No one seems to be talking about this situation going on but it's going on.
I've used VPNs for about a decade now for all my browsing both on my phone and home computer. The amount of counter measures I've seen against VPNs in the last year has grown astronomically. It has quite obviously become a target by big tech companies and government but instead of banning VPNs, it appears the strategy they're going for is to make them so unwieldy to use that people voluntarily stop using them or just don't start. It's coercion, similar to what we saw during COVID to force vaccines.
5 years ago, you could access the whole internet with a VPN without issues. Now, every website you go to it seems wants you to confirm you're human which can take a few seconds or a few minutes depending (significantly interrupting your browsing experience). Furthermore, many websites straight up don't even work with a VPN either.
The Judeo-Establishment will tell you this is needed to stop hackers and bots but this isn't true at all because sophisticated hacker/scamming groups have so many other ways to secure themselves. It's only the average person in the public who is being harmed which means they're the true targets. The government wants everyone's data and they aren't going to let VPNs stop them.
We should honestly make it a law for any organization to discriminate against connections from people using a VPN and those who aren't.
VPN's are illegal in China but everyone there uses them.