<![CDATA[VPN does not hide my location]]>Hi, I'm on Opera 56...99 /win 10.
My VPN is set to the Americas and I keep seeing ads that refer to my real location. How is that possible?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/29638/vpn-does-not-hide-my-locationRSS for NodeThu, 14 May 2026 01:26:36 GMTWed, 14 Nov 2018 17:43:40 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Mon, 14 Jan 2019 20:57:15 GMT]]>@nigelkurt71

Re: VPN does not hide my location

I tried a new test and it works just fine.

I turned on my Opera VPN and then I opened up Ublock Origan Extension and activated
Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP addresses.

So then I went to Whats is my IP Address and it did Not show my ISP or my location, but instead it said my ISP was Opera Mini Proxy and it showed me the location in Europe somewhere, So I looked into the IP and it shows me Services: Network sharing device or Proxy Server Type Wireless Broadband with Static IP Assignment. Therefore, it tells me I'm connected to Opera VPN via my Computer, and that WebRTC is not leaking my IP of my Real location.

Hope this info helps

Regards

Nigel

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/162589https://forums.opera.com/post/162589Mon, 14 Jan 2019 20:57:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Mon, 14 Jan 2019 20:05:34 GMT]]>True it don't However, When you connect to a VPN it does make a Virtual Private Network from your Computer to the VPN. On how it knows your Location is down to the IP address that your ISP issues you.
So that is how it knows the info of things in your location.

You can use hid my ip, or similar to get a private browsing experience.

I tried a test on my computer. I changed DNS, to Cloudflare and I turned on Opera VPN, and ran what is my ip address and it showed my ISP and my location. I tried a new test and turned off Opera VPN and Refreshed Browser and ran the same test. It shows me the same info.

Regards

Nigel

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/162587https://forums.opera.com/post/162587Mon, 14 Jan 2019 20:05:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Sat, 01 Dec 2018 23:11:36 GMT]]>Although Opera has VPN (make sure you understand that it is in use for ONLY Opera browsing), my sure fire VPN solution is to have bought a VPN utility for my Windows 7 laptop, cost is minimal and blocks my IP address for ALL my programs that use the internet on my computer. I use Easy-Hide-IP VPN, costs me about $47 for 6 months.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/160038https://forums.opera.com/post/160038Sat, 01 Dec 2018 23:11:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Sat, 01 Dec 2018 20:53:50 GMT]]>@esebm Once again, what matters in VPN usage terms is whether the VPN's IP address or your IP address appear when visiting a test site like https://ipleak.net/ , since the IP address is really all that a VPN necessarily masks. Whether any other things like OS geolocation (native or enabled in the browser) or stored browser cookies can be used by a site to infer one's location is unrelated to the VPN operation. In other words, it's a VPN issue only if using it is allowing your IP address to leak through... the other locator elements are unrelated to the VPN. Hence, this is why I keep asking which IP address (yours or the VPN's) is appearing in the ipleak tests, particularly when your location is not being fully masked.

If something besides the IP address is leaking your true (or nearby) location, it's not the VPN; and you then have to track down and kill it at the source, whether leakage by WebRTC or cookies or whatever else a website's Javascript might be able to snoop off your machine.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/160033https://forums.opera.com/post/160033Sat, 01 Dec 2018 20:53:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Sat, 01 Dec 2018 15:52:48 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/160003https://forums.opera.com/post/160003Sat, 01 Dec 2018 15:52:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Fri, 30 Nov 2018 22:21:45 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159973https://forums.opera.com/post/159973Fri, 30 Nov 2018 22:21:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Fri, 30 Nov 2018 19:49:48 GMT]]>Worked for a few days.
Now VPN is back to show my true location (set to the Americas or Europe) no difference.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159948https://forums.opera.com/post/159948Fri, 30 Nov 2018 19:49:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:17:45 GMT]]>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.
Ed

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159250https://forums.opera.com/post/159250Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:17:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Tue, 20 Nov 2018 18:53:21 GMT]]>Here: opera://settings/content/flash

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159246https://forums.opera.com/post/159246Tue, 20 Nov 2018 18:53:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Tue, 20 Nov 2018 18:47:10 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159243https://forums.opera.com/post/159243Tue, 20 Nov 2018 18:47:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:58:49 GMT]]>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.
Ed

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159221https://forums.opera.com/post/159221Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:58:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Tue, 20 Nov 2018 15:39:29 GMT]]>You can disable Flash in settings.

Did you already try with a clean profile!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159213https://forums.opera.com/post/159213Tue, 20 Nov 2018 15:39:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Tue, 20 Nov 2018 15:25:20 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159212https://forums.opera.com/post/159212Tue, 20 Nov 2018 15:25:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Tue, 20 Nov 2018 00:10:18 GMT]]>Do you use any extension? If so, disable them all and then enable one by one until find the extension causing the problem.

Also try disabling Flash.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159188https://forums.opera.com/post/159188Tue, 20 Nov 2018 00:10:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Mon, 19 Nov 2018 22:20:47 GMT]]>Is there any way to find out what would cause it?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159187https://forums.opera.com/post/159187Mon, 19 Nov 2018 22:20:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Mon, 19 Nov 2018 22:08:24 GMT]]>I don't think so. But if it works in private window then some extension or setting is causing the problem in the normal window.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159185https://forums.opera.com/post/159185Mon, 19 Nov 2018 22:08:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:37:03 GMT]]>No, not my real IP and not my real location.
Can this private window thing be set as default?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159184https://forums.opera.com/post/159184Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:37:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:17:13 GMT]]>This is kinda expected and already discussed several times here.

So it doesn't show your real IP?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159181https://forums.opera.com/post/159181Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:17:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:58:33 GMT]]>I tried a private window, VPN set to the Americas, all 3 test sites show a European location.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159178https://forums.opera.com/post/159178Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:58:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:25:25 GMT]]>The result is the same in a private window?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159173https://forums.opera.com/post/159173Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:25:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:48:19 GMT]]>Tried the same site and it shows my real location and my real IP address.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159163https://forums.opera.com/post/159163Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:48:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:42:57 GMT]]>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.

  1. I select 'Optimal location' ->hit refresh-> it shows me Country Iran
  2. I select 'Europe' -> hit refresh-> it shows me Country Iran again
  3. 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.
  4. I select 'Asia' ->hit refresh-> it shows me Country France.
]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159161https://forums.opera.com/post/159161Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:42:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:25:38 GMT]]>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.
Changed the setting to the Americas, same thing.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/159157https://forums.opera.com/post/159157Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:25:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VPN does not hide my location on Fri, 16 Nov 2018 21:23:06 GMT]]>@esebm said in VPN does not hide my location:

....
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).

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/158998https://forums.opera.com/post/158998Fri, 16 Nov 2018 21:23:06 GMT