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I just took a look at this for my own account. It has me associated with India; I’m Australian, but spent just over a year in India recently. I have never recei

I just took a look at this for my own account. It has me associated with India; I’m Australian, but spent just over a year in India recently. I have never received any notification like the one cited in this article. (Perhaps because it wouldn’t affect which company service is offered through? But the laws may still differ.) And as far as Google Play Store is concerned, I’m American for some completely unknown reason, and they refuse to be convinced otherwise unless I give them credit card details; so any apps region-locked to Australia are out of my reach.

ipaddr 5y ago
How many apps get region locked to Australia?
- xyzzy_plugh 5y ago
  I'm not in Australia, but many other countries have region locked local apps. In my experience banking is a big problem, though it seems to have improved in the last few years. Local TV providers still use region-locked apps for streaming services.
  - mikelward 5y ago
    Mobile phone companies is another one. Installing the Vodafone app was (maybe still is) impossible in many countries if you're not a local.
- AnssiH 5y ago
  In addition to what siblings said: taxi apps, parking apps, food delivery apps, package delivery apps are sometimes region locked. I'm not in Australia, though.
lokedhs 5y ago
I was curious what country Google associates with me, and this is what I see: As shown in Google’s Terms of Service, your account is associated with the following country: . It seems there are things Google don't know about me, even though I'm not making this information secret.
- chrismorgan 5y ago
  Same for me, but they say “As shown in Google’s Terms of Service”, and that link https://policies.google.com/terms?authuser= https://policies.google.com/terms?authuser= does show the country (see and possibly click on the text “Country version”).
Seb-C 5y ago
The country of the Play store is not actually the same than the one this article is about. I could find a way to change it and have the local store when I moved to Japan, but honestly I don't remember exactly how. I only remember that it was a major pain in the ass to understand how to do it. I had to navigate between different applications (notably Google pay) and web interfaces to finally be able to change this setting. Worst UX ever.

ipaddr 5y ago

How many apps get region locked to Australia?

xyzzy_plugh 5y ago
I'm not in Australia, but many other countries have region locked local apps. In my experience banking is a big problem, though it seems to have improved in the last few years. Local TV providers still use region-locked apps for streaming services.
- mikelward 5y ago
  Mobile phone companies is another one. Installing the Vodafone app was (maybe still is) impossible in many countries if you're not a local.
AnssiH 5y ago
In addition to what siblings said: taxi apps, parking apps, food delivery apps, package delivery apps are sometimes region locked. I'm not in Australia, though.

lokedhs 5y ago

I was curious what country Google associates with me, and this is what I see: As shown in Google’s Terms of Service, your account is associated with the following country: . It seems there are things Google don't know about me, even though I'm not making this information secret.

chrismorgan 5y ago
Same for me, but they say “As shown in Google’s Terms of Service”, and that link https://policies.google.com/terms?authuser= https://policies.google.com/terms?authuser= does show the country (see and possibly click on the text “Country version”).

Seb-C 5y ago

The country of the Play store is not actually the same than the one this article is about. I could find a way to change it and have the local store when I moved to Japan, but honestly I don't remember exactly how. I only remember that it was a major pain in the ass to understand how to do it. I had to navigate between different applications (notably Google pay) and web interfaces to finally be able to change this setting. Worst UX ever.