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I think it's actually using location services (GPS+wifi triangulation) to determine where you are rather than traditional server-side inference from IP address.
by yeldarb 11y ago
I think it's actually using location services (GPS+wifi triangulation) to determine where you are rather than traditional server-side inference from IP address.
I'm on vacation in China right now and did some experimentation and even if I have my VPN connected the app still says it's not supported in this region.
- vbezhenar 11y agoChina is an exception here. I live in Kazakhstan, News app is not available here. But I just set my region to US and I have working News app without any problems.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoI reason it's a preëmptive block so China won't try to block the servers to prevent Chinese users pretending to be U.S. users and reading US news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10384070 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10384070 This would be consistent with that hypothesis.