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://developers.cloudflare.com/warp-client/privacy/
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 https://1.1.1.1/, a free VPN. I wanted to mention this because it’s often said that you need a paid VPN for torrenting in some countries like the US or Germany
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.
Edit: I found a tool to verify this now: this http header checker is using Cloudflare according to the urlvoid scan. And I can’t see my real IP in the X-Forwarded-For and CF-Connecting-IP HTTP headers
no thanks I don’t want to reveal my approximate location