Signing up with google says different country then VPN

[antivpn 2]

Hello, paranoid mode on

How is it possible that when I sign up with google while being connected to a swedish server, they select Germany as default country and when I select sweden I get a message saying: "Your IP address suggests you're in a different country. Once you sign up, you cannot change your country."

 

[Guest]

some servers might get routed through the DNS because of restrictions on given server. https://airvpn.org/routes/ you can check it here.

[antivpn 2]

Ok, I just checked that table it said:
 

Rastaban Sweden Uppsala Direct 0.0260 sec 200 0.0134 sec 11s ago

Now I refreshed the google page and tried to sign up again and still get Germany as default country and if I change it, it says your IP adress appears to be from a different country..
Anybody can explain this?
 

[Guest]

try to go to iplocation.net and see which country the IP is owned in, might be a problem with the datacenter

[antivpn 2]

Visited iplocation.net
All seems to be in order there they all show Sweden.

[zhang888 1067]

You should delete all your Google cookies, and make sure HTML5 geolocation is disabled.

[antivpn 2]

ok so I went to about:config
geo.enabled is set to false

any other things I should do?

im using a private window cleared all cookies.
Still the same problem persists..
btw my real IP is not in Germany so.... I have no clue why I am in Germany according to google.. (paranoid mode on: Germany is NSA headquarters of Europe

[antivpn 2]

if I go to www.blogspot.com it also reverts back to blogspot.de

[antivpn 2]

Nobody else who finds this alarming?

[Trevarn 0]

It's the same for me. Swedish server, shows german on google services.

[Earful8 8]

You should use Google's NCR (No Country Redirect) so just visit http://google.com/ncr and then add this to your browsers search things:

 

Name: Google NCR

Phrase: google ncr_

url: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&pws=0&gl=us&gws_rd=cr

 

Image: https://gyazo.com/c378de5aafdb8df75bd08d7a6da24fa1

 

You can visit blogspot.com/ncr too, I have used it because I was being redirected to Belgium sites on British VPNs, but I think it has something to do with their geo location service - I don't think it is a concern though as all of us have this issue.

[zhang888 1067]

As said many times before, Google's IP database has very serious accuracy issues.

They maintain them on their own policy, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if they are

doing this on purpose to serve their own marketing interests.

 

For example, the German traffic is probably more valuable than the Swedish one for

advertisers. So it will be better for Google to mark Swedish IPs as German in order to

show more German statistics for advertisers, and charge them by the more premium

rate. Many Latin American countries appear to be from U.S. for Google probably for

the same reason.

 

I am not sure why you find this alarming. If your real IP doesn't show anywhere in the

leak tests, you shouldn't care even if Google thinks you are in North Korea.

[antivpn 2]

That sounds like the more plausible explaination.

But if one would be paranoid you could think.. Why Germany? Why US? what a coincedence, both NSA headquarters... maybe used as datacollecting hotspots by Google/NSA routing VPN ip's to it and after that analysing the data to find out more about VPN users/traffic..


 

[Trevarn 0]

Now I also noticed Spotify plays german commercials. I check iplocation.net: shows swedish server as it should. Not sure if this is relevant.