Privacy concerns aside, without running VPN half of the "allowed" (i.e. not explicitly banned) Western Internet is completely unusable thanks to Google CDN, Goo

Privacy concerns aside, without running VPN half of the "allowed" (i.e. not explicitly banned) Western Internet is completely unusable thanks to Google CDN, Google Fonts, Facebook Retargeting, Twitter panels etc. any of which stall the loading forever and the content never shows in Safari / Mobile Chrome. Many hybrid apps are unusable as well. Thankfully they didn't remove manual VPN configuration. Just made it all even more inconvenient.