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Fortunately I have a cisco router and enough knowledge to block the 17.0.0.0/8 ip address range. This combined with an openvpn vpn will block all apple services from my devices. So basically my internet will look like this:

Internet <---> CISCO <---> ASUS ROUTER with openvpn <-> Network The cisco router will block the 17.0.0.0/8 ip address range and I will use spotify on all my computers.

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Disregard comment I don't want to edit it because I am lazy. You can do all of this inside the asus router underneath the routes page just put this inside the asus router: Ip address 17.0.0.0 Subnet 255.0.0.0 Destination 127.0.0.1

You don't plan to ever use 4G/5G again?

I have openvpn so the block will remain in effect. I don't plan to use apple services ever again but the hard ware is pretty good.

Does this mean you are attempting to use an IP range block to avoid this "service" while continuing to use Apple hardware? How does such a block deal with say, Apple software conveniently "routing-around" what appears to be an "authoritarian government's firewall?"

And then they switch to using Akamai or AWS IP space (like Microsoft does), so you start blocking those as well?

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