Apple, 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.
If VPN usage becomes the norm, sites will have to give in eventually.
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.
I also assume being a service that requires an expensive device and that the browsing happen through Safari limits the abuse somewhat.
Socks5 proxy addresses can be found here: https://mullvad.net/en/servers
You need to prefix them with 'socks://'.