I mean, it's obviously ineffective for the stated goal of proving authenticity to other users, so using a VPN must really be quite effective at tainting Twitter

I mean, it's obviously ineffective for the stated goal of proving authenticity to other users, so using a VPN must really be quite effective at tainting Twitter's data collection to let them go to such lows. And it's not just Twitter... VPNs seemingly really piss off a lot of data businesses. Quite the advertisement. And ironically going "bareback" now feels way more compromising than ever before.