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Re:Consolidation of the VPN industry spells trouble for the ... by greggman3 on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:19PM (#28578967)
I wonder if this will continue with Apple (and my guess is other similarly sized tech companies) offering VPN. In other words, shutting out Apple's VPN might mean losing 5-10% of your market? Probably not but it will certainly be a new situation for so many non-tech people to have easy access to a VPN and Apple likely pushing it as "good for your privacy"
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Re:Consolidation of the VPN industry spells trouble for the ... by judge2020 on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:47PM (#28579163)
Apple's VPN explicitly maps users to an IP with a [relatively] close IP address[0] (as in, for IP geolocation purposes), and does minimal actual proxying:

> In iOS 15 and macOS 12, Private Relay will apply to all web browsing in Safari, all DNS name resolution queries, and a small subset of traffic from apps.

> Specifically, this will include all insecure HTTP traffic, such as TCP port 80.

So I can see most services not needing to block iCloud Private Relay.

0: https://mask-api.icloud.com/egress-ip-ranges.csv

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Re:Consolidation of the VPN industry spells trouble for the ... by azalemeth on Saturday September 18, 2021 @06:40PM (#28580000)
At some point, we're going to have more and more users behind NAT and IP address looks even worse as a device for banning someone. Them making impossible journeys and changing country every five minutes, however, provides more useful information.
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