Chrome stops working with private relay enabled

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Chrome stops working with private relay enabled

Dear Community,

when I activate private relay on my m1 MacBook Air with macOS 12.1, some websites stop loading in chrome. If I deactivate private relay, all websites load fine, but the moment I activate it again, the problem reemerges. I have already uninstalled chrome and deleted googles application support folder, but to no avail.

Does anybody else have the same issue? (I saw this issue: Unable to access websites on Chrome/Firefox when Private Relay is enabled, but the answer doesn't say anything about the issue and I can't reply to that topic anymore)

Thanks in advance

MacBook Air (2020 or later)

Posted on Jan 21, 2022 5:58 AM

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etresoft

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Jan 21, 2022 6:17 AM in response to relatable

iCloud Private Relay is only designed for Safari. If you are using Chrome, keep iCloud Private Relay turned off.

You can use a VPN instead. Just be careful, most VPNs are scams, some are malware. This is the primary benefit to Apple’s service. There are some good VPNs, but good luck finding them them.

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relatable Author

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Jan 21, 2022 6:21 AM in response to etresoft

Thank you for your answer, but I am not looking into using iCloud Private Relay on Chrome. I would like to use iCloud Private Relay in Safari and nothing in Chrome.

Right now, I have to go into the settings to disable iCloud Private Relay each time that I want to use it in safari and disable it afterwards, such that I can use chrome again. That's not a nice solution, so I'm asking whether more people have seen this behaviour and maybe found a fix for it.

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etresoft

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Jan 21, 2022 7:42 AM in response to relatable

relatable wrote:

Thank you for your answer, but I am not looking into using iCloud Private Relay on Chrome. I would like to use iCloud Private Relay in Safari and nothing in Chrome.

I don't know if you have that option. Apple has hooked iCloud Private Relay into HTTP networking at a low-level. It is so low that Chrome might be going through it, but not low enough that other apps, like virtual machines, will use it.

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