That‘s like my bank saying „Hey, use our new website, the old one will be phased out in 6 werks“.

Me: „Ok, show me my bank statements“.

Bank: „That‘s only possible on the old site“.

Not a joke, sadly.

Me, after the latest iOS update slows my aging iPad by another 20%: 🤷‍♂️

Yup. What are they gonna do that every other portscanning bad actor isn’t doing 24/7 already?

Also, how would they distinguish between my private VPN and that of a commercial provider?

Obviously the first ad links in google don’t work any more, which drives the wife crazy ;-) Also nowadays more and more websites complain about me using an adblocker.

But technically, not really any problems at all.

Agreed. My iPhone connects to my home VPN via Wireguard as soon as I leave my home WiFi. Has the added benefit of pihole ad filtering everywhere.