> usually by tricking victims into diverting their own traffic
What does this mean practically? Getting a VPN profile installed ?
Make the web unusable unless you're protected by your "DDOS" protection, offer a free service to solve the problem. Or provide a free service with as little friction to start replacing private/internal networking with, ideally with wide platform support. Or provide some sort of alternative "private" altnet, promising anonymity and access to clearnet via some sort of gateways, specifically for murky stuff.
No, the simplest (but far from the only) example is DNS injection.