So yesterday was a weird day of:

a) Lamenting that web access is dependent on a few central services like Fastly.

b) Celebrating that iOS is going to pipe all web traffic through a VPN controlled by Apple.
(the VPN sounds good, and I imagine it could be disabled by the user in some way, but the juxtaposition was weird)
(I wonder if responses should pass a CORS check if the request was without credentials and everything went through the browser/OS VPN)

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