All VPN countries via Ukraine

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Try deleting third part data. Also empty cache and delete related cookies.

[pitriago]

pitriago last edited by

I'll try deleting third party data and report but I'm not hopeful it will solve the problem because:

• The browser is set to delete cookies & cache on browser exit and
• It happens with the Opera browsers on all my 5 computers.

BTW, Opera updated to version 46.0.2597.57 after I posted this question and the problem persist

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

The browser is set to delete cookies & cache on browser exit

How?

Anyway, third part data is not related to cache and cookies necessarily.

[pitriago]

pitriago last edited by

As I foresaw, It didn't do anything. Everything google is directed thru Ukraine when the VPN is enabled even after all third party data, cookies & browser history were manually deleted.

As for how the browser deletes cookies on exit:

Settings/Basic/Cookies/Keep local data only until I quit my browser

The setting is doubled and can also be found at

Settings/Privacy & Security/Cookies/Keep local data only until I quit my browser

I wonder if all this mess might have anything to do with Opera using Yandex.ru for some of its tasks

[ccsimenson]

ccsimenson last edited by

In addition to the problem described above, I have found logins on Facebook from Iran and China. More than a bit alarming since the US is currently having serious issues with both countries.

[pauljetfuel]

pauljetfuel last edited by

I'm having the same issue except when i use netherlands then it doesnt go to .ua

[ladelfa]

ladelfa last edited by

This is happening to me also, same symptoms as yours. I first noticed this about a week ago (~ July 18 2017) when I tried to go to www.google.com and saw a page full of Cyrillic characters.

Is all our traffic going through the Ukraine now? :-p It makes me very distrustful of Opera browser as a whole.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Is all our traffic going through the Ukraine now?

Well, it's not happening here so I guess the answer is no.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

In addition to the problem described above, I have found logins on Facebook from Iran and China

And those logins happened while you were using Opera with VPN turned on? I don't think they have servers on those countries so maybe it's not related to the VPN?

[terriblepie]

terriblepie last edited by

This is happening to me as well. I'm an Opera user in the US using the built-in VPN. The virtual location I selected is "United States" so this is perplexing. When I attempt to use Google products, my traffic is routed through a server in Ukraine. A ."ua" is added to the end of google.com, and the text menus in Google Drive are in Ukrainian. I've been able to replicate this on multiple computers.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Me too - Ukraine.. While should be de/nl

[karbuf40]

karbuf40 last edited by

Absolutely! Google is in Cyrilic! This has been going on for at lease 2-3 months. I have noticed that me email "Junk" has increased tremendously in the last month - especially ones from foreign countries.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

And the VPN is set to?

I have a site in my bookmarks which will list my headers, I'll try it when I'm done here.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Google from the address bar does go to www.google.ua (Ukraine), but there is nothing in my headers saying that is where I am. As listed on several sites I checked, my headers are

Host	www.procato.com
Connection	close
User-Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) 
  Chrome/61.0.3153.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/48.0.2670.0 (Edition developer)
Accept	*/*
Accept-Language	en-US,en;q=0.8
Referer	http://www.procato.com/my+headers/
Accept-Encoding	gzip

(The site listed in Referer is the one I copied this from.)

So apparently Google is just presuming people using the Opera VPN are Ukrainian.

[blackbird71]

blackbird71 last edited by

One thought is that, depending on how/where DNS lookup is being performed in all the generation and handshaking and relaying of the VPN traffic, there might be a glitch (or poisoning?) that is sending traffic routing to the Google .ua site rather than the desired one.