You can change what DNS resolver you use. Google used to do their own geoip location database by measuring average latency of users on /24 of resolver addresses

You can change what DNS resolver you use. Google used to do their own geoip location database by measuring average latency of users on /24 of resolver addresses. (Not the anycast resolver address, the actual dns server you hit.) There's also always google.com/ncr for no country redirect