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Comment by Imustaskforhelp 5 months ago

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But isn't that apple id + privacy relay as well.

I think you have misread things. They aren't comparing private relay with tor but rather with obscura for which the answer is a yes

ignoramous 5 months ago

> But isn't that apple id + privacy relay as well

For authentication? Yes.

Private Relay has Tor-like guarantees (with 2 hops) baked into the protocol, as it uses anonymous authorization tokens (which can't be tied to Apple IDs they represent) at exit node.

https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/iCloud_Private_Relay_Over...

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