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As other people have said in exhaustive detail: where you are comes from a lot of signals other than your IP address at the VPN end of your VPN. Off the top of
by AlbertCory 4y ago
As other people have said in exhaustive detail: where you are comes from a lot of signals other than your IP address at the VPN end of your VPN. Off the top of my head: you connected to some cell tower in Mexico.
Go to google.com/history and clear out all history from all services. Go to YouTube and do the same. Clear everything from your browsers, meaning you have to log in again. If it's allowed, return the phone to its default state.
Just for good measure, power the phone off, take the battery out, wait an hour, put the battery back in, and power back up again (this part is cargo-cult, I know).
There are probably even more sanitary measures I'm missing here.
- wereallterrrist 4y agoIt happens on my unsigned in TV that has been sitting in Seattle for a year. I'm really not an idiot. Idk what else to say.
- withinboredom 4y agoI’ve tried everything but I can’t stop my google maps from randomly changing to Portugese. I went there for 5 days, years ago. I always change it back to English. It’s so frustrating.
- netsharc 4y agoI wonder which manager thought that's what the users want.. "Let's see, this user of ours has lived in the US for the last 10 years, he's never read any page in Portuguese, and he often uses Google Translate to translate Portuguese texts. But wait, he's currently in Portugal, he definitely wants us to be helpful and change the UI to Portuguese!". In the same vein, I was holidaying overseas. I wanted to book a hotel back home for a ski weekend after I return. Despite Maps knowing my home address and probably a lot of other info (like my credit card billing address), it was showing the hotel prices for in the foreign currency...