Yeah, this is never helpful. I end up just opening in Apple News because I pay for it despite Edgesuite giving me an Access Denied due to my VPN. It’s all a big mess.

I’ve worked at McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, and Taco John’s and out of all of them McDonald’s has the most efficient systems. As long as management follows the policies it should be easy to run a McDonald’s. Keep in mind this means a lot of stuff is prepared ahead of time: tomatoes, onions, etc. are pre-sliced before it ever reaches the store (Burger King and Wendy’s are more “fresh” in this regard).

Wendy’s was pretty good too, but Burger King had the worst setup I’ve seen. The restaurants are just not set up for efficiency and it doesn’t take much to start having long wait times.

It seems to be “blocked” via DNS because they’re just rewriting the DNS record to point to their server (which is displaying the message). It makes me wonder if the actual IP address is indeed really blocked.

Is this easily bypassed via DoH or DoT?

I use Home Assistant as my “main” smart home server then have HomeKit on iOS, macOS connect to it.

You don’t need Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft involved at all if you don’t want to. In fact, with Matter it’s easier than ever to get away from Big Tech.