Cannot access amazon.com with PIA up

NYGiantsFan61NYGiantsFan61
in General VPN Support
I've tried just about everything, changing every setting, but it seems that amazon dot com is blocking my connections if PIA is active. I'm not trying to access their streaming video or music, just the regular shopping site. I have tried OpenVPN and Wireguard. 
Windows 10/64, PIA client 2.5.1 (and those before it, same issue for the past couple of months), All browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera) and on two different PCs...desktop and a Dell laptop. There is NO condition where I can access amazon.com with PIA engaged.

Comments

  • avensis18avensis18
    edited January 20
    So you have no choice, you have to deactivate PIA when you log into this site.
  • motox22amotox22a
    edited December 2020
    So I just tested this...
    I use Primarily Silicon Valley as a entry point (Configured on the router)...
    You leave Silicon Valley on COGENT or PERFORMIVE (Performive is newish)...
    When connected via PERFORMIVE I also could not access Amazon.com.
    I rebooted my router to try and get on COGENT...Luckily it did...And immediately
    I was able to go to Amazon.com without issue. Can't say exactly what is the issue (Seems too simple to be IPs)...
    In my case this new PERFORMIVE is NOT as good as a COGENT connection (And this demonstrates that).
    It could be a routing issue (Which may be the OP's issue as well)...
  • ubuntubluesubuntublues
    Same. Amazon support says they are not blocking VPN at all, but I cannot login to any amazon page from California. Los Vegas works. Then Amazon consistently notifies me I'm logging in from Orange Free State, South Africa. Twitter notification says the normal login from Los Vegas, a direct contradiction.
  • p8476349p8476349
    Same, been like this for a few weeks, for Amazon Store (Prime Video usually works), using US East, NYC, Washington DC, and Florida. Disable the VPN, flush DNS and everything works again. What happened to thousands of new servers, so many exit points? I just reupped after trialing Mullvad and now I'm worried I'm in for a year of no access.
  • ubuntubluesubuntublues
    Now it is doing it from Los Vegas.

    When: Dec 31, 2020 09:51 PM South Africa Standard Time
    Device: Mozilla Firefox Windows (Desktop)
    Near: Orange Free State, South Africa
    Amazon Logo Image

    Sign-in

    George,

    Someone signed-in to your account.


  • motox22amotox22a
    edited January 14
    So it appears that this situation with AMAZON still persists...
    I woke up this morning to find I could not get to the AMAZON website...
    The browser would simply timeout after a while.
    I checked and I was on PERFORMIVE (Silicon Valley Routing)...
    As PERFORMIVE has had problems in the past with AMAZON
    I rebooted my router (PIA OVPN on ROUTER) in order to get on COGENT.
    I got on to COGENT...But unlike in the past I could still not get to AMAZON.
    I disabled the VPN on the router and IMMEDIATELY could get to AMAZON.COM.
    I enabled the VPN again and wound up on PEFORMIVE (again)...Could not get
    to Amazon. After a few more reboots of the router I was back on COGENT with
    a different IP...And now I could get to AMAZON. So what I found this morning
    was that even getting back onto COGENT was not a guarantee of being able to
    get to AMAZON...It was combination of getting on to COGENT and getting
    an IP that evidently was OK with AMAZON...So it appears that AMAZON may be
    blocking IPs (again). This is the problem of being on a VPN where you have people
    doing nefarious activity and then getting IPs banned which affects others who
    have done nothing (Google was problematic the other day as well)...
    It's too bad but a few bad actors mess it up for the majority...Just the way it is
    it seems with VPNs........
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