You pay a lot of money for a special contract, or you plug it into the internet. Whether from incompetence or malice, Microsoft would strongly prefer you did the latter.
This would be useful for many people who want to avoid AI features being forced on them by every piece of software imaginable. Hopefully, a centralized kill switch like this will also make it easy for Firefox forks such as Zen and Floorp to let users enable AI features if they want to without changing about:flags.
Closely tieing hardware and software instead of using unified OS images like on desktop, together with play "integrity" lock-in are the reasons why there are no security updates and software freedom on the mobile.
They probably know that the technology doesn't work this way. But such law will force websites to block ALL VPN connections even for users not from Wisconsin, and that's the plan.
Seems like an attempt to enforce government ID identification and destroy online anonymity to «protect the children», the very same way it's been done in Britain.
The most effective solution is to use X-ray/V2ray with VLESS, or VMESS, or Trojan as a protocol.
Another obfuscated solution is Amnezia
If you are not ready to set up your own VPN server and need any kind of connection right now, try Psiphon, but it's a proprietary centralized service and it's not the best solution.
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