One of my local channel news sites doesn't work at all with Private Relay turned on. "Request Blocked". Womp.
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Ugh, Private Relay has slowed down Safari significantly. I can't decide what's more important: speed or privacy. Decisions, decisions...
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I’m not saying Apple don’t have issues more, but Google only just qualify for the statement “keep zero outages for weeks”. They don’t keep them for even up to a month:
Ref: https://downdetector.co.uk/status/google/archive/2021/06/
| Company | Date | Started |
|---|
| 08/06/2021 | 11:01 a.m |
| 20/05/2021 | 3:28 p.m. |
| 12/04/2021 | 2:09 p.m. |
| 08/04/2021 | 9:56 a.m. |
| 25/03/2021 | 3:28 p.m. |
| 24/03/2021 | 4:44 p.m. |
| 24/03/2021 | 6:32 a.m. |
| 23/03/2021 | 4:12 p.m. |
| 23/03/2021 | 6:12 a.m. |
| 22/03/2021 | 8:12 p.m. |
| 17/03/2021 | 4:56 p.m. |
| 23/02/2021 | 8:37 p.m. |
Oh, they did have a good month in January.
Works well for me in the UK, did a speed test and my down speed was only 3mbps (207Mbps as opposed to 210Mbps) less than normal
Pages load at the same speed as normal.
It's using a cloud flare server in London (was a Fastly one this morn) - maybe because less people are on the beta in England?
Pages load at the same speed as normal.
It's using a cloud flare server in London (was a Fastly one this morn) - maybe because less people are on the beta in England?
I've not noticed any speed difference either. It seems that some websites (best buy for instance) continually ask for a 2FA code when Private Relay is turned on, but for the most part it works as advertised.
Edit: One thing I forgot to mention - my corp wifi doesn't pop up the login page with private relay enabled.
More than likely this part is a beta bug, I imagine in the full release it will stick per the wifi setting, the safari setting, or the whole phone setting
Seems to be stable this week with beta 2. I had to turn it off over a week ago on beta 1 because any sites I go to would just hang or take so long to render.
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Beta 2 release improves it quite a bit. Now allows you to geolocate where you physically are, but still use Private Relay.
The choice between convenience and security is ubiquitous and will always be a thing.
Oh so Apple Card is down again? Oh wow…
This has become beyond ridiculous tbh. For a company transitioning to service-oriented this is not fun.
Glad to say that my issues with Private Relay have completely disappeared. No major slowdowns at all. There's an occasional hangup every so often but only a few extra seconds, instead of a minute+. In addition, I've been seeing a lot less verification checks, unlike beta 1.
Glad beta 2 fixed it. I can finally properly use this great privacy feature.
Glad beta 2 fixed it. I can finally properly use this great privacy feature.
Private relay, despite not mentioning app privacy, does “work” on apps, in a negative way.
One of my game starts to become increasingly difficult to log into, but turning off private relay restores full functionary. The worst part is, every time you restart the setting turns back on. Despite being beta, I’m very confident such behavior will remain, much like Windows defender in windows 10 turning back on from off after each restart.
One of my game starts to become increasingly difficult to log into, but turning off private relay restores full functionary. The worst part is, every time you restart the setting turns back on. Despite being beta, I’m very confident such behavior will remain, much like Windows defender in windows 10 turning back on from off after each restart.
Didn't notice any speed slowdowns over here.
Connected over either my 100 Mbits Wi-Fi or the 5G network.
That being said, things are encrypted, thus it will more likely have to transfer more data to show you the same thing, so yes it could impact speed.
Connected over either my 100 Mbits Wi-Fi or the 5G network.
That being said, things are encrypted, thus it will more likely have to transfer more data to show you the same thing, so yes it could impact speed.
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Is Private Relay only working in Safari? Or does it work for all outbound traffic from your device?
If only for Safari, I fail to see the advantage of this (other than being free of course) over a regular VPN service?
If only for Safari, I fail to see the advantage of this (other than being free of course) over a regular VPN service?
Private relay works for safari and some apps. The advantage is as long as you don’t to geohopping or doing network-wide encryption (iCloud+ will not work for a router, unless you literally spare a Mac as a router) or such, private relay might be just enough for daily stuff like that.
Thanks for clarification!
I don't do geohopping, but I prefer having everything go through the VPN so looks like I'll be sticking with NordVPN for a while longer
For some reason I cannot enable Private Relay in iOS 15 beta. It tells me I need to upgrade my iCloud subscription to iCloud+, but when I try to, it tells me that my account cannot be upgraded at this time? Very strange.
If a restart doesn’t fix the problem, just wait for a few betas. Right now private relay has a very good chance to just break your app and/or your connection to certain websites and servers.