 You guys ready? Three, two, one, go! Wow! Would you look at that! Now you probably couldn't tell, but the one in my right hand was a lot faster. I mean, not because the page actually came up any sooner, so it's not faster in a traditional sense, but because the speed was the same, and there was a bunch of extra stuff that it was doing in the background that would normally cause it to be slower, we're gonna call it faster. This technology is counter-intuitively called WARP, and if it's successful, it could fundamentally change the very structure of the internet as we know it. Ridge Wallet is the sleek way to keep wallet bulge down with its compact frame and RFID blocking interplates. Use offer code LINUS to save 10% and get free worldwide shipping at the link below. In 2018, Cloudflare launched their free 1.1.1.1 DNS service, which promised to make your internet both more secure and faster. Then they released the accompanying 1.app, which allows anyone to connect to the service just by tapping a single button on their smartphone for free. From our testing, 1. doesn't increase your raw download speeds, but it does on average make browsing the internet more responsive. If you haven't installed it, go grab it, and then the promise that I made to you in the video title is fulfilled. You can show your appreciation by heading to lttstore.com. But Cloudflare wasn't done. Recently, they updated the 1.app with their new WARP technology. So if you have the app already, it should be updated with WARP, meaning that you've already been experiencing a more secure internet connection. Great job. The question is, where did security enter the conversation? Well, Cloudflare's original goal for WARP was to both accelerate and secure their users' mobile data, all without burning any extra battery. According to their blog, that was harder than we anticipated. So they've pivoted a little, and WARP is now being pitched as the VPN for people who don't know what a VPN stands for. But calling it a VPN might lead to some confusion, because if you ask the average person what they think a VPN does, they'll probably say something like, It's what lets me watch Netflix from America! Or, It's what keeps the government from finding where I am. And they wouldn't be wrong. The key feature of most VPNs is their ability to mask your IP address, preventing websites from seeing your physical location and preventing your internet service provider from tracking your activities and selling your data to advertisers. But while WARP does encrypt traffic sent from your phone, it does not mask your IP address. So it's not a VPN then? Well... If that's how you define a VPN, then no, it's not. But Cloudflare thinks that the way we've all been thinking about virtual private networks is too small. Most people could benefit from encryption on all of their internet traffic, protecting against threats like man-in-the-middle data stealing attacks. But not everyone needs to mask their IP address. The other thing about VPNs that Cloudflare thinks we should reconsider is the fact that they often slow down your internet connection. The thing is, to hide your location, VPNs route your connection through servers that are in another physical location, sometimes halfway across the world. By the way, we're working on a video about making your own VPN get subbed. Anyway, that physical distance combined with encryption and security protocols that take time to work their magic translates to a more secure but slower connection. Now, Warp does these last two things, but Warp routes your traffic through Cloudflare's global server network, which is much more widespread than most VPN services, and they've taken a mobile-first approach to their design. You see, while most of the internet uses the Transmission Control Protocol, or TCP, Warp is built around a protocol based on UDP, or User Datagram Protocol, which can enable connections that are both faster and more resistant to dropouts. Warp also uses the WireGuard VPN Protocol, which is more modern and efficient than traditional options like OpenVPN and IPsec, which improves latency and battery usage. To top it all off, Cloudflare says Warp can even cache and compress content to improve your phone's performance and potentially decrease your data usage. Whew! So, Warp had a lot to live up to during our testing. Like last time, guys, we're not looking at speed in terms of megabits per second. We're looking at performance when it comes to page loading times. So then we can't use regular testing sites like speedtest.net. Instead, we have to directly compare the end-user experience loading websites on multiple devices. And we found that on our Wi-Fi here at the office, a Pixel 3 XL with the One.app and Warp enabled actually loaded sites slightly slower than one without it. When we signed up for Warp+, which costs $4 a month and uses Cloudflare's Argo Smart Routing Network, load times came up around equal with our non-Warp phone, but we still had some questions about these results. And Cloudflare's response was that people in developed countries with already blazing fast speeds, which is definitely us, are not likely to see speed increases using Warp. But where their technology apparently has a huge effect is in countries where the network infrastructure isn't as great. So this is where that fundamental structure of the internet thing comes back into play. Warp is a VPN, but one that doesn't mask your IP address. What it does is make your entire internet experience on mobile more secure by making sure that all the outgoing traffic is encrypted. 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