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Xoogler here. The way I remember this working is that it is entirely dependent on the methods of payment (MOP) associated with your account. If you remove MOP
by waych 5y ago
Xoogler here.
The way I remember this working is that it is entirely dependent on the methods of payment (MOP) associated with your account. If you remove MOPs from country A, and then 30 days later you add a MOP from country B, your underlying gaia account will have the home country migrated (affects play store, etc).
The workaround is to use different accounts, each with MOP from different countries. Pretty sure IP doesn't matter.
Regarding which legal jurisdictions apply between you and a company like Google? Well, the courts are probably not going to consider what it says in your account profile.
- dpwm 5y agoNever worked at google, but I use their services and moved country recently. > The workaround is to use different accounts, each with MOP from different countries. Pretty sure IP doesn't matter. Maybe it has changed, because this was not my experience: my methods of payments have all remained the same. It appears to be based on IP, because my transition was delayed compared to family members who moved with me because I had VPNed back to the country I had left. I’m pretty sure it was IP based, because the relative delay approximately correlated with how many days I’d used the VPN for.
- waych 5y agoManaging Terms of Service at scale is actually a real problem companies like Google face, so yeah it's entirely possible the country tracking for Terms of Service (TOS) is completely distinct from the MOP country association in Pay & Play.
- moltar 5y agoI would be an interesting corner case for them then. My account is setup as Canadian, but physically I’ve been in Vietnam for the past 1.5 years, but my home router always tunnels via Singapore. I do so on mobile often as well when I’m outside of the wifi range.
- izacus 5y agoThis seems to have been changed lately - Google account will switch it's location (but not language) by itself if it detects you're in a certain country for a long time. Happened to some people I know as well.
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