Sorry for dredging up this Thread but....
I tried again this Year to subscribe to GCN+ but the page still won't load, I was able to find good Email to get my Questions answered, it turns out for whatever reason in the U.S. you are restricted to the APP and as I said I can't and Won't get a Smartphone (for my own reasons Cost being one) but in between the lines I might be able to use a VPN (I have one on this older laptop and added Norton Utilities which has some things which cleaned and sped up this machine and a VPN set at this time to U.S.), but a I said reading between the lines if I were to set to a European Country, someone mentioned that they had subscribed on a laptop there. Are their any complications with making a payment using another countries Web page to subscribe. Maybe if it's available use Paypal. I don't know if an attempt to pay from another country would be flagged by my own card.
Please Help if your are in a European country, I believe GCN is based in England, so any advice would be appreciated. You might be able to access and bring up the page over there and not make a payment to see if the page loads correctly.
Thanks In Advance