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  • Why do websites think I'm in the USA?
  • IHN
    Full Member

    Planet-X says “do you want to set your default shipping location to the United States?’, Wiggle says “do you know you can use the wiggle.com site?”. Aaaagh, I’m in Cirencester, not Cincinatti.

    I assume it’s some browser/OS setting somewhere, but I’m b*ggered if I can find it.

    I’m on Chrome, with Windows 10. Any help?

    nixie
    Full Member

    Are you connected to a VPN?

    matts
    Free Member

    It’s your ISP. Sites guess where you are based on your IP address. Services such as GeoIP will look up your location based on known IP address ranges given out to ISPs. There are not always up-to-date, or accurate.

    IHN
    Full Member

    No VPN, ISP is Plusnet.

    Anything I can do?

    crashtestmonkey
    Free Member

    Planet X puts me in USA or France and Wiggle very occasionally offers me a foreign site but they’re the only ones that do.

    I assumed it was stealth Brexit campaigning.

    rocketman
    Free Member

    Yeah the gypsy ISP we use at work has some sort of stealth location feature

    bluebird
    Free Member

    What matts said

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