I concur, what's going on?

@leocg I realised I'm actually in the country where Aria is "unavailable", even if I changed Local State. This means the Aria backend additionally checks my IP or something like that and finds out I'm from the wrong country.

The questions stands: why does my location plays a role in this? This is Web, if I have to remind, it's global.

Is this just something people agreed upon "just because" and now we don't talk about it?

@leocg I understand. What rules do you mean is the question. Because FAQ just says "unavailable in these countries" without any "due to".

I understand that Opera isn't required to do that, but wouldn't it simply be polite?

@leocg I realised I'm actually in the country where Aria is "unavailable", even if I changed Local State. This means the Aria backend additionally checks my IP or something like that and finds out I'm from the wrong country.

The questions stands: why does my location plays a role in this? This is Web, if I have to remind, it's global.

Is this just something people agreed upon "just because" and now we don't talk about it?

@leocg We're talking about Opera restricting the access, which the error message indicates. I'm in one of the countries listed where Aria should be available.

@leocg Can you be more specific? What do they have to do with Opera? I didn't see any statements from the company. I'm also not aware of any ties to any governments with Opera.

Geo restrictions
One word: why?

That's nothing impressive. You can have anything in the sidebar of Vivaldi, Sidekick or Wavebox. And Chatsonic doesn't work. I don't even mention the tinkering you have to do to access the features if the browser doesn't like the country you're in (absurd?!).

Fix: https://forums.opera.com/topic/514/default-google-localization

@ammonya Thank you, this works.

@ammonya Can you please elaborate? What do you mean by the local state of the browser? Can you link one tutorial or at least help me to know what to search?

Facing the same issue. And support is basically non-existent.

https://forums.opera.com/topic/62498/everything-ai-related-is-gone

I wish Opera would be more informative about whether this is related to some kind of restrictions or a bug. What's the point in promoting features that don't work?