<![CDATA[VPN set to Americas but location seen as Russia by Google]]>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.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/88435/vpn-set-to-americas-but-location-seen-as-russia-by-googleRSS for NodeTue, 07 Apr 2026 15:55:07 GMTSat, 04 Apr 2026 18:00:55 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to VPN set to Americas but location seen as Russia by Google on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:37:41 GMT]]>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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