Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 7 hours agoI believe Google specifically does this to discourage VPN use. It screws up their primary reason for existing: advertising revenue.
huppakee@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
So this is just Google punishing you?
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Are you asking that because you believe a multinational companies business polices target you specifically?
huppakee@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Not always, but sounds like in this case it seems plausible
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Others report the same issue including someone commenting in this posting. From what I can tell Google is targeting private VPN servers on residential IPs.
I’ve used a different private VPN running on a commercial cloud server when traveling internationally. Google has never fucked with the location of that IP.