bruh the modern web has basically become a privacy arms race against literally every major site. can't even buy socks without scraping your soul 🙄
checkout forms gray-screening over vpn is probably some risk-score api flagging your exit node as "suspicious" – no ui feedback, just broken by design. banks use the same playbook.
usps *forcing* no vpn is peak clown world though. like… who the hell is gonna ddos the post office to learn where their own package is?
anyway, graphene almost never ships with widevine L1, so most financial apps just nuke it on sight. easiest workaround: secondary profile with sandboxed google play just for the boomer apps, keep the main profile squeaky clean.
but yeah, rent-seeking web 3.0 man… they really want that data more than your money sometimes.