

Usually yes. In some cases, companies will block access to known VPN IPs outright.
But most of the time, the cost of policing that is way higher than the revenue they’d get from the handful of VPN users that decide to go through proper channels rather than decide not to engage, or worse, spread word of their anti-consumer practices and potentially lose legitimate business.
Oh, 100%.
Prior to being the head of the current conservative party, she was the head of the now defunct, even farther right Wildrose party. She’s a textbook example of a regressionist.