If you guys have premium version of warp in android (which is cheaper than ios) and you want to use it as wireguard client such in gl router, I know how to do it. But I am afraid, is it against rules if I make tutorial for that?
No, thatās not what I meant @Johnex is right. You could do stuff with that which is rather not discussed, which you could theoretically also do with any other similar service. I said that since I hope that the described on Github continuously works and wonāt be abused. No need to worry about anything @onkang, sorry if it seemed this way but I try not to incentivize people to abuse it. To use it like stated isnāt abuse and not illegal or anything, to use it as user is probably almost anywhere legally totally fine.
Basically the TLDR is that itās not supported, but itās the internet and people are going to internet so no need to get worried about getting SWATTED or locked up for ever under misuse of computers act on this one.
In anycase, the link I posted in OP clearly explains how to use a paid account with this process so there is no need to repeat it here anyways
Happy that so many people have found some use from this!
Okay CFs reaction surprises me, not that I think they would care that theyāre unique ID system is, well, worthelss, but that must have been clear since you can create accounts without sim card and with android/iOS simulator. I noticed something and I saw the possibility, and it basically worked first try. Since Iām and our startup team are the opposite of interested that CF gets in trouble because of an infrastructural āproblemā, if enough people came right up with the idea like I, I thought, well, better I say nothing and the discussion started.
I didnāt say AT ALL that one could get in trouble for setting up the tunnels this way. Iām outta this thread, seems like it isnāt as obvious as I thought and therefore mustnāt be explained or anything anymore.
Oh sorry I think that i didnāt quite understand - thought you were just referring to transferring paid accounts.
Regardless, they will release WARP for desktop I believe so Iām sure theyāre not really worried about non-mobile use of their services.
A lot of their algo stuff (if youāve ever played with cloudflared) is also pretty easy to use on many different systems so in some respects they are pretty open already.
Perhaps if you believe to have found a vector for abuse you could send it in to their bug bounty program?
Honestly though, I really doubt that there is much space for going too crazy with this - it doesnāt hide your IP at all - it only encrypts your first hop to cloudflare network and then they MITM any connections to cloudflare sites to introduce some performance tweaks (as far as I understand).
Itās useful for gl-inet devices for using fast wireguard encryption on public or mobile networks for absolutely free of cost.
If you are just at home, then a regular paid VPN is still a probably a better choice.
agree with everything you say but just wanted to add that performance tweaks equals ā¦
redirected marketing and blocked marketing for performance increase
web history to sell
doh for dns control
Why else would someone āgiveā you a āfreeā vpn?
They are simply trying to steal it right out of the hands of your own isp which suites me just fine.
Yeah thatās definitely one way of looking at it.
If you donāt pay for WARP then you do only get the minimum usage of their network and the costs on their infrastructure is really minimal. They benefit much more if you use the app however and not a standard wireguard client - the app is basically a network testing node that provides networking analytics to cloudflare.
They say they keep logs for 2 days and āanonymisedā.
I think that their core business does have a coincidental benefit that allows them to offer something for āfreeā without monetising it directly and selling information on the sly. I think the more concerning part is that it is a US company subject to NSLs.
If you are in the US then WARP is clearly an improvement on ISP ToS which can include injecting adverts and flat out selling your data.
For others in the world it is a little more nuanced. Still a useful networking tool though - and running it on a wireguard client is obviously much better from a privacy perspective than using their app which is constantly reporting metrics.
I do believe that they are using the metrics for their networking infrastructure and to provide their other services, but it is still only going by privacy policy and faith - not every company is run by a levar levison type with morals and conviction to do the right thing.
The real question here is, why on earths not so clean sky would you use a USA based VPN provider?
We all know how that will go.
You want your VPN to be based in a country that will not release all your information as soon as they get a court order for it, sometimes not even a court order required if they just label it as in interest to national security when you are looking for food for your dog on some shady site that also happens to sell some more grey area things.
Gone throgh all the steps one by one but status check still showing that I am not connected to all CloudFlare services even after rebooting the router! Where am I going wrong?
Here are the results I get on test:
|Connected to 1.1.1.1 |Yes|
|Using DNS over HTTPS (DoH) |No|
|Using DNS over TLS (DoT) |Yes|
|Using DNS over WARP |No|
|AS Name |Cloudflare|
|AS Number |13335|
|Cloudflare Data Center |LHR|
First, please make sure that the wireguard traffic for the download is flowing. If it keeps on 0 then it is not working yet, even after you got connected status. Because, it is always get connected status if the host is reachable.
If you find 0 on downloaded then reconnect. Use lower MTU (maybe 1280) might help.
after using generated wireguard from warp+ I get this issue a lot, especially on smartphones. And mostly restarting connection works, if not then your id maybe already deleted in cloudflare user database.
