@leocg

Look, all I am saying is that currently Opera is offering something that is not working as advertised by Opera. That is not good. And I am unable to see why do we even need to discuss it. Things should work as advertised. An Americas IP should work as an Americas IP or it should not be advertised as an Americas IP.

Opera should do whatever it needs to do so that the IP's that Opera offers as belonging to certain region are actually recognized as belonging to that region (not to a different region). Others seem to be able to do exactly that.

@leocg If that was the only purpose, why would Opera offer a regional choice for VPN IP's? To protect the user's "true IP", a regional choice is not needed. Opera offers the region choice because they know that many users are interested in region-specific IP's.

Unfortunately that is not working, for whatever reasons. Since Opera does offer the regions, it would be best that they do whatever needed so that regional IP's are recognized as such by everyone involved (alternatively, they may just not offer the regions at all, and let everyone know that only European IP's are available). Other free proxy servers seem to be able to offer true regional IP's, without the problem under discussion.

@leocg We are using the IP address assigned to us by Opera. In fact we cannot change it (we can only specify the region). If those IP location services for whatever reasons "think" that the Americas IP addresses provided by Opera are located somewhere in Europe something is definitely wrong. The party that can and should address this is Opera. We as users can do nothing whatsoever about it. And this renders ineffective Opera VPN service for the purpose of geolocation.

If Opera is sure that the geolocation services are reporting wrong location for Opera's Americas IP's there should be actions that Opera can take, in order to correct this situation. If all else fails, perhaps Opera may need to use different Americas IP addresses.

For whatever reasons, other Proxy services do not seem to have the problem in question.

@blackbird71 I just did... It seems that the test did not reveal anything illuminating... se below... remember also that other free web proxies seems to be working as expected, from the same system

@nvmjustagirl This problem continues exactly as reported weeks ago. The Opera VPN is not working, while other free services do.

Please, try it yourself, if you think that this problem is caused by the user, somehow.

Could a member of the opera development team please answer this? I know that a moderator has given an answer, but it is unclear whether that is the official position of Opera, or just his personal position. And it does not make the problem go away, anyhow. Please, see below.

We can visit the mentioned sites from other free proxy sites without issues.

Here is proof:

Here is more proof:

Yet, if one tries from within Opera, with VPN set to Americas, the site infers the user's true location and refuses to show the geo-restricted content:

Again, if you think this problem is caused by the user, please, try it your self and let us see your results. Thanks in advance.

@leocg Sorry but I do not follow you at all. I don't know which guesses you are referring to. If the VPN service works as advertised the website can only "see" the IP provided by the Opera VPN and Nothing Else. All interaction between my computer and that website should be through the VPN server. They are not supposed to know that the VPN server is further relaying the traffic to me.
I do Not believe for one minute that the website is just looking at the IP provided by the Opera VPN and making a wild guess that they are forwarding the traffic to a true user who is based in the EU (which is correct in my case). They must be using some technical means to extract my true IP somehow.
Something isn't working. O/W, what on earth is the purpose of VPN? If these websites can do it, so can all others, which would render the VPN service pointless.
screenshot: https://ibb.co/mcBC1gY

@blackbird71 I followed you suggestion. Apparently the setting was already in the state that you suggest. I double-checked and tried the website again (from a new private window) with the same results. Whichever method they are using to determine my physical location (or true IP) seems unrelated to the WebRTC setting. Thanks anyhow.

@leocg @poolworld I opened a bug report because of a similar problem. Some US websites can detect my physical location in Europe, even when I have VPN active and set to Americas (with or without private browsing).
Here is a relevant screenshot: https://ibb.co/mcBC1gY
Here is the bug report:
https://bugs.opera.com/browse/DNAWIZ-87428
If these websites can detect the physical location, presumably so can many others. This might be a serious (perhaps life-threatening) problem for certain people, such as those living under oppressive regimes.

Virgrod