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frizlabyesterday at 9:10 PM1 replyview on HN

How do you compare with iCloud Private Relay (with the obvious exception that private relay only works on macOS, and in specific apps only)?


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dongcarlyesterday at 9:21 PM

We're heavily inspired by them (see our original blog post which is a bit more technical here: https://obscura.com/blog/bootstrapping-trust/)

The differences are:

- We allow you to choose an exit location (I believe iCloud Private Relay restricts you to the same location)

- Our exit hop is Mullvad instead of Cloudflare+Fastly+Akamai

- We use QUIC for transport instead of HTTP/3 (which is built on QUIC and has a bit more overhead)

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