If your computer was hot spotting to your phone and the phone was routing through a VPN’s server, the. amazon was seeing the known VPN server and blocking the IP it gave you
Last night something interesting/weird AF happened to me using nostr:nprofile1qqsw56sp4czhjnfaycxahguw872wjjan9t3pzct7cv2valt6s4frwmspz3mhxue69uhkzmn0dchxxmmdwp6hgetj9uq3uamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46z7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7xdr6sv nostr:nprofile1qqsdu74x8vw8aqylv6n8hhxjh4xf22sfe4fwuq0d0ke435ym4ktlssqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43z7qg6waehxw309aex2mrp0yh8x6rfw3nx7unrv5hx7mn99uq3kamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvdhkjmnxw4hxg6t59e3k7mf0klx4ca .
I had my VPN on my desktop as I always do and, at some point, I also connected my cellphone.
Then, I wanted to watch Amazon Prime on my desktop, so I got on, but the website blocked me with a message that I had to disconnect my VPN. It never does that. Never, regardless of the country.
I switch to several EU servers -- it would still block me. The weird part: I turned it off and even closed the VPN app completely, and it would still block me.
Then I realized... the cellphone. I turned the VPN off on my cellphone, and only then the website on my desktop let me in again.
Note that I wasn't running the Prime Video app, not even the Amazon app, on my cellphone.
This is completely FUCKED, in my opinion.