http://www.aljazeera.com/ will fail every time on a fresh boot, then connecting through a VPN that exits in my country will reload that page just fine.
Also, I’m pretty sure my Purebrowser is up to date, ran apt-update & upgrade (about page in PB doesn’t show version number?)
@Alex & @Dwaff thanks very much for the suggestions, I have a feeling that it might be the ISP, I’ll attempt some of the suggestions for the DNS Alex supplied.
Also @Alex, yes I’m also mainly a Windows user, though have taken the plunge and seeing if this can be a daily drive. Also, thanks for the lengthy post and help, you’re right about just trusting the VPN and not adding an extra company to trust via an external DNS entry.