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PIA servers in the Netherlands extremely slow, require a minute of Google captcha solving for a Google search
As the title says. My PIA experience is extremely bad after several years of use. It's gotten worse in the last couple of months. At this point I have to change servers to another country for a Google search or I'll be stuck solving impossible captchas for the next 2 minutes. Download speeds are also terrible compared to every single other server. Does anyone have the same experience?
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If you’re using a VPN, don’t use Google. Use StartPage, Whoogle, Searx, etc. Avoid the captcha thing. Using DDG is the best way to make sure no captchas.
Brazil servers have been captcha free lately. Also the US Dakota, Wyoming type servers are good,no captcha.
I haven't been able to use Google search with PIA for over a year now, Google always identifies PIA as suspicious or "unusual" traffic for any search at all .
Same experience in the Netherlands. I'm using the German Frankfurt servers now.
Frankfurt is my go-to as well, way more reliable and faster.
Same for me on the Dutch servers, EVERY google search requires several captcha for about 2 months so a month ago went with DDG
PIA has been terrible for me lately. I've been using it for years and have problems with it running slow and problems staying connected even.
Yes, same experience, also in the Netherlands… I paid for subscription until 2025, but it’s getting worse by the day. The Belgium VPN server isn’t working at all for the last couple of days.
Is there a way around the Google issue?
Stop using a VPN