Yeah, it was a couple of months ago. It looks like they are blacklisting by IP addresses, so, in theory, any affected VPN could change their servers and get new IP addresses and it’ll go back to working again.
I was less annoyed by the blocking of Netflix (although, usually, I was using a server in my country, so it was pretty obvious that I wasn’t trying to get around their region locking) than the CAPTCHA-style BS to access other sites. I was learning how to read “enter the text below” in more and more languages…