Posts from 1-2 years ago conclude WARP doesn’t really protect your IP when torrenting. But it does protect it in the present.
You can verify yourself using these checkers that your IP is properly hidden:
- https://bash.ws/torrent-leak-test
- https://ipleak.net/
- https://www.whatismyip.net/tools/torrent-ip-checker/
Logging? https://www.cloudflare.com/application/privacypolicy/
They say they don’t log the link between your IP and the sites you visit. They say they just use your IP to assign to your the Cloudflare IP.
Speed? I can max out my ISP speed, which is pretty decent. (With the free version, no need to pay for WARP+)
Free, decently fast, decent privacy policy. IMO good enough for the average pirate who doesn’t want to pay.
Thoughts?
Edit: Warp is this VPN https://1.1.1.1/ I wanted to make this argument because it’s often said that you need a paid VPN to torrent (in some 1st world countries like USA or Germany). But this is a decent free alternative.
To me it is not 100% clear if your IP is always hidden
This community post talks about mixed results although it says that issue was fixed
A quick Google search and many sites say that warp does not hide your IP altough some say that they added that feature
However this post and this post from the cloudflare team says it does hide your ip.
When you visit a site that using Cloudflare, the site receives your IP address in a header. Sites not using Cloudflare do not. When torrenting, it’s possible that one of the trackers uses Cloudflare and gets your IP in that header, but it’s not a concern as other peers only receive the VPN IP.
This was true in the past.
But right now, according to this, they deny it specically: “WARP replaces your original IP address with a Cloudflare IP […]. This happens regardless of whether the site is on the Cloudflare network or not.”
I don’t know of a checker to individually verify this quickly, but I assume they say the truth.
Anyway, I think you are right in that it wouldn’t be a concern for torrenting, if it was true for the present.
no thanks I don’t want to reveal my approximate location
I believe the feature was included at the end of 2022. I know it works right now because I tested with the ip-leak checkers
Cloudflares blog posts say so so I assume this is true but I would still recommend everyone to verify this for themselves before receiving letters from law firms.