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iCloud+ Private Relay or VPN?
Q Is iC loud+ Private Relay good enough to use instead of VPN
by CHRISTOPHER BRENNEN
A
Theprimary purpose of iCloud+ Private Relay is more limited than that of a full Virtual Private Network (VPN) service. It aims to anonymise your IP address within a given area. This prevents others from identifying you or your location without losing access to services that are geographically restricted.
Private Relay works through two relay servers, only the first knowing your IP address, but that doesn’t know the IP address of the server you’re trying to connect to. The second server only knows you through the proxy IP address assigned by the first relay server, which can be allocated from an area containing millions of IP addresses.