Google Outages Leave Phones Useless

Any anons been noticing the problems with Google services? I haven't been able to download a single app from Google Play in the last 24+ hours. Checking downdetector comments show dozens of other users who are having the same problem, have done every "troubleshooting" step to fix it, and nothing works.

People are reporting their entire phones are useless now because you can't download/update apps for banking, etc. and it's been going on off and on since 2/15 mostly, but with several similar cases going back to the end of January.

Strangely, using a VPN gets around it and allows app download, and others I've talked to it's hit or miss if theirs DL or not, but it appears to be IP specific. Is Google blacklisting anons?