In April, Cloudflare, the internet infrastructure giant, launched a security- and speed-focused mobile VPN called Warp. The idea was to offer a sleek, streamlined alternative to the buggy, laggy, generally frustrating options that make up most of the mobile VPN market. But things with Warp didn't go as planned. In fact, the original release had almost all the problems that Cloudflare was trying to solve. And a waitlist of about 2 million people who wanted to try a half-baked product.
On Wednesday, the company is finally relaunching Warp, which Cloudflare says is better for its rocky debut—even if it was embarrassing. The VPN builds on Cloudflare's existing mobile app 1.1.1.1, which encrypts "domain name system" connections, so your internet service provider or other lurkers can't see which websites you access. But Warp goes beyond this protection to encrypt the whole journey from your device to a web server and back—even if the website itself still isn't offering HTTPS web encryption. And all of this happens quickly, without draining your battery, and without complicated setup. Seriously. Like, for real this time.
"Yeah, what we thought was going to be easy back in April turned out to be a lot harder than we expected," says Cloudflare's CEO Matthew Prince. "We had been testing this primarily in San Francisco and Austin and London, which is where the teams that were working on this are based. But as soon as user ..
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