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[Closed] Why do websites think I'm in the USA?

 IHN
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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?


 
Posted : 22/06/2016 11:46 am
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Are you connected to a VPN?


 
Posted : 22/06/2016 11:48 am
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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.


 
Posted : 22/06/2016 11:49 am
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No VPN, ISP is Plusnet.

Anything I can do?


 
Posted : 22/06/2016 11:53 am
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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.


 
Posted : 22/06/2016 11:58 am
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Yeah the gypsy ISP we use at work has some sort of stealth location feature


 
Posted : 22/06/2016 12:00 pm
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What [b]matts[/b] said


 
Posted : 22/06/2016 12:01 pm