Whatever you do stay away from expressvpn. They had a guy in top leadership whose background involved intelligence, US at least. He ain’t retired, rest assured.
I had the same exact issues. I cancelled my PIA subscription. It’s not even good for gaming at least for me personally the ping fluctuates every few seconds and my internet is great I just don’t get it. I don’t recommend it.
Mullvad. Yeah it’s 5 euro per month but you don’t need to pay for 2-3 year. For me it is better.
And … well i didn’t have any capcha checks for weeks. Maybe just lucky.
I am from india, faced the same issue with pia. Switched to proton
Try TorGuard you won’t regret it
Same here been using piano exclusively for years but then I got stuck with nord VPN and stayed one day I was trying to use piano VPN it kept saying connected but wasn’t giving me a new ip only showing my actual ip so I try the 7 day trial with Nord and forgot to cancel and they charged for the year so i just dropped PIA and kept Nord and I like it so far
I’m trialling free Proton VPN. Yes it far slower, and features aren’t enabled… but set your devices custom DNS to a Mullvad and that a darn good no cost config for VPN and filter DNS.
Or even… Bing (runs for cover)