# Cloudflare WARP

18 Hacker News commenters recommended Cloudflare WARP and 10 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free app that routes your traffic through Cloudflare's network, used to get past blocked or broken sites. Critics say Cloudflare can see your traffic and the app has been buggy.

## Why people recommend it

- Gets past blocked or broken sites (7 comments): "just use a VPN or something like Cloudflare Wrap to change your ip - this should fix the issue." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46066961)) "I have been using Clouflare WARP successfully to bypass this block" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965128)) "I did manage with Cloudflare's WARP, now is called Cloudflare One" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768948))
- Used as a tunnel for SSH (2 comments): "one other trick it to use a cf warp tunnel to get v4" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866308)) "For SSH/Mosh, for example, I chose a WARP tunnel." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46180666))

## What people warn about

- Breaks some sites and webapps (4 comments): "Cloudflare Warp has been more of an issue for a small webapp I run than residential proxies." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49944059)) "if i turn off my vpn, it works, but the vpn is cloudflare's own WARP. strange" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799727)) "had to turn it off to access most of the websites i visit daily" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45964183))
- Cloudflare sees traffic; privacy concerns (4 comments): "By subletting their own IP addresses for navigation with warp, and their own domains for hosting of webcontent" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837549)) "allowing Cloudflare to terminate TLS seemed incongruent with self-hosting everything else" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46699381)) "it seems like WARP is also a vpn-like service, just a cloud one" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183544))
- Buggy, vibecoded app (2 comments): "suffered a similar downgrade recently when it went from a nifty menubar app on macOS to a vibecoded window built with flutter" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868005)) "still had insane bugs such as randomly wiping its entire configuration on OS reboot" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868380))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Mullvad VPN](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mullvad-vpn.md): 255 recommend
- [Proton VPN](https://hackerapproved.com/p/proton-vpn.md): 63 recommend
- [iCloud Private Relay](https://hackerapproved.com/p/icloud-private-relay.md): 26 recommend
- [Firefox VPN](https://hackerapproved.com/p/firefox-built-in-vpn.md): 16 recommend
- [IVPN](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ivpn.md): 14 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://one.one.one.one/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Cloudflare WARP", https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-warp/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).