Seems like a reasonable personal story about how you use an ad-delivery platform like iOS (and is pretty close to what I do on all the platforms I use). But it has little to do with the rightness or otherwise of disallowing users from deciding which network connections their own device is permitted to attempt.
I am controlling what ads I see - I have an ad blocker that works in both the web browser and my RSS reader - ad blockers work in embedded SafariViewControllers - and I don’t bother with apps that don’t give me an option to remove ads.
But using a third party VPN that intercepts all of your internet traffic to protect your privacy seems like it’s defeating the purpose.
Especially seeing that third party content blockers on iOS have no access to your web browsing history.
