The problem being reported hear is a VPN provider (or their firewall rules?) aren’t interacting well with what is fundamentally another firewall/vpn.
I’m not sure what the usual expected behavior is when you have multiple conflicting vpn+firewall products?
Also as far as I can make out private relay isn’t a vpn? It protects http[s], and for https I don’t know if it operates outside of safari?
I appreciate the fancy language conspiracy nonsense, but please look at actual facts:
* this is not free - it is part of the paid iCloud services afaik
* it is opt in - you have to decide you want to use this, they’re not just hoovering everything, which gets to
* even if they were hoovering everything, unlike a vpn, private relay is actually private
If you are trying to conceal yourself, VPNs services are routinely found to be logging what they say they aren’t, and fundamentally all traffic through a VPN can be logged by them. Private relay is strictly better privacy guarantees for connections that go through it rather than the VPN.
This provider points out a reasonable issue: they have added rules to simply block some connections entirely, and it seems like PR should respect that - but as I said above, I don’t know what the usual expected behaviour for operating multiple VPNs and firewalls concurrently is?
finally apple documents explicitly how you can disable iCPR completely, regardless of user setting.