Submitted 2 weeks ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Used VPN connection to my home while in Mexico. Returned a week ago and all my devices (including those that have never been in Mexico) now show they’re in Mexico. Google’s IP correction form says it can take a month to correct.
i wouldn’t “help” them by submitting a correction. they’re the ones that assumed wrong, they can sort it out.
My neighbors (on the same Spectrum subnet) aren’t seeing this so it only affects my IP address. Google doesn’t give a crap about single user problems.
if you’ve cleared your browser histories (cookies, mainly) and it persists and bothers you, you can try to force a new ip from their dhcp. process would vary depending on what gear you have. at home, i use my own and only need to give the router a different wan mac and reboot the modem. with their gear, might need to just unplug the stuff overnight or something as i dont think you can get at the settings–hell, you need their stupid app to change the wifi password.
but like i said, i’d just let them deal with it. it probably only affects their own determination of your location. if it does spread elsewhere because they’re ‘sharing’ that data with others–just roll with it. i actually love it when we hop on a weather site or something and they’re way off, like michigan or missouri.
You sure deleting your cookies wouldn’t fix it?
Very possible it wouldn’t, but it’d be the first thing I’d try.
This happens on devices that have never been in Mexico. On those I took with me I’ve deleted cookies, cache, and used different browsers. Even allowing location on our phones and PCs and then updating the Google location on their website only is a temporary fix and as soon as cookies are cleared everything’s back in Mexico.
Bah! Ok, yeah. That’s super annoying. Hopefully they move uncharacteristically fast for you.
Hey see if netflix thinks you’re in mexico. Subscriptions services are sometimes cheaper if you sign up in other countries
This happened to me and it was insanely annoying because so much content is ‘blocked in your country’.
The fix is easy though, just logout of netflix from all devices and log back in.
I somehow got the best of both worlds and was able to sign up with Mexico netflix pricing but then when I was in the states it switched to U.S. content. I don’t know how to recreate this though.
I’ve experienced the same a couple weeks ago. But the Netherlands hasn’t been Spanish territory in almost 500 years.
They were serving you pages in Spanish? That is really fucked up.
I can help with that duckduckgo.com
It’s already my primary search engine, but unfortunately it’s not a full Google replacement.
It’s a message. “I know where you’ve been, you’re not slick. Now repent.”
Try removing any yellow filters from your screen
Orale compa! Welcome to the old changarro! My huarache es su huarache!
¡Gracias, primo! Espero verte en el malecón.
Vibes based whois DB lookup
Whois correct returns Charter Communications and every single IP location service shows a U.S. location. This is strictly Google’s fuckery.
Get a VPN. What year is it, dude?
Do you even know what network speed is? If I had the time and crayons I’d explain it to you.
Bwahahaha, remember when their company motto was “Don’t be evil?” Pepperidge Farm remembers!
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 weeks ago
Why does the browser go through all the trouble of sending out your language when Google is going to ignore it anyways?
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I believe Google specifically does this to discourage VPN use. It screws up their primary reason for existing: advertising revenue.
huppakee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So this is just Google punishing you?
MrSoup@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I don’t understand why a lot of websites go long ways into getting country from IP and then language from country instead of using directly the language reported by browser.
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
because their developers are anglobrained and think all countries all monolingual blocks
k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
A lot of Japanese websites I visit are the opposite. They look at my browser’s language setting and display everything in “English” even though I’m clearly accessing from Japan.
The problem is, their “English” sites are often machine-translated messes that I have to manually select the language. Even more annoying is when that language setting gets reset every time I click on a link.
kevincox@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
As much as I hate it, I’m 90% sure that they did some analysis (probably 10 years ago now) and found that there are enough people that don’t properly configure their computer that IP location is actually a better indicator than the
Accept-Languageheader.…which of course perpetuates the problem.