM. Here’s What’s Next | WIRED
By now could be prevented with a simple setting switch as all iCloud content is then end-to-end encrypted and Apple can’t read it