One problem with this approach is that the systems underpinning many of the still-accessible sites are likely still located in the US. CDNs like Cloudflare or F

One problem with this approach is that the systems underpinning many of the still-accessible sites are likely still located in the US. CDNs like Cloudflare or Fastly may make them look like they're coming from a local point of presence, but the data is still somewhere else entirely. Some sites are good about having a split between "www." (static assets, which can go behind a CDN) and "api." (requests which are live and mostly uncacheable), some aren't - so the data is just being proxied.