I’m surprised the average kid has the nous to set up a VPN, honestly. Doing it has always seemed like a proper faff.
They're not spinning up servers and configuring OpenVPN or whatever, copying certificates to their client device. (Even that is pretty easy with Wireguard though.)
Don't need the average kid to be able to, you just need the average kid to have access to a peer who can do so for them. Which is quite reasonable.
(It’s actually harder than that, since kids in different high schools communicate with each other.)
And that'll need to stop. For the children. Won't somebody please think of the children.
Downloading an app to your phone is easy. And it's crazy cheap for most of these services. If not free and they mine what you're visiting or use you as a node in their scraping system.