VPN does not hide my location
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blackbird71 last edited by@esebm said in VPN does not hide my location:
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What I still don't understand is why my home town popped up yesterday and what I can do to prevent any kind of leakage.If you've changed nothing at your end, it's possible that something temporarily malfunctioned in either your Opera installation or Opera's VPN server which caused the traffic to not route properly thru the VPN. If you were in a censored country, it might also be possible that there was some man-in-the-middle interception going on by the ISP or national firewall, but that certainly isn't likely to be the case at a location in the Lone Star State.
Just to be on the safe side, I'd bookmark one or several of the leakage-test sites and retest with the VPN from time to time to see if the problem recurs (and if so, with what periodicity).
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A Former User last edited by
Just checked the leakage test sites and all 3 of them show my hometown and my real IP address. VPN is on, set to Europe.
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andrew84 last edited by andrew84
I tried site https://whatismyipaddress.com. It doesn't show my real location(Eastern Europe) with VPN on but shows incorrect regions which were selected in VPN settings.
- I select 'Optimal location' ->hit refresh-> it shows me Country Iran
- I select 'Europe' -> hit refresh-> it shows me Country Iran again
- I select 'Americas' ->hit refresh-> it doesn't text any info(I see only ISP Opera Software AS and Services Network Sharing Device). But on the graphical map red dot is on the Switzerland.
- I select 'Asia' ->hit refresh-> it shows me Country France.
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A Former User last edited by
Tried the same site and it shows my real location and my real IP address.
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A Former User last edited by
I tried a private window, VPN set to the Americas, all 3 test sites show a European location.
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A Former User last edited by
No, not my real IP and not my real location.
Can this private window thing be set as default? -
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A Former User last edited by
I have disabled my extensions (LastPass, Open in pdf reader, tabs to the front) and the leak test sites still show my real location/ip address.
Don't know how to disable flash. -
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A Former User last edited by
I think I'll leave things as they are right now and use private windows every now and then.
Thanks to all y'all for your input.
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A Former User last edited by
I was trying to try one last thing, disable Flash.
I browsed through the settings half a dozen times, basic and advanced but couldn't find anything flash related. -
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A Former User last edited by
OK, found it, thanks!
Checked the 3 leak-test sites (VPN set to the Americas), all 3 placing me into Europe (Vaduz, Unknown location, Russia). Not ideal but, at least, not my home town in Texas. Guess, I have to live with that.
Thanks again for all the help.
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A Former User last edited by
Worked for a few days.
Now VPN is back to show my true location (set to the Americas or Europe) no difference. -
blackbird71 last edited by
@esebm said in VPN does not hide my location:
Worked for a few days.
Now VPN is back to show my true location (set to the Americas or Europe) no difference.If you try https://ipleak.net/ without your VPN enabled, you should get your own IP address. If you enable VPN and retry ipleak, do you get a different IP? If so, once again, something else is leaking the location information from your system. If not, then something is wrong with the VPN.
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A Former User last edited by
When I turned my PC on this morning (VPN on) the ipleak site displayed my true location. Turned VPN off, still my true location, obviously.
However, when I turned VPN on again, ipleak showed my location in Europe. Apparently, VPN does not work automatically after boot-up but only when triggered OFF and ON again.
