TITAM - Technical issues that affected me

Note: this affects ONLY the situation where you have a gift card FROM YOUR COUNTRY and are actually IN YOUR COUNTRY.  If you want a means to redeem a foreign card, or redeem a domestic card while in another country, look elsewhere.    This issue popped up recently on Google Play. Location services were off, but turning them back on did not help. What did work was turning off Wi-Fi and completing the transaction over mobile data. This might work for other countries, I don't know.

  As of Nov 14, it appears PIA has stopped working again: Play Store not working (on some devices, OK on others) YouTube not working (on some devices, OK on others) Can't connect to BBC.com, CNN.com, but can connect to most other sites fine Smart home devices offline (ecobee, Honeywell, etc)  Honeywell Home: Endless loading Of course, nothing changed on my end, and everything works just fine outside of PIA.  Mobiles also work outside of router-based PIA with the PIA app. See here for the original saga.  Seems they can't keep their network stable for more than 3 months at a time now.  Awesome stuff, those Next-Gen servers - a real improvement! Strangely, the new problems are not as widespread or consistent as before.  One device has no YouTube, but others do.  One device can't access CNN or BBC, but others do.  A third device has no Play Store, but others do. One constant is the smart home devices.  As before, they are connected, but cannot re...