Are they required to keep the data?

Sure waste money on a VPN and just know itnis doing almost nothing for your privacy.
Since you know tracking people by IP is almost pointless these days wirhbyou know NAT and epically CGNAT.

They already are. Well depends on who they are I guess but someone is.

In America.

We let 5 companies control the internet. Instead of being the distributed thing it was dreamed up to be we allowed it to consolidate.

For what?//can’t even make a call on it as 2g is shut off or well be Shirley depending whee you live.

I mean if they break the law there should be some consequences.

American ones it seems like. American politicians sure love Israel for some reason.

Good it should be as what VPNs claim they do is fucking stupid. And if people are dumb enough to think that blocking their IP protects them from tracking then they I don’t know let them spend money on a VPN. I mean tracking IPs hasn’t been reliable in a long time.

Depends I just have a proxy and open port 443. Its not wide open but open enough that others can use it. I geo block have IP lists filter through it and suricata. Or use a VPN if others don’t need access.

What is the choice. Apple?

YouTube lose would be a blow. All the knowledge there that would be lost is massive. And nobody is going to replace it.