They will google it and find a forum result somewhere that says "If you have iCloud, try turning off Private Relay. This solved the problem for me!" followed by a dozen other people saying 'Thanks so much, this fixed it for me too!"
At least, it would if their Etsy accounts weren't getting locked until they can contact support.
That said, the Etsy app won't be subject to Private Relay, so if the functionality is there then a lot of users won't have to worry about it as much.
> In iOS 15 and macOS 12, Private Relay will apply to all web browsing in Safari, all DNS name resolution queries, and a small subset of traffic from apps.
> Specifically, this will include all insecure HTTP traffic, such as TCP port 80.
This implies that app traffic won't apply to HTTPS traffic, which supports my assertion, but then later in the video:
> Not all networking done by your app occurs over the public internet, so there are several categories of traffic that are not affected by Private Relay.
> Any connections your app makes over the local network or to private domain names will be unaffected.
> Similarly, if your app provides a network extension to add VPN or app-proxying capabilities, your extension won't use Private Relay and neither will app traffic that uses your extension.
> Traffic that uses a proxy is also exempt.
So this says that HTTPS traffic will be included, which disproves my assertion, and seems more likely to be true.
Yeah, they are not being very clear, which is nothing new for Apple. But usually, you get closest to the truth if you look at what their intent is, and in this case, the intent is to limit the ability to track users, and there is no reason they would make a distinction between web users and app users there.
