VPN set to Americas but location seen as Russia by Google
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dclakes last edited by
I have my VPN on and set to Americas, with bypass search engines off, but google.com sees my location as Russia. If I take the extra step of going into Google search settings and set my location to United States, then it sees my location as Unknown. I think with unknown I am getting the results from North America that I am looking for, but still, this is a strange behavior (from Google Search) because if I switch my VPN region to Europe it correctly sees my location as The Netherlands, and if I switch it to Asia it correctly sees it as Indonesia, regardless of my search settings.
Has anyone had similar issues or can anyone shed some light on this issue? It's not an Opera issue because the VPN is working fine (IP address in Ashburn, VA) but still, this unexpected behavior from Google is breaking or at least causing some issues to Opera's VPN, which is an otherwise great feature.
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dclakes last edited by
Forgot to mention that I have the same issue on my Windows PC and my Android phone, which is why I thought other users may also be affected, and I am currently located in a EU country in eastern Europe.
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Swaggysoda last edited by
@dclakes I'm also having the same problems too and I don't have the VPN enabled which is extremely concerning and this is also happening on my android.
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dclakes last edited by dclakes
Data saver no, I never use it. Do you also get a different country, far away from your IP address?
I just tested the VPN with microsoft com and it works just fine. When the IP address is in the US (77.111.246.51) I get the US site, when the VPN is set to Europe the Dutch site and so on. It's only Google and YouTube so far that ignore the IP address from the VPN and set my location to Russia, and by the way I am nowhere near Russia (like 1000 km away).