Exactly a year after launching its WARP VPN client on Android and iOS, Cloudflare has announced the rollout of the WARP beta for macOS and Windows. The new desktop clients use the same Wireguard protocol to secure Internet connections and keep users safe from being spied on by the ISP or any third-party. Also, just like WARP on mobile, the basic service will be free on macOS and Windows.
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Do note that the desktop client is not yet available for download, but the company says that it will happen sooner rather than later. According to an Matthew Prince, the company’s CEO, “While we announced the beta of 1.1.1.1 with WARP on April 1, 2019 it took us until late September before we were able to open it up to general availability. Microsoft office for el capitan 10.11 6. We don’t expect the wait for macOS and Windows WARP to be nearly as long”.
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Apr 05, 2020 Cloudflare Warp. Cloudflare launched it’s first mobile app which is right now only available on App Store and Google Play Store. But soon it is available for Windows as well as macOS. The 1.1.1.1 App has speed, security, and privacy if you are using it. Apr 02, 2020 Just like WARP on the 1.1.1.1 mobile app, the basic service will be free on macOS and Windows. Cloudflare plans to add paid WARP+ support on the desktop in the coming months to allow users to leverage Cloudflare’s Argo network for even faster Internet performance.
One of the premier content delivery networks (CDNs) in the world, Cloudflare also provides the whole gamut of cloud-based solutions for website owners and network administrators. The list includes distributed DNS service, free DDoS Protection, reverse proxies, automatic caching and SSL offloading. The company added consumer DNS service to that list in 2018 with the launch of the 1.1.1.1 resolver on Android and iOS.
Cloudflare announced its WARP VPN service last year as an option within the 1.1.1.1 app on iOS and Android to secure internet connections. The company claims to have garnered ‘millions of users’ for the service already, but can expect its usage to increase significantly in the coming months with its availability on Windows and Mac. Prince also said that the company plans to release a WARP client for Linux in the future, but there’s no ETA for that just yet.
![]() In brief: On April 1 of last year, Cloudflare unveiled 'WARP' to the world, a high-speed VPN that came as a free add-on to the company's 1.1.1.1 mobile DNS app. Now, precisely a year later, Cloudflare is using April Fool's Day to announce more WARP news: the VPN is officially coming to macOS and Windows as a public beta.
The high-speed VPN will offer the same functionality on desktop that it does on mobile. It will use the same 'fast, efficient' Wireguard protocol to secure connections, and its core functionality will be entirely free for everyone to access; just as it is on Android and iOS.
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Cloudflare chose April 1 as its seemingly traditional WARP-related announcement date to make a point. As it said last year, the company has never found the April Fools' Day antics of other tech companies all that appealing. Indeed, Cloudflare seems quite bitter about the day, stating the following back in 2019:
While most days the Internet is full of promise and innovation, on 'April Fools' a handful of elite tech companies decide to waste the time of literally billions of people with juvenile jokes that only they find funny. Cloudflare has never been one for the traditional April Fools antics.
Cloudflare hopes WARP will not only obfuscate your internet activity from prying eyes when activated, but also potentially speed up your connection. That was one of the main selling points for the VPN's mobile release, and Cloudflare promises to carry the functionality over to its desktop client.
WARP+ customers will be the first to gain access to WARP's desktop beta, which will let them take advantage of Cloudflare's Argo network for 'even faster' internet speeds. Everyone should expect to see WARP for macOS and Windows go public sometime in the next few months. There's no ETA yet, but Cloudflare wants to release the software more quickly on desktop than it did on mobile -- it took the company roughly five months to release the WARP 1.1.1.1 add-on to the world.
If you want to be among the first to gain access to the beta, you can sign up for the WARP desktop wait list right here using your email address.
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