Unaffiliated cloaks
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-Unaffiliated cloaks take the form `unaffiliated/accountname`. They obscure your
-IP from casual observers, to a degree - but see the weaknesses section below.
+Unaffiliated cloaks take the form `unaffiliated/accountname`. They indicate that
+you are not affiliated with any specific project on freenode. They can also
+help obscure your IP from casual observers, to a certain degree - but see the
+weaknesses section below.
Gateway cloaks
Tor. Many, many users happily use IRC for decades, never hiding their IP
address, and do not have any problems.
+To re-iterate, the primary purpose of cloaks is to show your project affiliation,
+or lack thereof. "Hiding your IP" is not their primary purpose, and they cannot
+be fully relied upon to do that.
+
Requesting a cloak
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Once you've read and understood the above, if you would like an unaffiliated