alt Hacker NewsApple, for better or worse, has been able to use their size to pressure sites into accepting connections from their Private Relay service.
If VPN usage becomes the norm, sites will have to give in eventually.
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It’s not a VPN service in the usual sense, and does not allow you to change locations, and they also have a mapping of IP addresses and the served geographical users.
I also assume being a service that requires an expensive device and that the browsing happen through Safari limits the abuse somewhat.
Only one I have issues with is Ticketmaster, other than that I forget that it’s even on all the time
My bank app forces me to turn my VPN off. I’m not going to change my bank over that and I imagine most others do the same anyway or will eventually. I imagine many sites and services will just continue go “we’re gonna break this thing you need until you turn the vpn off.”
It’s better than most VPNs, but the amount of Cloudflare challenges I get is really annoying.
It’s a little weird because Apple has device attestation which is run via Cloudflare and Fastly. You’d think that would get you around the challenges, but that doesn’t seem to happen.