Earlier this year, under pressure from Russian authorities, Apple seemingly removed a host of popular VPN apps from its app store. Seen as an attempt by Russia at censorship, one of the best VPN providers as well as other heavy hitters in the VPN world have signed an open letter imploring Apple to reverse its decision.
Using a Russia VPN to get news from outside state-owned sources and securely access the internet in the country has long been common practice in Russia but the Putin regime is not a fan of this. Attempts have been made to ban VPNs in Russia for a while, but it was July's crackdown specifically that the open letter is referring to.
