> I never asked them to do that in the first place, so I'll be blocking it from now on.
Apple's working on making sure you can't block it. They already keep you from blocking their own traffic with Little Snitch and similar tools: https://qht.co/item?id=24838816
I use adblockios and haven't upgraded because they unblocked the blocking. I keep hearing about charles, I wonder if it is special or if it doesn't really block everything.
Until they front it via cloudflare or aws. I got hit by AWS blocking when setting up a network in Russia for the 2018 World Cup - my unifi controller was on an ec2 instance that was blocked due to telegram shenanigans. Worked around the problem but shows that blocking an AS can lead towards an unusable computer.
You could block still block it externally by running a dns sinkhole (a la PiHole) on the same network, provided that you can still configure the DNS resolver.
I don’t think it’s actually just in Big Sur. At the bottom of this post describing how to stop them from hiding traffic, they mention someone did a test on Catalina and ran into an issue with the Messages app:
Apple's working on making sure you can't block it. They already keep you from blocking their own traffic with Little Snitch and similar tools: https://qht.co/item?id=24838816