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Ask HN: Google suddenly locates me in a wrong country, what to do?

2 点作者 supermatou6 个月前
Hey all,<p>I&#x27;m suddenly being detected as located in a Eastern European country (I&#x27;m in Canada). This is more than just a minor annoyance:<p>-Google searches yield results in a foreign language, products are being shown in a foreign currency;<p>-I&#x27;m suddenly unable to order groceries online, as the stores use googleapis to locate me and their sites just lock-up trying to show me the nearest store; blocking googleapis results in all sorts of weird errors or messages as &quot;sorry, we don&#x27;t deliver to your location&quot;<p>What could&#x27;ve possibly generated this? on the bottom of https:&#x2F;&#x2F;google.com, the erroneous location is justified by &quot;based on your IP&quot; - but my IP belongs to a major North-American ISP, with whom I&#x27;ve been for 20 years. Weirder yet, it&#x27;s a fixed IP (second I had in the past two decades, the first one was something like 1.2.3.4, changed a few years ago to 1.2.3.5 - so rebooting the router&#x2F;modem is useless, as it will get the same IP).<p>I reported the error twice last week, using Google&#x27;s very simplified form - but nothing changed.<p>I&#x27;m stumped. Any suggestions? Right now I&#x27;m even considering switching ISPs (which I really don&#x27;t want to, as I&#x27;m very happy with my current one), although, from time to time, on the bottom of google.com&#x27;s page, the location is justified as &quot;based on your previous activity&quot; - what the devil is this? if I look up something in Mongolia, Google decides that I&#x27;m suddenly located there?!<p>I really don&#x27;t understand what could&#x27;ve lead to this -- and, especially, how to get out of this situation.<p>Also: I don&#x27;t browse&#x2F;search logged into my Google account; as a last resort I logged into Google, manually set my location to where I actually am and ran a search: nothing changed, still being detected in Eastern Europe &quot;based on my IP&quot;.<p>The only thing I can do is force redetection with &quot;Update location&quot;, but that: a) is only valid for the current device (I have several in my household) and b) lasts only a limited time.

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supermatou6 个月前
Forgot to mention: asking Google &quot;what&#x27;s my IP&quot; shows my correct IP, but the bottom of the page places it in Eastern Europe. Every other service linked on the results page locates me correctly i.e. in Canada.<p>Also: in my Google account, &quot;Where you&#x27;re signed in&quot; shows my Air, my iPhone, my Pixel and my Chromebook in the correct location (Canada, $MyCity).
supermatou6 个月前
But wait: it gets even funnier(?):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.where-am-i.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.where-am-i.co&#x2F;</a><p>which uses Google maps&#x2F;location services, places me in my correct location. Asking Google Search &quot;what is my current location&quot;, places me in Eastern Europe.<p>Go figure.
bell-cot6 个月前
Not an expert...but is there any chance your traffic has recently seen a major change, from Google&#x27;s PoV? Especially, might one of your devices have become a TOR entry&#x2F;exit node, part of a VPN, or something similar?
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bauruine6 个月前
Call your ISP it looks like some of their IPs have a wrong geolocation. Maybe they recently aquired new IPv4 addresses that where previously located in eastern Europe.
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gregjor6 个月前
That happened to me and I had to move to Thailand to resolve the problem. Google support completely useless, of course.