Apples new Private Relay feature is an elegant way to break that connection without breaking anything else.
Every Apple OS update brings new privacy-protecting features, and iOS 15 is no exception.
An IP address is a unique number that identifies any computer on the internet, including your home router.
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It takes the URL of the website you want to visit and also your IP address.
It then encrypts that URL and sends both to Apples servers.
The idea is that nobody has the complete picture.
Apple knows who you are, but not where you are going.
Likewise, the trusted partner knows what site youre visiting, but not who you are.
Its a clever trick.
Apples Private Relay is not a VPN (Virtual Private web link).
A VPN is an encrypted tunnel through which all your data passes.
All other data travels in the traditional way.
With a VPN, you have to trust the vendor 100%.
After all, it gets to see all your data pass through.
Great, but How Does it Help Me?
Whenever we use the internet, we leak all kinds of data.
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And it doesnt end there.
Piece by piece, Apple is dismantling the mechanisms that allow this kind of privacy invasion.
